Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-14
THE HOUSE ACTION,
Senate Tariff Bill To Be the
Law Of the Land.
DECISION IN CONGRESS YESTERDAY

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separate Ellis Passed Putting Coal, Iron
Ore. Sugar and Barbed Wire on the Free
List Resolutions Adopted by the House
Caucus and tho Action Thereupder Con-
viciiOn That 1t Was the Senate Measure
or None Controls the Caucus and Crisp
Offers the Recession Resolution.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE following
resolutions. offered by Speaker Crisp him
seif, were adopted by the Democratic
house caucus:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
caucus that the order heretofore made re-
questing aconference with the senate on
the disagreeing votes of the two houses on
II. r. 4s4 he rescinded That the conferrees
heretofore appointed on the part OF the
house be discharged from further duty
in that behalf, and that the house recede
from its disagreement to the senate
amendments to said bill and agree to the
same.
Resolved. Further that the house shall
at once proceed to the consideration of
sep irate bills placing the following arti-
Giles on the free list. viz: Sugar in all its
forms, iron ore. coal and barbed wire.
The committee on rules is requested
to report an order providing for the
prompt consideration of such motion and
bills"
Explaining the Nay Votes.
A division wus taken only on the first
resolution and the vote was 100 to q.
A q tnv
members. Warner Of New York, Straus
of New York. Tracey of New York, Tars.
ney Of Missouri, Cochran of New York.
Covert of New York, Dunphy of New
York, Cooper Of Indiana. Johnson of
Ohio, kilgore of Texas. They had vari-
Gus reasons for voting nay Cochran
said it was too soon to give up hope of
agreement. The Louisiana senators OBJ
jected because the proposed bill gave no
protection to sugar and robbed it Of the
bounty. Tarsney objected to the bill for
the reasons given in the presidents letter.
The men who favored the resolution, such
as Wilson, Crisp and McNlillin, said it
was the senate bill or no bill McMillin
said the senate bill was a great deal better
than the Mckinley bill.
Rule for Rapid Work Adopted,
And so The caucus adjourned and al
most Immediately reassembled as the ma
1ority OF the house AID proceeded to put
through the programme decided on There
was full house, and the galleries were
packed. The rules committee was busy
framing the rule that would carry through
the free coal, iron ore, sugar, and barbed
wire bills proposed, while other Demo-
cratic leaders were preparing the resolu-
tons that would record the house agree
ment to the senate tariff bill 1t took
some time to get these things in shape for
It was not until 2:25 p. N. that CatchinCs,
OF the committee on rules, was recognized,
and presented the report providing for the
passage Of che tariff bill and also of the
other bills named in the caucus resolution.
1t was "rusher," giving little time for
debate. and after Reed had put in the Re-
publican protest it was adopted under the
previous question.
Moves Adoption of Senate Bill.
The special order having been adopted
Wilson moved the resolution discharrinr
the house couferrees, recedIng from the
house disagreement and agreeing to the
senate tariff bill so-called. Reed made the
point of order that the bill was not before
the house, but the bill had been bi ought in
during the roll call and the speaker pointed
to il. Reed sat down dsconsolately and
Wilson took the floor He spoke calmly,
but eloquently, the Democrats crowding
about him and listening intently to his
every word. He was loudly applauded by
his friends and was followed by Reed who
SO raised the roof" Then McMillin
took the floor. his speech being defense Of
the senate bill on the ground that it was
much better than the Mckinley bill.
McMillin's Good Points of the Bill,
The good points noted by Nc Millin were:
Free wool, free lumber, free hemp, etc,
and the reductions in the general sched-
uIes. The duties in the chemical sched-
ule of the senate bill about to be adopted.
he said, were reduced from 80 per cent.
to "A per cent; earth and earthenware
from 81 per cent. to Is per cent; metals
and metal manufactures from So to 81 per
cent; wood and wood man ufac.ures from
81 TO %: tobacco. III to les: cotton, 81 to
~; flax, hemp and jute, Is to Al; wool and
wooiens, 9S to 49, silk and silk manufac-
lures, SO to A.; pulp and paper, % to %;
,ndries from 26 to "a; total reduction,
from IS per cent. to 50 per cent. McMii-
lin eulogized especially the principle III
volved in the income tax provision, which
taxed not what people consumed, but
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