The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-19

adjournment on Tuesday. The rules will
be presented and adopted as soon as the
conferees make their report, probably soon
after noon tomorrow. The debate viii fol-
low Immediately The South Carolina as
pensary bill will be used TO consume uIne
until the report is brought in. 1t Is not pc
lieved that single Republican vote IN the
House will be recorded against the report
The programme in the Senate IS much
more indefinite on account of the wide lati-
tude allowed for debate and the absence or
any parliamentary method of bringing the
report to a vote. The Democratic senators,
1t is safe to presume from their talk To-
day. intend to as5al the compromise on
sugar, to which the conferees agreed ana
to make a pretty stiff fight against the res
toratiOn TO the dutiable list of cotton bag
ging, cotton ties, buraps, 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 op-
position to the restoration of white pine TO
the House rate of 81 per thousand Some
of the Democratic senators to-day dis
cUssed the moss ibilfty 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
imagines seriously that the report is in any
danger in the Senate when 1t comes TO a
hnal vote. And, moreover, the most proIIll-
nent of the Democratic senators freely eX-
press the opinion that the fight in the
Senate. though it may be spirited, viii be
brief. They believe a vote will be reached
within three days in the Senate.
The parliamentary procedure on confer
ence reports may have important bearing on
the course of the debate in the Senate. A
question has arisen as to the parliamen-
tary practice. 1t is the established pro-
cedure to consider conference reports as an
entirety, that no vote can be taken on
any separates feature of the report. The
report must be accepted or rejected as
whole. This practice becomes important in
view of the desire among those opposing
the bill to secure a separate vote on sugar,
lumber. cotton ties cotton bagging and
other items which have aroused exceptional
interest. One of the conferees, who is an
authority on parliamentary procedure, SAID
to ip1 '1.ra N "a n
conference report must be considered as
an entirety The rulings of Speaker Blaini
Speaker Carlisle and others have placed
that beyond controversy and the same rule
has been observed In the Senate. The only
question before the House is: Shall the
report be accepted or rejected as a whole?
For that reason no motion relating TO
sugar cotton ties, cotton bagging. or any
other item of the report is in order. The
vote will be taken on agreeing to the en-
tire report and it Is only by defeating the
report as whole that 1t would be possible
to reach any special item. Should the en-
tire report be rejected then motion would
be in order to recommit the bill to the con
ference, with instructions on any partic-
ular subject. The strength Of the report
lies in it's entirety"
Some of the opponents of the bill in the
Senate hold that a motion to recomm1t
with instructions as to separate items would
be in order before the votelis taken on ac-
cepting the report as an entirety, but the
best Observation-Disclosures in both branches
say that the practice is well settled and
that the vote must be taken first on the
duOpllOH OF IeJeCllOll VI lllC ASPOl Il
jected then any other motion would be in
order. 1t is learned to-day that there were
some changes of verbiage in the sugar
schedule not noted in the Associated Press
report last night and that the provision for
the ratification of reciprocity treaties by
the Senate was retained in the modified rec
iprocity clause. The Associated Press report
last night covered most of the changes on
the important provisions of the bill.
Among the other things agreed to were
the Senate rates on steel tubing anG hol-
low billets used in the manufacture of
bicycle frames. The rate on cotton bagging
is 7:10ths of a cent. The House rate was
twelve tenths.