The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-08
BYNUM oTrEus RESOLUTIONS.

" ti'tNttNt AAhuht bllt tN0f, ADl Ife reduction
OF taxation. and 70 provide for the govern
! ment, passed the House on the Ist day OF
! Ecbruary, and the Senate on the 81 day OF
5ulF and was sent to conference on the 7th
DAY OF July last, and,
Whereas, The commercial interest OF the
country has been held I'm suspense awaiting a
hnal settlement OF the question. and,
/ Wheroas, The people Of the whole country
| nave, through the public press and by petit
lions ana memorials to both houses of con
gress. demanded a speedy decision that tho
industries may, as soon as possible, be ad.
| Justed to the proposed changes. and,
| whereas, Conicrees appointed by the two
houses TO hold fun and free conference over
! the ulsagreong votes OF the two houses have
had the matters In dispute under eousidera
/ tlon for one month, and have failed to come
toaRy agreement whatever and,
! whereas, The House Of Representatives
! winch, under the constitution OF the United
| states, Is clothed with the exclusive power to
9rlsln9te bills raising revenue, and is there.
fore clothed with the right TO pass upon all
/ amendments proposed by the Senate freely
and without restraint, and,
| . whereas, The members Of the House OF
| Representatives have not availed themselves
| OF an opportunity to consider said Senate
| amendments, or any OF them, which right.
under parliamentary law, IS superior to all
! others; and,
Whereas II Is currently believed that said
| conferees are unable to agree; therefore be it
! Resolved, That It is the sense of this caucus
| that the democratic Conierecs Of the House
ana senate should meet In spirit OF liberal
! ity, TO the end that the two houses, by mutual
| concessions may agree upon measure which
! VIII meet the approval OF each.
! Second, That this caucus stands ad lourned
| nntl ! O'Clock Friday, Aug. 10, at which
! time, Ia case no agreement has been reached,
| II shan reconveue to take such further action
! IN the premises ns 10 may deem necessary
| and appropriate; and the chairman OF the
| House caucus is hereby authorized and di-
rected 70 invite the democratic senators 10
| meet with the democrats OF the House at that
| time in Joint caucus.
LIVINGSTON OFFERS A SUBSTITUTE.
Mr.. Livingston offered the following as
a substitute for MIR. Bynum's resolution.
Resolved, That we have unlimited conH-
| dence in the House cOnferees and request
| them to present tariff bill that will meet the
1 pledges and principles Of the party and the
! platform OF 1899.
In the discussion Of these rules, Chair
man Wilson Of the ways and means com
mtttee said he was glad of an opportunity
TO meet the democrats in council, but
might not have selected this time for the
purpose. He did not consider H. fortunate
Just at this time, when the situation was
| most critical, last week and this week
that the call for a caucus should be held
over the House couferees. As far as
| Representative Bynums resolution was
! concerned, he said, IL expressed exactly
| what the conferees had been doing and
were now doing Referring TO the merits
of the two measures Mr.. Wilson said that
| bilb ilOubb ulil UIONGQ 10 DC uttOUbhDIb TO
the people, while the Senate bill APP
parently had not.
MUST PASS A BILL.
He appreciated the necessity of the
| democrats passing some bill, hut IL was
not desirable that the bill should be one
which would put the democrats upon the
defensive. He expressed the opinion that
If necessary more than month might be
well spent In reaching an agree
ment upon proper bill. Ia
conclusion Mr. Wilson said that this was
the feeling of all of the House
conferees, and that they desired
10 carry out the programme along
the lines indicated But he
intlmated that II the present conferees
| did not represent the wishes of the ma
iority of the democrats In the House,
they would willingly give way TO others
Mr., Wilson spoke with great earnestness
and much feeling, and his remarks were
greeted with applause
c. r. Breckenridge of Arkansas, mem
Der Of the committee on ways and means,
| who has been present at nearly all of the
| meetings Of the Democratic conferees,
assured the caucus that the House CON
ferees had not set up any ultimatum on
any one schedule, as had been reported,
but they were at work with their senate
rial associates In the effort to secure an
CRISP TAKES THE FLOOR.
Then Mr. Bynum and Mr.. Livingston
suggested several changes In their re-
speotive resolutions, but before anything
definite was accomplished by the caucus
Speaker Crisp was recognized and took
the floor. The speaker said he was glad
that the caucus had been called. It gave
! the democrats an opportunity OF
meeting and expressing their sentl-
ments. He always attended democratic
caucuses, he said, and was willing to be
bound by their decision. He thought 10
! inadvisable 10 adjourn the caucus 20 an
! other fixed day; caucus could always be
| called whenever it was necessary. II a
reassembling Of the caucus was fixed for
! Friday Of next week 1t would be equiv
alent TO saying to the conferess: "If you
| don't agree by that time we shall instruct
| you what TO do. II we are going TO in
struct them to agree to the Senate
amendments we might as well do 1t now
TO STICK 1T OUT.
Mr. Crisp said ne was confident that
| the House would stay here thirty, sixty or
| even ninety days rather than to go home
without securing the passage Of salts
| factory and acceptable tariff bill The
effects of tho Bynum resolution If IL passed
would be TO take the House from
| behind It's conferees and impress the
Senate conforees with the fact that
| all they had TO do would be to
wait week and the House conferees
would come 20 them. The House confer
eGs he said, were entitled to the same
support the Senate had 80 far given IT'S
| conferees. The conferees were waiting
! TO secure an agreement and no other
action was necessary. Let them alone
! There are thirty-eight men in the Senate
who favor the House bill. We all want
10 go home, but while we are waiting for
! the right kind Of a bill we can best serve
our country by staying here.
! MORE THAN THREE ITEMS AT STAKE.
He went on to say that coal, iron ore
| and sugar we're not the only important
| items In the bill. The Senate had in
creased the rates in nearly all Of the
schedules, and many concessions would
! be secured on these II the conferees were
! permitted 10 continue their work. Ho
| hoped for the reasons stated that no reso-
! luton would be passed, inasmuch as Mr..
! Wilson was still hopeful Of an agreement.
! He himself was inclined 20 the belief that
/ the agreement would be made inside Of
| two weeks, and that, too, upon "a repors
/ that would pass both houses
A moment later a voice was heard
| saying: whats the use OF doing any
| thiLg!'