Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-03
The Democratic Senators Hoping to
Get One Today.
LIKELY TO GETIN CONFERENCE MONDAY
Senators Making Their Final
Speeches on the Tariff,
THE PROBABLE CONFEREES

before adjournment today, but this Will be
very difficult of accomplishment. The fight
over the wool and WOODEN schedule has
taken up SO much of the day, and there
has been such disposition to talk, that 1t
would take extraordinarily active work
during the latter part of the afternoon to
finish up what is left and get final vote,
even II a night session were held. The Sem
ate does things very rapidly by spurts.
however. and 1t is possible that they may
get things through with a rush after two
or three amendments with talk in them
are disposed of. The fighting spirit was
very pronounced today from the very start.
and Dolph went so far as to say that 1t
would be two or three days yet before u
vote on the bill as a whole could be had.
There appears to be no question whatever
that the bill will pass when the vote Is
had. but some Senators like to get rid of
their surplus energy even when nothing is
to be accomplished by SO doing.
In Conference by Monday.
1t Is not likely that the bill will get into
conference before Monday. When 1t gets to
the House it will lie over one day. AMI then
be referred to the ways and means commit
tee. There it will probably not be held long.
but be reported back almost at once with a
recommendation for non-concurrence and a
conference. 1t Is not expected that there
will be much, If any, debate at this stage.
but that the bill will be sent to conference
at once. There are many members who have
some things to say about the Senate
amendments. and there will be very
spirited debate at the proper time. This
will probably come when the first confer
ence report Is received.
How the Conference Will Proceed.
There is question as to how the con-
ference will be proceeded with. The con-
ference committee might agree on some Of
the questions at issue and report back to the
two houses this agreement and ask fur
ther conference on the amendments still in
dispute. They might, on the other hand,
report disagreements on everything until
every disputed question Is settled. The first
plan would gradually eliminate the issues
and narrow the fight down to a few amend
nients, centering attention upon these, and
the committees would be going in and out
OF their respective houses from time to
time with reports and receiving instructions
as TO particular amendments.
II Is believed thai the Senate will prefer
the other plan, for the reason that with
all the amendments kept in disagree nent
together there will be more left to the last
minute to trade on. and the centering of
attention to certain amendments which will
be vital to the controversy, but which II
would be perhaps awkward for certain
Senators to stand out for alone. would then
be avoided. Sugar, for instance, can go
much better in the crowd Of other amend
ments than 1t could If left finally as the
only question in dispute.
The Probable Conferees.
1t is believed that there will be seven
conferees from each house. as there were in
the consideration Of the Mckinley bill In
that event Wilson, McMillin, Turner and
Montgomery will probably be the democrats
representing the House. Harris, Jones and
Vest will be the democratic end of the Sem
q nnn far0 Sft .r,I
seven committee there will have to be one
more democrat. 1t Is said that Mr.. Voor-
hees does not want to serve. Should he de-
cline there would be only Mr.. Mcpherson
LETT OF the democrats on the committee. He
would not be the choice of the reform ers
for a place on this committee and would
probably not be appointed 1t Is the Gus
tom to take the conferees from the finance
and the ways and means committees, but
this does not have to be DONE and the
chances are that IL there is a committee Of
seven and Mr.. Voorhees, does not want to
serve Mr.. Mills will be made me OF the
Senate conferees.
Senator Harris Waiting.
Senator Harris is in a waiting mood to-
day. Someone of his colleagues quoted
Shakespeare this afternoon to express the
case with the veteran parliamentarian OF
the democratic side. He was described as
sitting, Like Patience. on a monument,
! Harris to see the precious minutes slip by
while the tongues wagged, and he could do
nothing to hasten the vote on the tariff bill
The Senate went at the bill Immediately
after 10 o'clock, and two votes were taken
in such short order that 1t began to look as
though the final test on the bill itself might
come in time for the readers of the regular
edition of The Star to read it this evening
But the bill then struck an obstacle in the
form of the wool schedule and there was a
blockade almost as bad as that at Blue
Island.
Many Speeches Delivered.
Speech after speech was delivered. Mr..
Sherman talked for long time then Sem
ator Stewart denounced the gold bugs and
bewailed the fate of silver. Mr. Hoar ex-
ecrated the foul outrage" perpetrated by
the bill on American Industries, and Mr.
Higgins raised nice row by berating the
silver republicans for not filibustering Mr.
Dolph, who never loses a chance to talk
when his old enemy, Mr.. Stewart, is around
took the floor all to himself for half an
hour, and caused Mr.. Harris to fidget and
squirm until he was forced to go down into
the restaurant and swallow some clans
plentifully sprinkled with red pepper and
trimmed with deectable fluids.
This revived him, and he returned to the
chamber and started on a missionary tour
among the republicans. He talked here
and there, and urged haste upon those
patriots who shudder at the thought Of
working on Independence day. He kept his
eye on Mr.. Hoar, his constitutional antag-
onist. and when the rotund form Of the
New Englander had disappeared through
the door of the cloak room Mr.. Harris went
over and sat down in Mr.. Hoar's chair
next to Mr.. Sherman. with whom he had a