The San Francisco call., 1897-07-20
After Ten Hours De-
bate a Vote Is Taken
at Midnight.
Will at Once Be Sent to the
Senate for Action by
That Body.
Before the Week Expires the Tariff
Bill viii be q Law OF
the Land.

as the clock chimed out the day. the
House adopted the report of the con-
ferees on the tariff bill. 1t had been de-
bated ten hours, the Republican man.
ayers insisting upon the extraordinary
extension of the session in order that the
bill might thus be disposed of in single
day. The Republicans pursued the same
policy as that followed in the Senate and
refrained from engaging the attention of
the House, the only speeches in favor of
the report being those OF Dingley and
Payne at the opening and close of the de-
bate.
The report now goes to the Senate for
disposal. The vote was generally along
political divisions, the Republicans vot-
ing for the report. and the Democrats and
Populists against it. The only exceptions
were Broussard, Davis and Meyer of
Louisiana, and Slayden and Kleberg of
Texas (D.), who voted with the RepublI-
cans, as they did on the passage of the
bill. About half the Populists and Silver
ties refrained from voting, but all who did
vote were recorded in the negative.
+ When the conference report on the
tariff bill. was presented to the House to-
day Chairman Dingiey read a statement
embodying the more important points of
the committees action. Dineley said it
was desirable, if possible, that some ar
rangement be made for terminating the
debate, and asked for instructions from
the min ority.
Bailey responded that the Democrats
had believed that three days was not more
than a reasonable time in which to dis
cuss the report, but consultations with
Republicans had satisfied them that they
would not secure that period. and there
fore he suggested that vote be taken at
the conclusion of to-morrow's session.
giving two days for consideration of the
report.
Dingley said that talk at this period was
rather expensive, costing the Government
not less than 100000 day. [Applause.
Bailey answered hotly: mot so expen-
sive, let me say to my friend from Maine,
as it was during the ten days in which the
conferees were trying to satisfy the greed
of the sugar trust"
Dingley retorted that never before in
history of tariff legislation had conferees
been able to come to conclusion in so
brief time. "In 1894" be said, "the
conferees were in session six weeks. ana
then came in here without having reached
any conclusion at ALL. [Applause.
81 grant your speed" said Bailey, "but
your work was well laid out before you
went into conference"
IF you had been as we'll prepared in
1894 the conference would not have been
so long in coming to their lame conclu-
sion," said Dingley.
1.-THE trouble then was trying to run the
party with lot of mugwumps at the
head" said Bailey.
Dingley said that it was the earnest de-
sire of his colleagues that vote be reached
before the House adjourned to-day. Zap
plause.
Let me say to my friend from Maine"
said Bailey, f'not in the way of threat,
that he will make haste with the bill if he
will treat the minority fairly. There is
one place In the Government where the
minority can be heard, and while the
Democrats in the Senate have no purpose
to delay consideration of the bill they
will insist that it shall be fairly discussed"
To this Dingley replied tha at debate had
better proceed for a while. and the House
could then determine whether or not it
was worth $100, 600 a day 10 continue.
TCheers and shouts arose from the Re-
publican side of Vote, vote y
"SureIy you want to give the sugar
trust an opportunity to put up It's stock
only seven points this morning. Ex-
posure of the effect of the conference re-
port may cause a collapse later"
Dingley refused to accede to Bailey's
request.
Bailey objected to Dingley's proposal to
take a>vote at IL O'Clock tonight. Boutelle
of Maine asked, How many days debate
OF that kind does the gentleman from
Texas think the country wants?"
1.-THE conntrv has had In MANY froro th O
gentleman from Maine that l can sa- it is
tired of him." retorted Bailey. lilev
asked why the proposed tax upon stock
issues and transfers had been abandoned.
Dingley replied: because 1t was found
out that in the transactions which it was
chiefly intended to reach those of Wall
street and the various exchanges of the
country-no> record was kept and they
could not be traced"
Cummings asked about the rate on
diamonds.
ut was 10 per cent" Dingley responded.
"And in the House bill it was Is and in
the Wilson bill 26?" asked Cum mings.
"Yes," replied Dingley. The reason for
reducing the rate, he explained, was the
unanimous opin ion of all administrative
officers that whenever the rate of dia.
monds was raised above 10 per cent they
were smuggled to such an extent that
revenue from their importation almost
entirely disappeared. Personally he
would have been glad to have kept the
House rate.
The substance of Dingley's g explanation
about the sugar schedule was stated in
answer to a question by Dockery that
whereas the Wilson bill gives the refining
interest protective duty OF 2214 cents per
100 pounds the schedule proposed by tho
conferees will give 12H cents-iust about
halt. [Applause.l
Dingley said the bill was calculated to
produce in a normal year $225, ,000, 900 in
revenue. He said that because of antici-
patory imports the treasury had lost $40,-
900, 900 in revenue, making the net re-
ceipts for the current fiscal year $185, 000,-
GOO. This, added to receipts from internal
revenue and other sources, would give the
Government 1870, 000 900 with which to
meet about 1870, 100000 of expenditures;
but should the estimated loss from antici-
patory importations prove to be too
small, Dingley said, at least $32, 600, 900
could be safely taken from the cash in the
treasury to meet the deficiency. When
the bill rets fully into operation, he said,
il would be found to be revenue, not
deficit producing measure.
Debate for the Democrats was begun by
Wheeler of Alabama, one of the minority
conferees. Wheeler explained that the
Democrats had had no part in either pre-
pairing the bill in its original form nor as