River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-16
THE HOUSE YIELDS.
Acting on the Caucus Decision It
Passes the Senate Bill.
1t Then Passes Separate Bills Placing
Coal. Iron, Sugar and Barbed Wire
on the Free List-The Pro-
ceedings.


END OF THE LONG FIGHT.
WASHINGTON, Aug. IA few min
rtes before noon the house democratic
caucus passed a resolution, proposed
by Speaker Crisp, advisip@ the recess
sion from the disagreeme. % the SEN
ate's amendments to the Wilson bill,
the passing of the amended bill. the
introduction of separate bills making
coal, iron, sugar and barbed wire
free of all duties.
In the House.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-When the
house met five minutes after
the democratic caucus adjourned
there were more members on the floor
than at any time since the tariff bill
was passed. The anxious public
who thronged the corridors before the
doors were thrown open crowded into
the galleries in anticipation of the
final scene in the long tariff
battle The greatest confusion existed
| on the floor. Members were standing
about in excited groups discussing the
/ situation. the general understanding
4 being thai resolutions to agree to the
senate amendments and probably to
consider the bills for free coal, iron,
sugar and barbedwire would be
brought in.
Republicans Raise an Objection.
/ At 2:15 p. m. Mr.. Catchings was rec
/ ognized and presented the report of
! the rules committee providing for the
immediate consideration and passage
\ of the senate tariff bill, to be followed
/ by the separate bills for sugar, coal,
\ iron ore and barbed wire.
Mr.. Reed made parliamentary OBJ
I lection to the procedure, claiming that
1 the tariff bill was not before the house,
and indicated the republican intention
to light the bill and report in every
] proper way.
Speaker Crisp held that the resolu-
tion was in order and before the house.
/ The previous question was ordered
without division.
The Rule Adopted.
At SEQ the motion on the adoption
/ of the rule was put. Mr.. Reed called
4 for division after Speaker Crisp had
/ decided it was carried. The rule was
+ adopted amid great shouts from the
democrats by a vote of yeas, iSS, nays,
/ 5. The negative votes were cast by
Messrs. Cochran and Warner IN. "
and Mr.. Robertson Tia. all demo
+ Gratis The republicans did not vote.
The special order setting apart
/ limited time for the consideration and
vote on the senate amendments to the
tariff bill, was adopted by vote of
yeas 176, to nays 81. Among the
| democrat who voted against the rule
. hnr Ia 4
johnson (0), Warner IN. W and
Robertson and Meyer LA.
The house proceeded immediately to
the consideration of the question of
concurring in the senate amendments,
4 on which two hours debate was al
lowed, and Mr.. Wilson dem, w. Va
/ proceeded to address the house.
MIR. Wilson's Speech.
Mr. Wilson said he did not pretend
to feel gratified at the outcome of the
prolonged controversy. Up to the
last moment he had cherished the
hope and faith that a more satisfac-
tory and better conclusion might be
reached. lie had hoped and believed
until there seemed no further ground
for hope and belief that some honor
able compromise between the two
houses might be achieved which
could nave been accepted with
feeling that congress had re-
sponded TO the mandates of the
American people. Whatever the
measure of shortcomings of this
bill in its present form-whatever be
its dement's in mere schedules-this
he did know--that it is better than
the Mckinley law. He knew, he said,
that in a part of it it does afford some
relief to the taxpayers of this country
and does clip the wings OF The gigantic
Inouopolies that are now depressing
them and blocking legislation. He
continued:
Take even those portions OF the bill over
Z which this contest between the two houses has
| been waged: take iron ore and coal, upon which
/ we have confronted, and. TO "A certain extent,
unsuccessfnlly confronted. the great railroad
syndicates of the country; yet we have reduced
them both nearly 80 per cent. below the Nc
/ kinley law. Take the sugar schedule, over
/ which the greatest OF all the contests between
| the two houses has been waged. Vicious as It
NAV be. burdensome to the people as il may be,
favorable to the trust as It may be, It Is less
| vicious, less favorable to the trust, less
| burdensome to the people, than is the
| Mckinley law, under which this trust
I mas grown so great as 70 over
shadow with its power the American pco-
pie II for no other reason. then those who
believe that when they cannot take the fun
step which they desire, when they cannot do
that which the people commissioned them to
do, they must take the est they can and
step far they can, may find some JUS
tification for an unhesitating choice between
the two bills"
VIII Produce Sufficient Revenue.
In reply to MIR. Hudson (pop., Kan J,
Mr.. Wilson said he had no hesitancy
whatever in saying that when the
schedules of the bill. with the senate
amendments, get into normal opera
ton it will produce sufficient and more
than sufficient revenue for the support
of the government. lie would add
to the answer that perhaps in the
beginning the bill will not produce as
much revenue as will result from it
later on under its ordinary working
because Ia was informed, whether it
be true or not he did not know, that
the sugar trust, in anticipation of the
passage of the bill, has imported about
500, 900, 600 worth, or, it has been said,
even in excess of that quantity. of raw
sugar.
Mr. Reed Is Humorous.
Mr.. Reed trep., Mel, the leader of
the opposition, took the floor. He
said his feelings were divided by two
emotions. One, an emotion of regret
for the democratic party, and for its
position, and the otherO is a feel
ing of equal regret for the
country in its position. So far as
the gentleman from West Virginia
was concerned, and his compatriots,
there was not the slightest necessity of
commenting on the difference between
this scene of sorrow and the triumphal
procession which carried him out of
this house. He is not so joyous now,
having been carried out in another
branch, and more effectualy. Mr..
Reed continued:
THE gentleman from West Virginia and his
compatriots appear before US now, not the
/ triumphal reformers marching 20 glory to the
I sound OF their own sweet voices. They are
/ little babies in the wood. and IL will be found
I pretty soon that they were left there by their
uncle in n" white house And can hear the
I coming of the plnions OF the little birds bear
ing the ballots that are TO bury them out OF
I sight
But their fate is OF small consequence.
Their disappearance Is the least OF this event.
told this house speaking on the tariff ques-
( tion, that one of the great misfortunes OF this
attempted action would be the fact that what
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