The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-18
LAST FIGHT ON THE TARIFF
The COnierGeS Likely to Report a Dis
agreement To-day.

The First Meeting of the Full Commit
tee Held Yssterday-The oonserva-
tive Element Among the Senate
Democrats Still Standing by Their
Guns-President Cleveland Back OF
the House in the Fight - Speaker
Crisp Hurrying Back to Take Hand
in the Fray.
Washington, July 1.-THE full confer
ence committee on the tariff bill, includ.
ing the republican conferees, met this
afternoon at 2 o'clock in the room of the
Senate committee on finance. Prior to
their meeting, it is said that Senator
German and one or two other senators.
who have achieved prominence for their
'conservativenessn in the construction Of
the tariff bill, called the democratic men,
bors into committee room and
warned them again that under
no circumstances must they recede
from the amendments the Senate had
made TO the House bill Should they do
so and thereby change the complexion of
the Senate bill, the conferees were told
that upon their shoulders must rest the
responsibility for the defeat Of the bill in
the end.
The conference adjourned at 3:15
o'clock, until O'Clock tomorrow, without
doing anything except to discuss the gem
eral situation
1t is said that the House conferees are
! standing out because the President is be-
hind them, and is insisting that the
| House bill, and not that of the Senate,
shall become the tariff law Of the land.
TO REPORT A DISAGREEMENT.
| The conference committee will, In ali
| probability, report a disagreement to-
morrow. The startling alternative of the
Senate, bill or no bill, will stare the
members of the House in the face The
! conservative element in the Senate are so
combined and interlocked that it seems
| impossible TO move them to a sense of
duty. Collars and cuffs depend on
| sugar, sugar on coal and iron,
| and these on the wooden
manufactures schedule, and so on ad in
hnitum. This is the tangle Chairman
Wilson and his conferees are commanded
by the House TO unravel. They have
tried. They could not and so adeadlocS
has been reached. MIR. Wilson is again
threatened with nervous prostration.
When Judge Bob Hardeman and Mr.. Des-
sau of Macon called on him to invite him
to attend the State fair in the fall they
found him sick, his head bandaged in ice.
He is an i'll man. He will attempt ona
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stand TO it's guns. The House may then
instruct him to hold fast and test Of
moral endurance will follow.
CRISP HURRYINa BACK.
Atlanta, Ca, July 17-Speaker Crisp
passed through the city to-day on his
way TO Washington. He has been at
/ homo for week past, on account Of the
| serious illness of his son, Fred. The
| young man is improving, however, and
last night when Speaker Crisp received a
telegram from Washington stating that
the tariff bill'would be sent back to the
House tomorrow by the committee
with report disagreeing TO the
Senate amendments, he at once de-
termined to set out for the capi-
toll Speaker Crisp thinks the House will
stand pat on the tariff bill as it went into
| the Senate, and that finally the coal, iron
ore and sugar schedules, which are the
main points of difference, will 20 through,
II not as the House fixed them, very
nearly so. He is hopeful that the confer
ence committee, once it gets down TO
work, will come TO an early understand
ing. Both sides realize that it is all inn
portant that the tariff legislation should
be pushed and both will yield some in tho
interest Of harmony.