The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-07
Lively Time Predicted if Mr.. Wilson and
the AdministratiOnists Attempt
to Capture the Caucus.
SITUATION MORE CRITICAL
Senator German Threatens to
Vote for Free Raw Sugar.
President Cleveland Using Federal Pat
rOnage to Sway Legislators-VOOr-
hees Changes Front Again.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Congressman
Bynum has shouldered big load. To-mor-
row will probably settle his political fate.
Springer's humiliating failure last week in
his attempt to strip Wilson of mis- yellow
jacket has not discouraged Bynum from
undertaking to accomplish the same object.
He has undertaken to force Wilson and
his House conferees to report to the House
an agreement or disagreement and give
the House a chance to settle the differences
between the two houses. Springer failed to
get a caucus, but Bynum has succeeded
1t now remains to be seen whether BynUm
can control it tomorrow. The Wilson men
claim that they will capture Bynums
Gus, indorse Wilson, and thus crush out
further opposition TO the House conferees.
They say that Wilson capture the eau
Gus by one of his hurrah speeches, and that
there will be nothing left of the Eynum
crowd when the caucus adjourns. Bynum
however, did not go into this movement
without counting noses. He knows that if
he fails he will have a hard road to travel
1t was only when such men as General
Black, Patterson and Enloe, of Tennessee,
and Bailey, of Texas, urged him to so
ahead that Bynum took the lead again. The
majority of the Northern Democrats are
with him. If Bynum can control the eau
Gus the House will take hold of the Senate
amendments, and vote will be taken upon
them. There is no doubt that the Repre-
sentatives are restless over the star-cham-
Der proceedings of the House conferees, and
that a large majority are with Bynum, hut
the administration will drive many away
from him. If Wilson goes into the caucus
and becomes too personal, it is predicted
that there will be a hot time over Wilson'S
previous record on coal and iron. Wilson
opposed free coal and iron ore when the
Mills bill passed in the last Congress. Will
son also fought against placing coal and
iron on the free list, and Springer proposes
to let out some committee secrets showing
Wilson's action while a member of the last
ways and means committee.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Within fifteen minutes from the time the
House caucus petition was circulated to-
day fifty members had signed and the cau-
Gus became a certainty. Members who had
not wanted to sign last week were now
anxious to do so. The petition requests
Chairman Holman to call the caucus for
O'Clock tomorrow Ito consider what action
if any should be taken in order TO secure
tition is not the one formerly circulated by
Representative Springer, although the lat
ter is interested in the new move. The call
in response to a petition signed by
fifty-three members of the House. Among
the signers were Representatives Springer,
Bynum, Black of Illinois, Hooker, Geary,
DeForest, Enloe, Brickner, Washington,
English. Bailey, Patterson, Sperry Allen,
McNagny, Martin Mcguire and Capehart.
The petition had been circulated by Mr.. By
mum, of the ways and means committee,
and the success of the move was secured
within half an hour from the time the pc
tition started.
Intense feeling was developed as soon as
the caucus move began. Members gathered
in the Hobbies and talked eXcitedly for and
against the caucus. Representatives Strauss,
Warner and others friendly 10 the admin
istration denounced il as a fire in the
rear Neither Speaker Crisp nor Chair
man Wilson had been consulted as TO the
caucus, and it was recognized as directly in
opposition to their wishes.
Representative OuthWaite, an associate of
Speaker Crisp on t1e committee on rules,
said: THE caucus is not indorsed by the
committee on rules or by the confereeS. 1t
is evidently move against the House con-
ferees. Members of the rules committee
will probably enter the caucus, but i eX-
pect the conferees will remain away, in
view of the fact that reverse action by the
caucus would be equivalent TO a vote of
want of confidence"
Representative Strauss, close friend OF
Mr.. Wilson, expressed the opinion that the
caucus would prove a boomerang. He be-
and their friends would attend the caucus
and undertake TO carry 1t. With such men
as Speaker Crisp. Chairman Wilson
Bourke Cochran and others urging loyalty
to the House conferees, Mr.. Strauss did not
think an antagoniStic resolution would pass
Mr.. Strauss said also that he expected the
caucus would bring out some startling con-
ference secrets which would insure the con-
ferees support from the House.
Messrs. Springer and Bynum make no
concealment of the fact that the caucus is
the purpose of ending the contest Dy
accepting the Senate bill. In this cOnnec-
tion they quote a statement made 10 them
by Senator Mills to the effect that further
House resistance meant the killing of all
ariff pcriSi