Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-07

fore any action has been taken or any bad
olood stirred.
Comment In the senate.
The publication of Senator Voorhees, in
terview. taking position for free coal and
iron ore created an air of expectancy about
the Senate upon assembling today. but the
questions raised by him were not referred
TO in the official proceedings. The publica-
ton the subject of general comment
In the cloak rooms ana corridors, and the
comments were as varied as the predictions
or prejudices of those by whom they were
uttered.
If the interview had any effect upon the
tariff conferees the fact could rot be as
certained, and the best Information is to
the effect that II was only casually referred
to, and that the committee went on with
Its work as IL the chairman of the Senate
conferees had not taken a public position
In direct opposition to that main .ainsd by
mis- felow-members of the Senate committee
on the question of coal and iron ore duty.
which was then under consideration. The
Senators present did not show any indica-
ton OF disposition to follow the chair
man 20 a greater extent than they had ex-
hibited the day before when they proposed a
time limit on these articles. On the con-
trary. they held out apparently more stiffiy
for these terms than they had done before
The House Fails to Answer.
The House members of the conference
failed to give any definite answer to the
Serate proposition. as it was understood
they were to do today, consequently when
the conference dispersed the adjustment
of the differences was to all appearances as
far OF as IL had been at the time of ad-
journment Monday.
The morning session was not a long one
and after it broke up Senators Jones and
Vest were cfoseted for quite a time with
Senators German and Smith. The supposi-
ton rs current that they were canvassing
the situation affected by the inter yiew
but the result Of their deliberations cannot
be learned Their plans probably depend
largely upon the result of the House eau
GUS
Proposed Caucus Resolutions.
Messrs. Bynum and Springer conferred at
noon and drafted the resolution as the
basis of the caucus action 1t is conserva-
tive In tone and avoids criticism. 1t does
not direct the House conferees to recede
from their positions. but urges that they
reach speedy agreement. y provision Is
also AIDE that II this agreement Is not
enec5eC by Friday next there shall be an
other caucus on the afternoon of that day
to consider what further action shall be
taken. IL first thought that Chair
man Wilson's friends would present a sub
stttute for the foregoing directing the House
conferees to resist the Senate to the last,
but after consultation II was decided not
to introduce a substitute resolution but to
vote down the Bynum-Springer resolution
and let that show the attitude of the House.
May Put Sugar ON the Free List.
Conservative democratic Senators guard
edly admit that there IL a founda ton for
the report which has been current about
the Senate during the day that move
ment may be made soon looking to put
ting sugar on the free list. One of them
said today that It was liable to come in the
shape Of motion to discharge the tarlH
conferees and to have the Senate recede
from its amendments on sugar. He thought
1t probable that such a motion would be
made soon unless the conferees come to
understanding.
The republican side Of the chamber has
been Cautiously canvassed on this project.