Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-08-03
NEW YORK DAILIES
Give the Opinions Of Washing
ton Correspondents
CONCERNING THE TARIFF BILL
Quarrel Between the President and His
Party Friends In the Senate Has
Aroused tho Interest Feeling Among
Democratic Factions.

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Democratic Factions.
NEW YoRK, July 2S.-President Cleve-
lands letter, Senator Gorman's bitter
attack upon the Chief Executive and
HilPs reply have SO entirely changed the
aspect Of the tariff bills chances of pas
sage that there is diversity Of opinion
among the Washington correspondents
OF the more influential New York dailies
as to the ultimate fate Of that measure.
The majority, however, take gloomy
view OF the situation. The following are
some Of the expressions OF opinion asa
The World: The quarrel between the
President and his party friends in the
Senate has aroused the bitterest feeling
and out Of Congress, and is generally re-
garded as the greatest misfortune that
could have happened to the Democratic
party at this time. What its effect will
be upon the tariff bill cannot be deter
mined yet. 1t seems almost certain,
however, that, If any tariff bill is to be
passed at this session, the House must
yield to the Senate. This must necessa-
riiy be so in the Senate, for three or four
Democratic Senators can defeat any
measure which they do not care to sup
port, and in view OF Germans announce
ment that, If the Senate amendments
are materially changed, the bill will be
defeated, there seems to be no way in
which the differences between the two
Houses can be reconciled. The failure,
moreover, of the Presidents attempt to
conciliate German and induce him to
bring about a peaceful settlement Of the
controversy on some other basis than
that OF the adoption Of the Senate bill
serves TO indicate that the prospect for
harmony between the two Houses is not
bright.
| The Times: II the sugar trust would
take its hands off OF this Congress and
release the Senators who are now disa-
bled by it from discharging their duties
rs the constitution calls upon them to do
and as the people demand they shall, the
tariff bill would be agreed upon by the
conference committee in few days, and
it would be bill free from any sugges-
tion that its leading schedules were
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less to caucus, for, whatever the caucus
may do, the potent few, who are under
stood to be hopelessly tied up and in
danger of being utterly disgraced II they
do not persist in remaining bought, can
not accept any conclusions reached by
the majority.
The Recorder: There is scarcely
| member OF the House who is not con-
vinced that the Senate means what it
says; that 1t will accept no bill but the
| compromise measure that was passed
4 there. In the House side there is dis
Icouragement and foreboding OF defeat.
The members say it will probably be q
short fight now, that the House will
Weld, but the President is not ready to
give up the struggle vet. II looks to-day
as though the House is almost willing to
yield, and that the contest may come to
an end sooner than has been expected.
There is uncertainty about the Senate's
position, and Gorman's shrewdness in
throwing upon the House the RESPONSE
bility for no tariff legislation, II such is
the outcome Of the struggle, is bearing
fruit. The courage OF the members OF
the House has sadly weakened since last
week. They have all listened to the
Senate oratory. and have been deeply
impressed by it and the Senators claim
tonight that the end is in sight, and
the end will be the Senate bill.
The Herald: Dangers from open foes
and pretended friends surround the con-
; ference report on the tariff bill in the
Senate on every hand, and it will require
cool brains and steady hands to steer ii
back into the conference committee
again without total shipwreck. The
friends of the bill are very much alarmed.
. The tremendous racket the Senate has
stirred up over the conference report has
frightened some of the members of the
other House who have heretofore been
in favor OF holding out, They are afraid
: that the Senate may vote to indefinitely
. postpone the tariff bill and thus deal q
death blow to tariff reform by this Con.
gress. There has been talk emanatine
from high Democratic sources in favor
I OF calling the conference report to the
, House, so that the Senate's amendments
n could be agreed to at once and the meas
ure could be sent before the country
with at least the title OF "A Bill TO Re
duce Taxation" What these men arr
afraid OF is that the Senate will adop
some sort OF motion to instruct the
conferrees to yield on some pet item. o
protection that some individual Senate
] esteems more highly than party prin
ciples. Many members of the Hous,
D are not at all frightened by the noise il
the Senate. They say 1t is simply tn,
last "bluff" OF the Senatorial conspira
, tors, and if the House stands firm, i
I can win complete victory. 1t i
scarcely probable that either side will
win complete victory under the cir
\ cumstances, and present Indications seen
to point to a compromise. The compro
mise talked Of contemplates lower dutie
on coal and iron ore and remodeling Q
the sugar schedule, with an ad valoren
$ duty only ranging from 42ls to 45 pc
cent. 1t Is probable that in return 70
:. the concessions the House would max
Y to the Senate in these items the Hous
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