The Meeker herald., 1897-07-31
THE NEW TARIFF LAW
CONGRESS HAS ADJOURNED.
Conference Report Agreed p ~ Both
Houses-One Democrat. One Silver Re-
publican and One Popaiist Voted Aye
somewhat Exciting Dsaat' Marked
the Last Day of the senate Sessloa-

Washington. July 24.-The tariff bill
passed it's last Legislative stage 1T 3
D. III. to-day, when the Senate, by the
decisive vote of 40 to 30. agreed to the
conference report on the bill. The an
nouncement was greeted with enthusi-
astic applause by the crowded cham
Der. This closed the great labor for
which the Fifty-fifth Congress asSem-
bled in extraordinary session and after
stubborn resistance. mt times thre4 tell
Ing deadlock. the Senate cOncWreu
with the House in resolution fot the
final adjournment of the session ht U
o'clock tonight.
The Presidents message for a cur
rency commission was received By the
Senate. but the House bill creating a
commission was not acted on. Thus
the closing day was prolific OF sfries
of momentous events. each OF Wiich
alone would have been of exttaor-
dinary interest.
An analysis of the vote on the tarin
sfnD1GeM.e reRsst shows -teat the Al
@-,.~,iv We vata u-ne aast by 81 RepuOli-
cans. Democrat fMcEnery). silver
Republican Dones. New, and Popu-
list tStewart).
The negative vote WAS cast by .
Democrats and . Populists tHarris
snd Turner. Mr.. Teller tSilrer RephD
licam and two Populists tAlen anu
Butlef) did not vote. Ono fopuiis'
kyle and one Silver Rcpublicah 'fet-
tigrew, were absent. without pairs.
which was equivalent to wihhhoiding
their vote.
The vote was as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich. Allison. Baker. Bur
rows. Carter. Clark Davis. Deboe. FL
kins. Fairbanks. Foraker, Frye. Calm
ger. Gear. Hale. Hansbrough, Hawley.
Hoar. Jones tNevada). Lodge. Nc
Bride. McEnery. Mcmillan, Mason.
Morrill,. Nelson. Penrose. Perkins. hatt
Comm, Platt IN. ", Pritchard, Proc
tor. Quay. Sewall, ShOup, SpoOner
Stewart. Thurston. Warren. Wetmore
10.
Nays-Bacon. Bate, Berry. Canfry.
Chiffon, Clay. Cockrell. Daniel. Fatilk-
ner. German. Harris. Jones IAk).
Lindsay. Mallory. Martin. Miles. Nit
chell. Morgan, Murphy. Pascoe. Petnt.
Roach, Smith. Tillman, Turley. Turner,
Turpie. Vest. Walthall, White-30-
The following pairs We're announced
the first for and the last against the
bill.
Chandler with Cannon. Cullom With
GRAY, Wolcott with George; Cuuoin
with Rawlins. Wellington with Nc
Iaurin. Mantle with Kenny, Wilson
with Heitfeld.
Mr.. Hanna voted at first. under the
impression that Mr.. Rawlina With
whom he was paired, was present. but
observing his absence withdrew his
vote.
The extraordinary session q ton-
gress. which has just closed. w3s called
l. f.V -s,,Ix N
he took the oath of office on The steps
of the capitol. 1t met in pursuance to
his proclamation at noon March IL.
The special message transmitted by
him to both houses oil the opening DAY
was brief. 1t explained the detcien-
cics in the revenues, reviewed the BOND
issues of the last administration and
urged Congress promptly to cfrect
the then existing condition by passing
tariff bill that would supply aple
revenues for the support of the gov
ernment and the liquidation Of the pub
lie debt. No other subject of ledsla-
tion was mentioned In the mefage
and the tariff has been the all-ab3Drb-
ing feature of the session. The Retub-
llcan members OF the ways and mtans
committee Of the preceding houses Pad
been nj work throughout the short fes-
sion Wnlcn enueu March 4. giving mar
ings and preparing the bill which was
to be submitted at the extra session.
Three days after the session opeDed
the tariff bill was reported to me
House by the ways and means con-
mittee and thirteen days later March
81. 1897. 1t passed the House. 1t went
to the Senate. was referred to the con-
mittee on finance and the Republican
members OF that committee spent a
month and three days in its considea y
tion and preparing the amendments
which were submitted to the Sen& te
May I. and exactly two months later.
July I. It passed the Senate with s72
amendments. The bill then went to
conference. where. after a ten-days'
struggle. on July II complete agree
ment was reached. by which the Sem
ate receded from 11S amendments and
the House from 511. The other 243
in number We're compromised. The
conference report was adopted by the
House July 10. at the conclusion of
twelve hours continuous debate. The
report was taken up in the Senate