The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-06
THEY DREAD THE CONTEST.
MANAGERy OF THE TARIFF BILL
 ARE IN 4 QUANDARY.

AAS 4N A yOhNDaA1.
 Republican Senators win Try to Even Pre-
 vent 1t From Getting on the President,
 Tabio-Thsre is Great Unensincss In Re
 gard to it.
 Washington. Aug 5.-The presen week will probably seal the fate of thu tariff bill. The democratic member, met in an informal manner to-day. ant again went over the bill, agreeing hert and there to tentative changes in tho hope that they could be hastened to 6 conclusion. The senatorial contingent of the conference were unable to as sure their colleagues of the house that the new sugar schedule would be ac. ceptable to the senate, and secure the forty-three votes necessary. The dis. cussion in conference to-day. however indicated that all parties recognized thf necessity of making an early report of some kind. The senate conferees de. cline to indicate what the nature of that report will be.
 One member said there could be no compromise on coal and iron, and If the house oonferees insisted upon the house bill as regards these items there would soon be a disagreeing report. cession on these items.
 The parliamentary status of the bill Is giving its managers some uneasiness The bill is now in the possession of the senate. The house can take no action until after the senate has acted, and it Is the possible result in the senate that causes the uneasiness. Some conserva- tive democrats who have heretofore up- held the house bill are now condemning the deadlock. Could these men get a chance to vote on the bill 1t Is believed they would override their conferees and hasten the end of the struggle. What ever may be the conclusion reached by the conferees the report must first go to the senate.
 How long 1t will take the bill and the conference papers to get back to the house after the matter is again opened in the senate no political augur can foretell A disagreeing or an agreeing report Is bound to renew the whole field of debate. The wool, metal and cotton schedules are said to be as difficult of solution as the other three schedules around which so much political i'm portance clings. Senators Smith and Murphy have resisted from the first any serious encroachment upon the woolen and cotton schedules, while, it is said, the retention of the iron and metal achedules&pta is the price of the silance of certl ' ssnators, and should these be ordered reduced, will at once resume dilatory tactics and insist upon talking the report to death.
 The situation may be briefly summed up. The house insists upon material concessions upon coal and iron ore, the senate refuses absolutely to give more than reciprocity no coal. MT. German will not listen to any proposi- tion. looking to graduated upon these materials. orthat the duty be left as it is with with the proviso that 1t shall expire in three years, and iron ore then be transferred to the free list. The houes conferees will agree to the sugar schedule recently made publi on the basis, and the sugar senators, so called, have accepted it. The Louis- iana senators and Senators Allen and Kyle will not support it, and these four votes, together with those of MT. Hill, and probably MT. Kirby, would defeat the bill.
 With the sugar schedule as it is now the senate was able to pass the bill only by g. very narrow margin, and that, too, as is now claimed, in the be- lief, on the part of the Louisiana sena- tors, that the bounty was to be given them in conference. The bounty hav- Ing been receive. 1t is problematical if the democrats could get the bill through again if not an item were changed. The on 8 part of the senate recog- nize the dilemma in which they find and naturally dread the contest which must come. In addition to this 1t was understood yesterday that 1t least fifteen republicans had bound themselves by tacit agreement that when the conference report again came nto the senate they would use every means in their power to prevent the pill from ever getting off the presidents able. This. of course, means more fili- ,,,u% arSp0