The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-14
The Speaker Notifies senator Allison
that Republicans Cannot Support
Trust Amendments.
APPEAL FROM CONGRESSMEN
EXPECT TO BE DEFEATED If SEN
ATE SUGAR SCHEDULE PASS.
Southern Democratic Senator's Pre-
pairing to Delay the BiII--Com-
promise on Woods.
srecial to the indianapolis Journal.

| Srecial to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 13.-The sensational
! tariff incident of the day was the interview
between Speaker Reed and Chairman AL
lison, of the Senate wing of the conference
committee. The speaker called the senator
out of the committee room and with en-
tire frankness told exactly how the Re
publicans of the House felt with regard
to the trust-tinged amendments put on to
the bill in the Senate. He told the senator
that the Republican representatives were
up in and that he doubted very
much whether a report from the conference
committee acquiscng in the tainted amend
ments or agreeing to anything approxi-
mating thereto would be agreed to in the
House.
During the early hours of the afternoon
the speaker had been besieged by a great
number of Republican members, who told
him that it would be political suicide for
them in their own districts to indorse any
such plan as the Senate was mapping out
for them and that it would be the ruination
of the Republican party at the polls next
year. Fifty or sixty members come from
close districts and they feel that their
constituents would not stand anything
that looked like the adoption of cut
that looked like granting too great conces-
sions. The speaker was greatly impressed
with the force of these statements and they
lost nothing in vitality by his presentation
of them to Senator Allison. The conversa-
ton between the two gentlemen lasted
about fifteen minutes and was very earn
est. Speaker Reed asked Senator Allison
to request Chairman Dingley to step out
and he did so a moment later. The speaker
narrated briefly what he said to Senator
Allison and wound up the conversation by
specially requesting the chairman of the
ways and means committee to keep him
posted hereafter on the progress of the
conference.
This incident Travelled all over the Capitol
and within a short time after its occur
renee was the principal topic of discus
sion among the politicians. 1t is regarded
as particularly significant and is confrma-
ton of the reports that the House con-
ferees have been braced up and in obedi-
ence to the united sentiment of the House
viii stand firm against any material con-
cessons to the Senate conferees in the i'm
portant schedules which are in dispute.
Several members of the conference commit
tee stated this afternoon that they could
not see that the two wings of the commit
tee were any nearer together in the lead
ing points at issue now than they were the
first day the committee met The lines are
sharply drawn and both sides are display
ing considerable stubbornness. How long
this feeling will continue is, of course a
matter purely of speculation. The dead
lock may last for days or even weeks, or
it may break at any hour. The tension is
severe, but behind it all there is great anx-
iety on every hand to the conference
on its final passage.
The administration is in hearty sympathy
with this feeling and is lending the power
of its influence to pacification. The Presi-
dent has urged members of the House and
Senate branches of the committee TO go as
far they consistently can on the prin-
ciple of give and take and is urging a con-
clusion that will be satisfactory to Con-
gress and the people and result in the en-
actment of a law at an early day
The stock gamblers of Washington are
beginning to be fearful of the 'fim-ham'
game in sugar stock and are fighting shy
of further investments in that speciality
The generality of information does not con-
out that the conference committee has
agreed finally on the sugar schedule along
the lines of the Senate amendment and
they feel that the HaVemeyer crowd is
manipulating the stock market for the pur-
pose of reaping harvest of suckers
and of unloading on the public a fancy
prices. The orders to trade in sugar stock
for washington account" We're of smaller
volume to-day than yesterday and a more
conservative spirit appeared to rule among
the Washington operators