The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-20
HOUSE WINS.
Tariff Bill VIII Be Submitted to Con-
gress This Week.
1t is Thought the Measure Will Become
Law by Saturday-There is No Dis
position on the Part of the Demo-
Gratis to Delay the Bill.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-The indica-
bill, as agreed to by the repu blican
conferees Saturday, probably will have
passed both houses of congress and be
a law at the end of the present week.
Delays and complications, now unan
ticipated, might somewhat prolong the
final struggle. The republican con-,
ferees have been working hard all day
consulting and arranging the details
of the report, which they now believe
they will be able to submit to
their democratic colleagues Mon
day morning. The bulk of this work
has fallen upon the shoulders of
Senator Allison and Gov. Dingley, who
are preparing the statements of the
effect of the changes made by the con-
ferees which will be submitted to their
respective houses. They have had a,
small army of clerks at work through
out the day in the room of the senate
committee on finance, preparing the
bill for the printer. If this task can
be accomplished the printed bill can
be laid before the democrats Monday
morning, the debA, e will begin in the
house Monday afternoon.
1t is not believed that. there will be
any disposition en- the part of the
democratic members of the conference
to delay the bill in full committee,
but the democrats have had no meet
ing to determine their course of action
on this point. Gov. Dingley expressed
the opinion Sunday night that an hour
would be sufficient time in which to
explain the charges made by the con-
ferees to their minority colleagues on
the committee. One or two OF the
democrats are Sunday night inclined
to insist upon day for deliberations
on the changes, but they of
course realize that they are help
less if the majority desire to
report the bill over their protest and,
in as much as the republican leaders
of the house decided Sunday night to
give two full days for the discussion
of the report in the house, they prob
ably will acquiesce in the decision of
the majority to make the report Mon
day. All along the republican lead
ers have been disposed to allow but
one day for debate in the house and,
while they still believe one day would
be sufficient, after discussing the ques-
ton Sunday night, they decided, more
to disarm the protests the
minority would be sure to make,
and the possible criticism that the
| report was to be dragoned through
the house to give two full days for de-
bate. The report must, of course, be
acted upon by the house before it is
| considered in the senate. The com
mittee on rules will meet Monday
morning and prepare a rule which
will bring a vote on the report before
the adjournment on Tuesday. The
rules will be presented and adopted as
soon as the conferees make their re-
port, probably soon afternoon Mon
day. The debate will follow immedi.
ately. The South Carolina dispensary
bill will be used to consume time until
the report is brought in. 1t is not be
lieved that single repu blican vote in
the house will be recorded against the
report.
The programme in the senate is
much more indefinite on account OF
the wide latitude allowed for debate
and the absence of any preliminary
method of bringing the report to a vote.
The democratic senators, it is safe to
presume from their talk Sunday, in
tend to assail the compromise on sug-
ar, to which the confereeS agreed and
to make a pretty stiff fight against the
restoration to the dutiable list of cot
ton bagging, cotton ties, burlaps, etc,
which they succeeded with the aid OF
| the populists and one or two
republicans, in placing on the
free list. They also will make strong
| opposition to the restoration
of white pine to the house rate of So. 90
per thousand. Some of the democratic
senators Sunday discussed the posi-
biIity of defeating the report in the
senate on the presumption that they
might be able to secure as many votes
against the report as they did to place
these articles on the free list But no
one imagines seriously that the report
is in any danger in the senate when it
comes to final vote. And, moreover,
the most prominent of the democratic
senators freely expresses the opinion
|
may be spirited, will be brief They
believe vote will be reached within
three days in the. senate.
Some of the opponents of the bill in
the senate hold that a motion to re-
commit with instructions as to sepa-
rate items would be in order before
the vote is taken on accepting the re-
port as an entirety, but the best par
liamentarians in both branches say
that the practice is well settled and
! that the vote must be taken first on
the adoption or rejection of the report.
1t was learned Sunday that there
were some changes of verbiage in the
sugar schedule and that the provision
for the ratification of reciprocity treat
les by the senate was retained in the
modified reciprocity clause. Among
the other thing agreed to were the
senate rates on steel tubing and hol-
low billets used in the manufacture Of
bicycle frames The rate on cotton
bagging is 7-1Oths Of cent. The house
rate was 12-10thS.