The herald., 1897-07-19
NEW TARIFF
SCHEDULES
Will Be in Force Within
The Week
ADVOCATES OF FREE TRADE
WILL NOT BE GIVEN TIME TO
OBJECT
ADVOCATES OF FREE TRADE
Two Days in the House and Three in
the Senate Will End the
Special Session
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, July 1S.-The indd-
cations tonight are that the tariff bill
as agreed to by the Republican con-
ferees yesterday probably will have
| passed both houses of congress and be
law at the end of the present week.
Delays and complications, now unan-
ticipated, may somewhat prolong the
| final struggle. The Republican confer
ees have been working hard all day con-
sultng and arranging the details of the
report, which they now believe they will
be able to submit to their Democratic
colleagues tomorrow morning. The bulk
of this work has fallen on the shoulders
of Allison and Dingley, who are pre-
pairing the statements of the effect of
the changes made by the conferees,
which will be submitted to their respec-
tive houses. They have had a small
army of clerks at work throughout the
day in the room of the senate committee
on finance preparing the bill for the
printers. If this task can be accom-
plished tonight SO that the printed bill
can be laid before the Democrats to-
morrow morning the debate will begin
in the house tomorrow afternoon. 1t is
not believed that there will be any dis
position on the part of the Democratic
members of the conference to delay the
bill in full committee, but the Democrats
have had no meeting to determine their
course of action on this point. Mr.
Dingley expressed the opinion tonight
that an hour would be sufficient time in
which to explain the changes made by
the conferees to their minority col
leagues on the committee. One or two of
| the Democrats are tonight inclined to
insist upon a day of deliberation on the
changes, but they of course see that they
are hopeless If the majority desire to
report the bill over their protest, and,
inasmuch as the Republican leaders of
the house decided tonight to give two
full days for the discussion of the re-
port in the Muse they probably will
acquiesce in the decision of the majority
to make the report tomorrow.
All along the Republican leaders have
been disposed to allow but one day for
debate and, while they still believe one
day would be sufficient after discuss
ing the question tonight they decided,
more to disarm the protest the minority
would be sure to make and the possible
criticism that the report was to be
dragooned through the house, to give
two full days for debate. The report
must, of course, be acted upon by the
house before it is considered in the SEN
ate. The committee on rules will meet
tomorrow morning and prepare a rule
which will bring a vote on the report be-
fore adjournment on Tuesday. The
rules will be presented and adopted as
soon as the conferees make their report.
probably soon after noon tomorrow. The
report will follow Immediately.
The South Carolina dispensary bill
will be used to consume time until the
report is brought in. 1t is not believed
that single Republican vote, in the
house will be recorded against the re-
port.
The program in the senate is much
more definite on account of the wide. lat
itude offered for debate ard the absence
of any parliamentary method of bring
ing the report to vote. The Demo-
cratic senators, it Is safe to predict from
their talk today, intend to assail the
compromise on sugar, to which the con-
ferees agreed, and to- make pretty stiff
fight against the restoration to the duti-
able list of cotton 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 a strong opposition
to the restoration off white pine to the
house rate of 81 per tfousa nd feet Some
of the Democratic senators until today
discussed the possibility of dhfea ting 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 danger in the senate
when it comes to final vote. And,
moreover, the most prominent Demo-
cratic senat tors freely express the opin-
ion that the fight in the senate, which
may be spirited will be brief They be-
lieve vote will be reached in three days
| in the senate.
The parliamentary procedure on con-
ference report may have an important
bearing on the course of the debate in
the senate. A question has arisen as to
| esta bpisked procedure to consider con-
ference reports as an entirety, so that no
| vote can be taken on ally separate fea-
ture 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 sslcure a separate vote on lumber,
cotton ties, cotton bagging, sugar and
other items which have aroused excep-
tional interest. One of the conferees who
is an authority or parliamentary pro-
cedure, said tonight:
"There can be no doubt that the con-
ference report must be considered as an
entirety The rulings of Speakers Blaine,
Carlisle and Others, have placed that be-
yond 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
whole? For that reason no motion re-
lHting to sugar. cotton ties, cotton bag