Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-07-21


WASHINGTON, July 16. '94.
The alleged conference of Commit
tees from the House and Senate on
the Tariff Bill, which Is actually only
a conference between eight demo-
Gratis and the various trusts which
demand protection of their interests
In payment for past and future con-
tributions to the Democratic corrup-
ton fund, is still going on, and from
what has leaked out there has been
very lively word battles in the Com
mittee room In which the meetings
are held.
Little Mr.. Wilson, who by order
OF Mr.. Cleveland was put ct the head
of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee, got so worked up at one of
these meetings at the various de
mands made on behalf of the trusts
by the Senators that he left the
room in huff and swore he would
have nothing more TO do with It.
However after consultation with
Boss Cleveland he thought better of
1t and is again a regular attendant
of the meetings, and before the thing
Is closed will probably vote as meek
ly for what the trusts want as anv
OF bis colleagues. No Indications OF
when the legal conference, which will
be attended as by law provided bv
the entire committees appointed by
the Vlce-president and Speaker OF
the House respectively. Will begin
has been given TO the six renubIics ma
who are members of those commit
tees.
Senator Hale's resolution CALLING
attend IN TO the Irregular and iIIeoaI
status of the meetings now heing
\held may be heard from again in .
Aay that viii be both unexnactad
unpleasant to the den,ocrats
Athe trnsts. When conference
: 2|altseas were hy law provfsleta for
: s asses OF disagreement hetwaen tha
ouse aud Senate on pending leois.
E(atfon a, wac NOT with tha iDfant5o,,
that the members of the ms;oritv
party should devote DAVIS and weeks
TO bargaining and dickering with
each other Ia order to arrive at q
cut and dried agreement which
should then be sprung on the minor.
Icy and solidIy supported by the ma
jority.
On the contrary. IL was intended
that the conference should he ali
that the term impIies-a fulI and sree
discussion of the points of difference
between the House and Senate
and by all of the representa-.
tives of the House and Senate
and not by representatives ~
only the political parties that han
pen to be in the control of these bod.
les. and never until now has that In.
tention been deliberately Violated
although there have been hundreds
of conferences held. Senator Voor
hees admitted that a mistake wa,
made by not inviting the Republi
cans to be present at the first meet
ing held, but so far as known he ha,
taken no step to correct that mis-
take.
Strictly speaking those eight dem
ocrats have no legal right to tinke,
with that tariff bin In tho forced alb
sence of the six republican member,
of the conference committee. ant
their attempting to do so NAV maxi
brOuDie LOT bncm ana their party
This tariff business is a long wa,
from being settled.
Some of the democrats have sud
denly discovered that Utah will Drol
: ably go republican and SO great,
are they exercised over it that the
are actually trying to get Mr.. Cleve
a land to veto the bill for the admiss
q ion of that territory to the Union
: Mr.. Cleveland did not want the Utal
s. bill passed at this session of Con
s. gress, buS from the best obtainabl
8 Information 1t Is not probable thh
he viii veto the bill now that IL ha.
passed, as 1t would be difficult {,
find good reason for so doing.
The commission which MIR. Cleve
land has agreed to appoint unde
the act of 1888, to investigate tn
railway strike, Is not likely to secur
any very valuable information, IN
asmuch as 1t will have no authorit,
to get at the bottom of the troubl
by Investigating the causes of th
strike against the Pullman Con
pany, which was responsible for a