The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-22

appointed to the vacancy on the finance
committee,s and finally adjourned without
transactlng any business OF Importance
- The house was not in session.
SATURDAY.-The senate, by vote OF
nearly Two to one decided that it is i'm
practicable to attempt TO pass at this ses-
sion any bills which may be contested. The
sixteen negative votes were cast by ex-
IRENE democratic free traders. The reso-
lntlon which was adopted was the resolu-
Ilon OF the republican caucuses Of Friday.
IL was accepted by Senator Murphy of New
YORK as modification Of his own amend
inent which, in that it made more positive
declarations on the tariff question, was
deemed inexpedient, and az likely to com
Ilanu smaller vote than was given for the
resolution which did pass. The action of
the senate is accepted by both parties in the
senate as equivalent to a declaration that
none OF the pop-gun bills shall be consid.
cred at this session. Upon that assumption
many OF the senators who have remained I'M
til now have left the city: and there is no ex.
pectation that there will be a quorum dur
ing next week, even il the president deems
it expedent to hold congress until August
q, in order to permit the sugar trust 10
bring some more of their sugar-aden yea
sells to port, and the whskey trust to take
more whiskey from bond, in order that they
may profit from the trust bill Mr.. Sher-
man OF Ohio gave the senate what he
called " little plain talk" Among other
things he said he recognized the great abil-
lty OF the democratic members OF the tinancs
committee, but said that they had been
guilty OF three essential and fatal mistakes.
The first was that they had undertaken to
pass tariff bill through the senate without
any conference with the finance committee
as whole. That was a fatal mistake.
Another mistake was that the republican
members Of the conference committee had
not been consulted. There had been over
6OO amendments adopted in the senate, and
there had been no examination OF them in
conference, except perhaps between the fas-
lions OF the democratic party. II the 70
publican conferrees had been consulted, there
would have been less discord and less con-
| tentlon; and 80 very many mistakes would
not have been left in the bill passed. These
mistakes were calculated to create great
embarrassment and trouble. There had
been already four or five bills introduced
to amend bill that had not yet been signed
by the president. Such thing had never
occurred before; and,it would not have oc-
CURED now, had it not been for the manner
of conducting business to which it had
reference. - The house was not in ses-
sion
MoNDAY.-Several pop-gun bills were
again presented to the senate by the finance
committee, but no final action was taken on
them. The senate passed the house joint
resolution instructing the secretary OF war
to return1 to the state OF Massachusetts
the regimental flags OF the 18th, 10Th, 23d
and 58th regiments of Massachusetts, volun-
teer infantry as requested by the governor
of that state; senate bill to require the
prompt prosecution and speedy determine
ton of the claim OF the United States against
the estate of the late Leland Sanford. The
senate adjourned till Wednesday. In
the house, Mr.. McCreary, chairman of the
committee on foreign affairs, presented tho
substitute for Mr.. Boutelle's resolution roo
ognizing the Hawaiian republic, with re-
quest for its immediate consideration. On
the suggestion Of several members, it went
over to some future day.