The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-07-22
REPORT IN THE SENATE
Democrats Object to New Mat
ter in the Amendments.
PROTESTS ARE IN. VAIN
Vest, Jones and Teller Criticise the Con-
ference Report Vigorously Morgan
Says the Committee Exceeded Its
Powers Strike and Prosperity

ference report was taktl up In the SEN
ate to-day after routine business was
disposed OF and the formal reading Of
the report proceeded. During the early
hours the discussion was purely form
al most of the time being given to
Identifying the numbered amendments
with the text OF the senate bill,
The first contest arose over amend
ment $50 relating Ia printing paper
The conference report made a retalia-
tory proviso as follows: II any coun-
try or dependency shall impose an ex-
port duty upon pulp wood exported to
the United States there shall be i'm
posed upon printing paper when i'm
ported from such country or dependen-
cy an additiona duty OF one-tenth Of
one cent per pound for each dollar of
export duty per cord so imposed and
proportionately for fractions Of dol
lar of such export duty.
Senator's Vest. Jones. Arkansas. and
Teller, vigorously protested against
this amendment, saying 1t was a new
provision. not acted on by the senate
and house and beyond the power OF the
conference committee. Teller criticised
such conference as an outrage. as the
committee acted arbitrarily and came
before the senate saying In effect
What are you going to do about it,"
Jones finally made direct issue
against the conference committee.
making point Of order against the
retalatory clause on the ground of Its
being new matter. He said he would
ask for "A ruling from the chair on the
regularity Of the conference action.
Chandler New Hampshire, referred
To the broad latitude given the confer
ence committees In the practice of both
houses of congress. He raised a laugh
by telling Jones' that he had swallow
ed two tribes OF Indians on a confer
ence report on one of the Indian appro-
priation bills. Aldrich defended the re-
taliatory clause. saying II was strictly
within the rights Of the conferees, as
the general subject was In difference
between the senate and the house. The
conference bill must be accepted or re-
itcted as a whole said Aldrich. and the
main question could not be diverted by
appeals for a ruling from the chair.
White referred to the secret sessions
of the republican conferees and ironi-
cally read Chambers remarks on the
Wilson bill, where the New Hampshire
senator declared that the bill had been
brought forth In the dark and should
be blasted by legislative lightning A
lengthy discussion followed on the
powers of the conference committee
Morgan argued that the committee
hau exceeded It's powers ana that IL
could not arrogate To itself the right to
originate new amendments. The sena-
tor branched or to the partisanship OF
thc bill. The man who wouldrllft the
tarin our oi politics. ne said. would be
another Thomas Jefferson, as bene-
factor To ms country. The present bill
was framed ON purely partisan lines
/ declared Morgan, and was designed to
give oenen's 10 party favorites.
morgan referred TO the reports that
the splendid and ponderous speaker"
OF the house OF representatives had
secured a house victory ON the sugar
scheduie. The senator thought there
must De some mistake about the
speakers success. Tor "notwithstand-
ing mis- ponderosity the harder he sits
down on thing, the harder II rises:
Notwithstanding his sitting down on
the sugar schedule. up go the prices.
If he could not work the safety valve
better than that he had better retire
from politics.
Vice President Hobart then an
nounced his decision on the point of
{
taken. IL was not. he said for the
chair TO determine whether the mat
ter in a conference report was new or
was relevant. All such questions
were for the senate itself on the ques-
tion OF accepting or rejecting the re-
port.
On hides, Allen asked why the con-
ferees had provided a drawback OF
duty on leather exported, made from
imported hides. Aldrich explained
that the house had insisted on the pro-
viso and he felt that the drawback
was payable under the law without
reference 10 the provision. He thought
ABOUT s5Oo.ooo To Noo.Ooo OF revenue
would De obtained from the duty on
hides ana probably about half of this
would be paid IN drawbacks.
Allen spoke against the bill as a
whole. and incidentally referred to the
present coal strike. contrasting IL with
the promises OF prosperity. The strike
would he arbitrated, he said, and arbi-
trated in but one way, namely, In
favor OF the coal baron and against
the miner. and IL the miner protested,
ne would De met with the baton of po-
licemen or the bayonet OF the soldier
Teller and Vest criticised the hide
amendment, The former saying the
drawback clause was In the interest Of
the eastern manufacturers. Aldrich
answered that East and West stood
on the same basis. as far as this leg
islation was concerned. 1t was i'm