The record-union., 1897-07-20
QUICK ACTION
TAKEN IN THE HOUSE,
Conference Report on the Tariff
Bill Adopted.
Result Accomplished After Twelve Hours
Debate.

Rival Democratic Leaders, Gross
Swords Over the Free Raw Ma
terial Doctrine, the Former OPP
posing and the Latter Cham
pioning It.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-The con-
| ference report on the tariff bill was
adopted by the House shortly after mid
night by a vote of 1S5 to 11S and at noon
tomorrow the report will go to the
Senate for action there. This eclipses
all previous records. The result was ac-
complished after twelve hours of con-
tinuous debate.
But two speeches were made by the
Republicans, one by Dingley, in opening
the debate, and by Payne of New York
in closing it. The Democrats were thus
forced to put forth speaker after speaker
but their bombardment of the PROPOSE
ton was unanswered. In all ten Demo-
Gratis and Populists speeches were made.
| MeSsrs. Wheeler of Alabama, Swanson
of Virginia, Bell of Texas, Lanham of
| Texas, Kelly of North Dakota, Fleming
of Georgia, Handy of Delaware, Nc
Dowell of Ohio, Perry of Kentucky,
Bailey of Texas and Mcmillan of Ten
nessee being the speakers.
The sugar schedule was the point of
assault, but the interesting feature of
the debate occurred when Bailey and
Mcmillan, the two rival Democratic lead
ers crossed swords on the question of
orthodoxy of the free raw material doc
trine, the former opposing and the latter
championing it.
The galleries were crowded up to the
time the vote was taken, many distin-
guished people being present Among
them We're many Senators, many mem
bers of the Cabinet and a few members
of the diplomatic corps. Every Republi-
can in the House who was present voted
for the report The Democrats, with five
exceptions, voted against the report.
The exceptions were Slayden OF Texas
Broussard of Louisiana, Meyer of
Louisiana, Davey of Louisiana, and
Kleburg of Texas. The Populists and
Silverites did not vote solidly. Messrs.
Shafroth of Colorado, Newlands of Ne
Vada and Hartman, silverites, did not
vote. The Populists who voted against
the report are as follows: Baker, Bar
low Fowler, Jet, Lewis, Marshall,
Martin, Peters, Simpson, Strowd and
Vincent. Four did not vote Howard,
Kelly, Stark and Sutherland The other
Populists were absent. An analysis of
the vote shows that $50 Republicans
and ; Democrats voted for the report,
and 106 Democrats and - Populists
against it
The floor of the House presented an
animated appearance long before the
Speaker raped that body to order
Members stood about in groups and dis
cussed, sometimes in excited tones, the
result of the conference agreement on
the tariff bill
The final conference report on the gen
eral deficiency appropriation bill was
adopted.
This out of the way. Dingley arose,
and holding aloft the report and great
mass of papers, he said, in calm tones:
''Mr. Speaker, l desire to present the
conference report on the tariff BILL
Salvos of applause on the Republican
side greeted this announcement
An effort was made to secure an agree
ment for a vote Bailey said the mi
nority desired three days, but knowing
satisfied with two
Dingley refused to agree with this,
saying: Talk at this time is very ex
pensive 1t costs the treasury 100000
a day"
mot so expensive as the ten days you
spent in arguing the sugar schedule with
the sugar trust" retorted Bailey, amid a
counter round of applause by his fol-
lowers.
Dingley, in reply pointed out that
never before in the Legislative history
had tariff bill been in conference two
weeks" and our friends on the other
side said he. addressing the Demo-
Gratis. ''in 1894 were in conference six
weeks without reaching an argument.
'.The trouble in 1897 retorted Bailey,
"was that we were trying to run the
Democratic party with a lot of mug
wumps in command" daughter and
applause on the Democratic side)
Dingley continued his efforts to fix
a time for a vote, the Republicans dur
ing the discussion crying, t'Vote, vote,
vote"
Il suggest that we wait until sugar
stock goes up a little higher" said Bal
ley. sarcastically TT has gone up So
a share since the agreement was re-
ported"
All efforts to reach an agreement
having failed, Dingley opened his
speech on the conference report He
took up each schedule, explaining in
detail the changes made and following
closely the formal statement given out
by the committee.
When Dingley referred to the elimina-
tfon of the stamp tax, Todd Oem) of
Michigan asked him il he confessed
that they had abandoned the idea of
taxing the stock gamblers of Wall
street.
Not at ALL" replied Dingley. I'VE
discovered that the sales on Wall street
could not be followed. No record is
kept The machinery of collection
would be too complex.
Cooper Rep.) of Wisconsin wanted
ar explanation of the net result of the
change in the sugar schedule.
Dingley, after a calculation, affirmed
that the refiner of sugar under the
present Wilson law had a differential
of 22h cents per 100 pounds. as
aginst 121a cents in the pending bill, as
agreed to by the conferrees. AS to the
question of revenue to be raised by the
bill, Dingley pointed out the difficulty
resulting from the large anticipatory
importations. The bill next year. he
calculated would raise S225. 600 000
$4,000 900 more than the present law.