Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-22
THE TARIFF BILL.
The House Adopts the Conference
Report on the Measure.
ONLY TWELVE HOURS OF DEBATE.
The. Report Passed by Vote Of 1888 to IFS
THE Senate Discusses the Harris
Resolution on the Union Pa
cihc Railroad.

WASHINGTON, July sO.--The confer
ence report on the tariff bill was adopt
ed by the house shortly after midnigh
by vote of 1856 to ll5, and at noon to
day the report will go TO the senate
for action there. This eclipses al
previous records. The result was ac-
complished after 19 hours Of continu
Gus debate. But two speeches were
made oy the republicans-one by Mr..
Dingley in opening the debate, and
one by Mr.. Payne, Of New York, in
closing it. In all ten democrat and
one populst speeches were made. The
sugar schedule was the main point OF
assault. The galleries were crowded
up to the time the vote was taken,
many distinguished people being pres
ent.
the democrats, with five exceptions,
voted against the report. The excep-
'tions were Slayden, of Texas; Brous-
sard, Of louisiana Meyer, of Louis
lana; Davey, Of Louisiana, and Kie-
berg, of Texas. The populists and sill
verites did not vote solidly. Messrs.
Shafroth, OF Colorado, and Newlands,
OF Nevada, silverites, abstained from
voting. Mr.. Hartman, silverite, Mon
tana, did not vote. The populists who
voted against the report were as fol-
lows: Baker, Barlow, Botkin, Fowler,
Jet, Lewis, Marshall, Martin, Peters,
Simpson, Strowd and Vincent. Four
did not vote--lIoward, Kelley, Stark
and Sutherland. The other populists
were absent An analysis Of the vote
shows that 1870 republicans and five
democrats voted for the report and 1905
democrats and IL populists against 1t.
The final conference report on the
general deficiency appropriation bill
was adopted. This out Of the way,
Mr. Dingley arose, and holding aloft
the report and great mass Of papers,
he said in calm tones: "Mr. Speaker,
] desire TO present the conference re-
port on the tariff bill'
Salvos Of applause from the repub-
lican side greeted this announcement.
An effort was made to secure an agree
ment for u vote Mr. Bailey said the
minority desired three days, but know
ing they could not obtain them, would
be satisfied with two. Mr.. Dingley
refused to agree to this, saying: Talk
at this time is very expensive. 1t costs
the treasury 100000 day." mot 50
expensive as the ten days you spent in
arranging this meeting schedule with
the sugar trust retorted Mr. Bailey,
amid counter.round of applause by
his followers. All efforts to reach an
agreement failed, and Mr.. Dingley
opened his speech on the conference
report. He took up each schedule, ex-
planning in detail the changes made,
and following closely the formal state
ment given out by the committee.
As to the question of revenue to be
raised by the bill, Mr.. Dingley point
ed out the difficulty resulting from the
large anticipatory importations. The
bill next year, he calculated, would
raise S2s5, 1000, 900, $75, OOO,O more than
the present law. Over $40, 100000 had
been lost in this years revenues by the
importations of wool and sugar and
other things, the duty on which was
raised In the bill, SO that he calculated
that the bill this year would raise
slsa,OOO,OO Mr. Dingley declared
that there was no doubt that the rev.
enue produced by the bill would be
ample to meet the expenditures of the
government.
Mr.. Wheeler, of Alabama, opened
the debate for the democrats, critics
ing the bill as the most vicious and
burdensome ever imposed on the Ameri-
can people. In particular he discussed
the serious effect Of the measure on
the workingmen and agriculturists
Mr.. Wheeler referred to the advance
on sugar stock in New York market
to-day, and said this was the clearest
evidence of the benefits conferred on
the sugar trust. Mr.. Swanson, of Vir-
ginia, member of the ways and means
committee, to whom Mr.. Wheeler
yielded a portion Of his time, devoted
his attention to assailing the sugar
schedule agreed upon by the conferees.
He asserted that the proposed sched-
ule gave sugar double the protection
received under the present law. He
then compared the two schedules TO
show that the duty on refined sugar
in the senate schedule and the new
schedule were exactly the same.
Mr.. Dingley openly avowed that the
schedule gave u slight additional pro-
lection to refined sugar, but at the
same time II raised raw all along the
line. Then, amid a storm of cheers,
Mr.. Dingley demanded the previous
question on the adoption of the confer
ence report. Considerable excitement
occurred while the vote was being
taken. When the speaker announced
the vote-ls5 ayes lis nays--the repub-