New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-21
AN ANOMALOUS SITUATION.
TRYING TO PLACE THE RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE HOUSES SURRENDER.
THE RANK AND FILE BLAME WILSON AND cRfsP
AND THE LATTER BLAME GoRMAN-orHERs
BLAME CARLISLE AND CLEVELAND
THE BuNCo GAME SEEMS TO HAVE
BEEN SUCCESSFULLY WORKED
fsy TELEGRAPH 10 TIE rerBrxv.s

BEEN SUCCESSFULLY WORKED
BY SOME ONE.
rHY rrrEoRApH To THE rsrBrxvs
Washington. Aug. .0-It Is apparent that the
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives. the
Democratic members Of the Committee on Ways
and Means and the Cuckoo Senators ought to
hold a conference with President Cleveland and
his Secretary Of the Treasury and agree. or At
least try to agree. upon statement that VIII
either relieve them from all responsibility on
account OF the existing and ridiculous muddle OF
tariff legislation or. II that be found impracti.
cable. TO distribute the burden OF shame ana
censure equally among themselves. Speaker
Crisp and Chairman Wilson. together with the
colleagues Of the latter. appear to think that tney
have been the victims not only Of bunco game
played by the chairman Of the Steering COM
mittee" OF the Senate. who, they affirm, promised
that the "popgun' Free Sugar bill should b
promptly passed by that body. but also OF the
weak-kneed Secretary OF the Treasury, wnose
letter Of August Is to the Finance Committee OF
the Senate destroyed the last chance ior s"0
passage OF the aforesaid bill.
AT the same time they are generously disposeo
IN acouit President Cleveland Of any response
butv and they even go so far as to express the
opinion that ne was not made fully acquainted
with the contents Of the Carlisle letter pefore ne
consented 10 it's transmission to the senate Ihsy
also assert that If they had supposed that tne
Treasur Department would have hindered tne
passage Of the "popgun' bills for free raw
materially by the Senate the House would never
have pa ssed them and thereby placed itself In the
farcical and ridiculous attitude It now occupies.
up WILSON'S EMBARRASSING SITUATION.
Probably no member Of his party In Congress
feels more keenly the embarrassments of the st.
uatlon than does the chairman OF the ways ana
Means Committee. and II IL natural that this
should be the case when one recalls the various
and contradictory attitudes that ne has occupeo
since last December. on the 18th ~ that month
he submitted A report 70 the House Of Repre-
se,,a,ives recommending free raw sugar with
duty Of a Of a cent n pound on re1ned sugar ana
a reduction Of l. Of cent a pound a year after
isee Of the bounty ,o domestic producers Of sugar
until the bounty should be extinguished Tns
House responded by placing all sugars, rehned a.
well as raw on the free list. The Senate amended
the bill by imposing a duty OF 40 per cent 40
valorem on all raw sugars. with n OF cen.
mound additional on refined sugars. plus lilo OF
cent pound on certain foreign, oounty-pa'n' TO
aned sugars. and repeating the bounty to domes-
tic producers.
IN all the conferences between the Democratic
Wilson and his colleagues stubbornly resisted thic
| amendment. and when the Senate conferrees
| offered 70 recede and make all sugars free o.
dutv Chairman Wilson and his colleagues re-
,usad that also despite the fact that u
una exactly what the House had voted py
an overwhelming majority only a few months
hef,re Then. on August 10. Chairman VIII
son moved that the House recede from in
disagreement 10 all the Senate amendments
Including the obnoxious Sugar Trust amendments
and swallow the "Bll OF Sale at single guip.
Al the same sitting Of the House. and less than
four hours later. Chairman wilson moved '"e
passage Of a bill 70 place all sugars. rehhea as
w.n az raw on the free list. and in his speech
,,c,or,i,g II declared that he was ready to vote
,,r a dutv on sugar which would yield Incl
dental protection" TO domestic producers Cha'r-
man Wilson after having boxed the pohtie@
COMPASS did not seem 10 know where ne "As
at" on the sugar question. There is no reason ~
doubt. however. that good many OF the Demo
rats wb, followed him and Speaker Crisp on that
eyentful day now honestly believe that they aiS'
were the victims Of a bunco game ana 'hA' '"s'
have a just ground for complaint
HOW THE GAME WAS PLAYED.
In the course Of the debate on the "popsun'
bills on August l3. Mr. Coombs. OF Ne"-i"A'
who had voted for the Bill Of sale maze SONS
observations which are pertinent In this re'a''"o'
Among other things ne said:
has bee been shrsei iOs sy sese "depsndcs
which we are passing to,night are p,nrsIsted upon
0 m Se sereas sSnae Tsis is 70 most charfs and
strikes the dignity and good fsi'h Q, or ' nn Would
never have voted to recede except upon es sne snS
positive assurances that we should m ssnates vons
before adjourn Congress efpec. "a tnr ro, ,1 nsy
@ 10 M 10 adjourn before they become laws
The action Of to-day by which we recene rom Gu. %
nve nc unite the deadlock existing between the
House and the Senate and to night out these otner
matters, rompcated with other articesnot
change OF 'front.' but necessary una"s s,om M The be.
This ought to have been the course ''0'" '"e
ginning. .-..
After this criticism Of the House conferrees
Nr Coombs continued Cand his remarks were
rewarded with applause" ana immense az
plause" from the Democratic sde) as follows'
nrl nd TOW 10 adjourn cannot arord TO let the Senate
adjourn. until every one OF tnese sssurances
sra ,Sr leaders OF the House gentlemen In whom
have cOnndsnSe 6sfo1e o Se the case and any
rom maj hat . would undsnhed
s ;ss nTSS S TSe
moeracy. the peoples representa,iye, S1sxs ss1rls
stay here until n1 redeem the pledges Of the party
's ,or one viii stay and make one vote to keep
auorun, OF the House here and enforce acuoh "
the Senate.
TRYING TO SHIFT THE BLAME
p~,v. words were these and yet behind them
oa,,s n have fingered suggestion that the
uouse had been buncoed or was about 70 De
huncoed by its conferrees. However unsophisu-
Gated Mr. Coombs may have seemed ne proo-
ably knew better than TO believe mat MS re.
sounding eoquence would have any practcai
enect and vet he was artful enough to nx IN
advance the responsibility OF failure upon the
Democratic leaders of the House. They' IN
turn. are trying to shoulder 1t upon the chaH-
man Of the Senate Steering Committee ana the
Secretary OF the Treasury. But Senator Miiis on
August Is in the Senate--an1 surely no Democrat
not even President Cleveland, has the right 70
n.aation hIs rty devotion or poitlcal Ortn0.