The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-15
TOM REED IS INTERFERING.
Senators Are Resentful and More
Determined Than Ever.
NO AGREEMENT Is YET IN SIGHT.
Dccn Taught IA Lesson which
They WIN Heed.

Washington, July l4.-(Special )-Tom
Reed is responsible for the delay in the
conference report on the tarln bill. the
SENATORS decidedly object to the speakers
bulldozing tactics, and they Will have none
OF IL.
The report late tonight is that the house
will agree to the senate sugar schedule IL
the senate will accept the house WOOL
schedule This could easily be dore IL
senator Jones of Nevada would but say
the word. he holds the key to the situa-
ton. The Western wool men are opposed
to the house schedule, and on that account
the reported proposition of the house con-
ferees will not be accepted The indiea-
tons arc that the tariff bill will not be
reported 10 the two houses of congress
before the first of next week.
The Washington Post printe the follow
ing;
There is one political effect OF this
new tariff bill which must not be lost sight
Of" said senator Ca0ery of Louisiana
''rhe extremely high rates which have been
adopted and the general scheme OF the bill
will ALLEVIATE all the gold democrats. Fully
forty nlne-nftieths OF the gold democrats
cast their votes for Mckinley believing
that IN doing so they were preserving TINS
credit and the honesty of the government
hut never for moment suggesting tha'
the first act Of the republican admlnisIra-
lion would he such an Infamous bill ar
is soon TO become a law. II all the gold
democrats had voted Cor Palmer an'
Buckner instead OF for Mckinney it would
have resulted in the election OF bryan
In the future the gold democrats viii vote
for their own candidate and viii not con
tribute to republican success
Washington July lathe confereeS OF
the tarin bill found thcmsclV today APP
parently further apart than they We're al
the beginning Of the conference. There wax
no immediate prospect OF agreement ana
more than one member stated that the en-
tanslement was such that the sei'iemen
M rht be Indefinitely prolonged Inc!
state in very reserved manner 'hat 'her'
are numerous questions Of difference %"
refuse TO 90 into details, even to oIhe
senators and members.
From all that can he learned however
there has been general recession iron
the martial agreements made on the NOR
in,poriaut articles uu;il sugar, WOOL hideS
enc. can he definitely iXed.
Sugar is tn the princ'pai conlehl .,,n
| The best reports represent the mouse con
ferees. with speaker Heod behlhn tn.''
as holding out for The house sugar S,i' -",
without any change whatever. and the seh
AIRS quite as determined not TO yleid l
| this extent.
The senate confercas are disposed TO re
scnt ,ho efforts of Speaker Reed 10 lnhuehc
| the action of the confereee. the seuato'
nre inclined to constiuc the speakers par
4 cpation as unwarranted and arc apparent
ly more determined than before
The contendinR forces on the WOOL scncu
ule-thc carpet manufacturers ana the "o,
| growers-outsde the conference have prac
| tically reached an agreement which
is presumed will be ratified by the con
ferees. This agreement provides for tn
| restoration of the house rate of IL ana l
cents respectively on first and second rias
woods and on the third class article tn
wool men agree to the proposition of The
Garnet makers to eNtcnn the ulNlu'Hu IN
from 10 to IL cents making the rate Of
woods of this class worth less than Il Gem
dutiahle at cents pound and those wort
more than 10 cents dutiable al cents
This increases the rate on all the hlghe
grade wcols, which is agreeable to the woo
men and holds the carpet woods down I
a figure acceptable to the manufacturers.
The ronferees remained IN session unit
after & o'clock this morning and then nd
louIned until tomorrow They had M
reached the point whore they could ca
in the democratic conferees. II is impossi
BILE to say who has the advantage OF III
days work.
The outlook for a final agreement wa
said to be at a great distance.
Atlanta, Ga, July 1.-THE Journal
Washington special says:
Tho Southern democrats In the senat
are combining to fight the tariff when
is reported back TO the senate.
The conference committee yosterda
having definitely decided to take cottc
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