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The Senate Bill Goes

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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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Washington, Aug. )4. - An hour before lQo'clock, tlie time set for the house cau2us on the tariff, members began to arrive at the Capítol and hasty consultations were held on the course to be pursued. Chairman Holman called the caucas to order promptly and the cali for the meeting was read. Tbe roll cali which followed took some time and members shifted uneasily for the decisive action ahead. Cbairman Wi'son took the floor immediately after the roll cali and the general statement of tbe situation. He spoke calmly and dispassionately and receivecï the closest attention. Members left their seats and crowded eagerly about him listening intently to every word. It is seldom that such eager interest has been ■hown at a caucus. Kuiniin f rom the Speaker' Rooih. Vvhile Wilsou was speakintc the wor.l was passed around among members thut the conference in the speaker's room had resulted in decisive action and that Speaker Crisp himseif would move that the house would recede and accept the senate bill. At first the information was 60 Rtartling ibat it was doubud, but as member after member heard it aud made inquiry the opinión bccame general among the best informed men in the house that the report was correct. Wilson closed at 11:05 o'clock, having talked just an hour. It was understood, however, that Wilson had not yielded the floor permanently, but would resume later, after his conference associates, Montfjomery, McMillin and Turner, had corroborated his statements as to dates. Montgomery then took tlie floor and substantiated what Wilson h-ad said as to the details of the couierence. Crisp's Resolution Introduced. Speaker Crisp followed Montgomery. He said that as long as there was a desperate chance of securing concessions the house demanded he was in lavor of standing out, but he was now satisfied that tbe time had come when furtber iusistence by the house was useless. He closed his remarks by offering a resolution instructing the house couferrees to recede from the disagreemeut to the senate tamendments aud instruct the ways aud means committee to bring in separate f ree sugar, free iron and free coal bilis. A great burst of applause greeted tbe reading of the resolution, but half a dozen irate Democrats were ou their feet demanding recognition, prominent among them being Burke Cockran of New York. Owing to the lateness of the hour a rule was adopted limitinj' further speeches to five minutes. Then Cockran delivered a vigorous aud eloquent speech against surrenderiug to the senate. "Better no tariff legislathan the seuate bill," he said. Previous Ouestiou Ordered. The previous question was demanded ou the Crisp resolution and ordered by a vote of lia to 21. Among those who voted against the previou- question were the Louisiana members, Cockran of New York and others. Thirteen minutes were theu giveu to tbe opponents of the resolution to state their position. McMillin repudiated the statement made by Cockran that the senate bill was worsetban the McKinley law. Kobertson of Louisiana objected to the resolution on account of the free sugar provisión and g uerally protested agaiust the treatment of Louisiaua. He urged that it would be bad faith to cut off the Louisiana planters from the bounty on this year's erop on which they had reckoned when they put it in. Durina the fifteen minutes' debate Chairman Wilson rose and pleaded with the caucus iiot to take action. He said that whatever was tne mind of the house there was uo necessity for immediate and hurried action. McMillin of the ways and means committee also made a speech. He deelared in favor of the Crisp resolution, saying that the senate bill was much better than the McKinley law. Speaker Crisp's Kesolutlon. The resolution of Speaker Crisp as adopted is as follows: "Resolved, That it is the seuse of this caucus that the order beretofore made requesting a conference with the senate on the disagreeiug votes of the two houses ou H. R., 484, be rescinded. That the conferrees heretofore appoiuted on the part of the house be dischargedfrom further duty in that behalf aud that the house recede from its dis-agreement to the senate ainendments to said bill and agree to the eame. "Resolved, Further, that the house shall at once proceed to the consideratiou of separate bilis placiug the following articles on the tree list, vis: Sugar in all its terms, Irou ere, coal and barbed wire. The committee on rules is requested to report au order providing for the prompt cODSideration of such motion and bilis." This was adopted by an overwhelming vote, the nays beiug almost insignificaut. Representative Tucker of Virginia theu oiïertd a resolution thanking and commending the house referrees for their loyal service. This was adopted with a shout of approval aud the caucus adjourued. Voted Againat the Keeolutiou. Among those who voted agaiust the resolntion were: The Louisiana members, Warner of New York, Strauss of New York, Tracey of New York, Tarsney of Missouri, Cockran of New York, Covert of New York, Dumphy of New York, Cooper of Indiana, Johnson of Ohio, Kilgore of Texas. The Maryland delegatiou, Raynor, McKaig, Rusk and Talbot, Breckinridge of Arkansas, a member of the ways and means committee, aud Williams of Miselssippi alsó voted against the Crisp resó-lutiou. Most of those who voted against the first part of the resolution voted for the Si coud part.

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