Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-03
TO STAND FIRM.
House and Senate Conferees
Faithful to Their Res
peCtiVe Bills.
IT LOOKS LIKE A DEADLOCK.
The Sugar Schedule Alone
Proving the Bone of
Contention.

WASHINGTON, July 3O.-There has
been no meeting of the Democratic con-
ferees on the tariff bill since the ad-
journment at 1870 Saturday, and the
Democratic managers on the part of the
senate are as yet uninformed as to what
will be the purport of the reply which
the Democratic managers in behalf of
the house will make in response to the
senate's position that the conference
must accept the senate bill.
Having at the Saturday meeting made
plain to the house members of the con-
ference why this demand on their part
had to bn made and why it should be
accepted. the senators have since given
very little attention to tariff affairs and
say, when spoken to, that there is moth
ing for them to do until the house men,
bers make known their
Acceptance or Rejection
of the proposition. If it be accepted
they think the report can be made after
brief conference; if rejected they say
they see no reason for long parley, as
under the circumstances, they cannot
abate their demands without endanger-
ing the passage of the bill in the senate
The senate conferees have said to those
of the house that to strike out the diff
ferential on the sugar probably loses
seven votes in the senate and also that
1t is important that coal and iron ore
should remain in the bill as arranged in
the senate.
1t does not appear that any difficulty
has arisen over coal and iron ore in the
present conference, and the house mem
bers have indicated a willingness to
leave them as agreed upon in the senate
if the sugar schedule can be changed so
as to eliminate the special duty of II of
1 q centson refined sugars. This is the
only question Of real contention, and
the senators are apparently
Determined to Stand Firm
for the retention of the differential.
Furthermore, they do not appear to be
holding out for the senate schedule
purely on the ground Of expediency, but
they also contend for the justice of the
proposition to give protection to the re.
tiners. When Chairman Wilson of the
house managers advanced the PROPOSE
tion on Saturday that the ad valorem
rate of 40 per cent would, on account of
the difference in the market price of
raw and refined sugars, give the refners
an advantage of about II of cent a
pound, he was replied to very sharply
by the senate conferees, some of whom
displayed figures to prove the contrary,
while others said the proposition was
too absurd for argument. 1t looks
Very Much Like Deadlock
unless tho house :conferees yield, as
there is no indication of any purpose on
the part Of the senators to do SO. The
senate conferees talk frankly about the
situation and plant themselves firmly
upon the proposition that the sentiment
in the senate is such that it must be the
senate bill or no bill.
The decision which the senators are
awaiting will be flat refusal on the
part Of the house conferees to yield to
the senate demand in whole or in part.
The determination to give this negative
response has been agreed on definitely
by the house conferees. It had been ex-
pected that the intense feeling of the
last week
Would Clear the Atmosphere
and lead to some common ground of
agre 2ment, but when the house con.
ferees were met by demand to yield in
toto on sugar, coal and iron, they. as.
sumed an equally aggressive and deter.
mined stand. At their meeting each OF
the four house members were asked to
state if his views had changed in any
way since the former conferences. It
developed that not one of the four had
modified his views in the slightest.
They were, therefore, unit in declin.
ing to accede to the demand of the -four
senate conferees, and the solid front OF
opposition will be made known to the
senators in the morning.
As TO SORGHUM SYRUP.