Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-08


 them to present tariff bill that will meet the pledges and principles of the campaign and platform of 1892.
 In the discussion of these resolutions Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee said he was glad of an oppor. tunity to meet the democrats in council,
 but would not have selected this time for the purpose.
 He did not consider 1t fortunate just at the time when the situation was most crit cal, last week and this week, that the call for caucus should be held over the house conferees. As far as BSnum's resolution
 was concerned he said it expressed exactly
 what the conferees had been doing and
 were now doing. Referring to the merits of the two measures MT. Wilson said that the house bill proved to be acceptable to
 the people, while the senate bill appar-
 enty had not.
 He appreciated the necessity of tue dem
 ocrats passing some bill, but it WAS not de-
 sirable that that bill should be one which
 would put the democrats upon the defen
 eive. He expressed the opinion that If
 necessary more than 8 month might be
 well spent in reaching >an agreement upon
 proper bill. In conclusion MT. Wilson
 said that this was the feeling of all the
 house conferees and that they desired to
 carry out the programme along the line
 indicated. But he intimated that if the
 present conferees did not represent the
 wishes of the majority of the democrats in
 the house they would willingly give way to
 others. MT. Wilson spoke with great
 earnestness and much feeling, and bis re-
 marks were greeted with applause.
 MT. c. k. Breckinridge Of Arkansas,
 member of the committee on ways and
 means. who has been present at nearly all
 of the meetings of the democratic confer ees, assured tue caucus that the house con-
 ferees had not set up any ultimatum on
 any one schedule, AS had been reported,
 but that they were at work with their sen- atorial asso ciates in the efforts to secure an agreement all along the line.
 MT. Bynum and MT. Livingston sug-
 gested several changes in their resolutions, but before anything definite was accom- plished by the caucus Speaker Crisp was recognized and took the floor. The speaker said he was glad that the caucus had been called. It gave the democrats an oppor- tunity of meeting and expressing their sem tineuts. He always attended democratic caucuses, he said, and was willing to be bound by their decisions. He thought 1t inadvsable to adjourn the caucus to an- other fixed day; caucus could always be called whenever it was necessary, If re- assembling of the caucus was fixed for Friday next it would be equivalent to say l ing to the conferees: eff you don't agree | by that time we shall instruct you what to do." Are we going to instruct them to l agree to the senate amendments? If so we | might as we'll do 1t now.
 Speaker Crisp said be was confident that | the house would stay here thirty, sixty or l even ninety days rather than to go home l without securing the passage of a satisfac- 1 tory and acceptable tariff bill. The effect l of the Bynum resolution if passed would 1 be to take the house from behind it's con- l ferees and impress the senate conferees | with the fact that all they had to do would l be to wait week and the house conferees l would come to them. The house couferees, l he said, were entitled to the same support | the senate had so sar given it's conferees. | The couferees were waiting to secure an | agreement a no other action was neces- | sary. Let them alone. There are thirty l eight men in the senate who favor the l bouse bill. We all want to go home, but while we are waiting for the right kiud of l bill we can best serve our country by 1 staying here.
 | He went on to say that coal, iron ore and l sugar were not the only important items in 1 the bill. The senate had increased the | rates on nearly all of the schedules, and 1 many concessions would be secured on these | if the conferees were permitted to continue | their work. He hoped for the reasons 1 stated that no resolution would be pass ,d {, 1 inasmuch as MT. Wilson was still hopeful 1 of an agreement. He himself was inclined | to the belief that the agree ment would be made inside of two weeks, and that, too, upon a report u at would pass both houses. A moment later voice was heard; {; 'Whats the use Of doing anythingP' Speaker Crisp-Well, If it's agreeable on all sides; 1 am ready to move that the eau GUS do now adjourn.
 Thereupon Bynum and Livingston with drew their resolutions and the caucus ad- journed sine die.
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