Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-08-17
Tariff Fight Ended by the
House Accepting Senate
Amendments.
IT WAS THAT BILL OR NONE
And House Leaders Decide
Ii 1t Is Preferable to Nc
=, kinleyism. /
SUGAR, IRON ORE AND COAL.
Supplementary Bills Passed
Admitting Those Arti-
CleS Free,

CleS Free.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.-The long
struggle over the tariff bill came to a
close at 6p. NJ, when the house, by
vote of 1872 to 105, decided to discharge
the house conferees from further con-
sideration of the bill, recede from its
opposition to the 634 senate amend
ments and agree to the senate bill. It
was a complete victory for the senate.
The house made an absolute surrender.
The result grew directly out of the SEN
sationNl course of events at the senate
end Of the Capitol precipitated by Sen
ator Fill on Friday. Up to that time
the house conferees had stood firm
against the senate amendments, espe-
cially on the
Three Disputed Schedules
of coal, iron ore and sugar, and the tenn
per and voice of the house was for war
war to the end. But the indications
that the Democrats of the senate might
not be- able to longer hold majority of
the votes in line for even the senate bill,
and that the bill was in desperate jeop-
ardy, forced the house Democrats to
give in. The Democratic conferees of
the house at last admitted that they
were beaten, and that another vote
could not be risked in the senate; that
it must either be the senate bill or no
bill. The whole question was precipi-
tated at the caucus held just before the
house convened, at which, after thor
ough review of the situation and
speeches in favor of receding by Speaker
Crisp, Chairman Wilson and others, it
was decided
To Accept the Senate Bill
and Immediately afterwards pass separ-,
ate bills placing coal, iron ore, sugar
and barbed wire on the free list and by
so doing place the house on record and
at least partially overcome the humilia-
ton involved in it's defeat. The pro-
gramme arranged in the caucus was
carried out to the letter in the house
after an ironclad special order. The
scenes in the chamber throughout the
day and evening were exciting and at
times sensational. The galleries were
packed and the members applauded and
cheered their respective leaders to the
echo. Under the terms of the order but
two hours were allowed for debate on the
main proposition to recede and agree to
the senate amendments to the tariff bill.
A parliamentary skirmish
Preceded the Pitched I:attle,
but the points of order raised by the
Republicans were swept aside. The
speaker ruled the house with an iron
hand. The principal speeches for and
against the main proposition were made
by Chairman Wilson and Speaker Crisp
on the one hand and ex-Speaker Reed
and Mr.. Burrows on the other. There
was no time for preparations, and all the
speeches were hot from the FORCES of the
brain and were greeted with round
after round of cheers and applause.
Bourke Cochran of New York and Mr..
Tarsney Of Missouri, both Democratic
members of the ways and means COM
mittee, delivered scathing and sensa-
tional speeches, denouncing the surren-
der of the house as
Indefensible and Cowardly.
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 corridor before the doors
were thrown open, crowded into the
galleries in anticipation Of the final
scene in the long tariff battle.
The special order presented by Mr..
Catchings provided, first, that imme-
diately after the adoption of the order
it would be in order to consider a
resolution discharging the house confer
ees on the tariff bill from the further
duty of considering that measure, and
that the house
Recede From Its Disagreement
in gross to the senate amendments to
the bill, and agree to the same, and
second, that it shall be in order at any
time thereafter, to consider bills for free
coal, free iron, free sugar and free
barbed wire. The resolution allowed
two hours debate on the tariff resolu-
ton.