The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-05-04
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures In Congress
..The Tariff ON Iron.sThe
Funding Bill,

Fnnulne Bill
PENSION FOR Mrs. LINCOLN. The
House has passed bill putting the name
Of Mrs. Lincoln on the roll Tor a pension
of three thousand dollars annually. Mr..
Judd drew up the measure and got Mr..
Dickey TO introduce It, because Penlgyl.
vania and not Illinois had command Of
the floor. There has been considerable
talk about this matter IN the Senate, and
the bill will be opposed there, though It
does not seem a. r. II could be defeated.
THE FUNDING BtL1-Thc Funding
Bill has received little attention Of late,
1t Is handled gingerly by many members
Of both the Senate and the House. There
IIsa latent idea In their minds that It may
prove their de9truct6n-that the interests
Of the sections they represent may posi-
bly, be injuriOnSly afiectediby it and their
claims for denomination be denied on, this
account, There arc Others who. arc ma
king q bold, and vigorous opposition 70 It,
and these may be classed rs the repFesen;
tatives Of tho banks and the inaalonlsts
Of the currency, o." '''r
BusINEss N, CoaeREsS The House
will probably adjourn over on Thursday
nOxt from that day until the following
Monday in order TO enable the workmen
70 take up the carpets and put the cham
Der in order for tho coming Summer ses-
Sion. It's hardly probable that the Senate
will adjourn on the same day, for the rca-
son that there are not skilled workmen
enough to arrange tho two chambers in
two days. Very little work Of importance
Is now being done In any Of tho Commit
tees Of Congress except the Appropriation
Committee and the Ways and Means. It
Is generally felt that to increase the large
humber Of bills which tho House Commit
tees have now pending, and which have
not yet been reported or ready to report,
would be mere waste OF time. The
Committee Of Commerce Of tho House
alone has had nearly six hundred bills,
petitions and resolutions referred TO It, on
more than one hundred different subjects,
and it Is very improbable that action win
be taken by the, House on more than one
halfof these measures. m gqgw HID
Tue TARIFF ON 1RoN.-The iron Sec
ton Is about done with, and the. rates
fixed are materially lower than tho exist
ing law. Pig iron is reduced from nine
dollars 10 five dollars per ton, and railroad
IRON from seventy centsto sixty cents per
hundred. The highest class Of bar iron
has been reduced from twenty.eight dol.
lars 10 twenty-five dollars and forty cents
per ton, and tho other class from twenty
two dollars and forty cents to eighteen
dollars per ton. Small reductions have
bccn carried on some other forms Of Iron,
Out In tia main they stand about as In the
present law. The sLaternont ,lIaS been
made IN this as well rs In other cores
pOndence from Washington, that the
WAYS and Means Committee reported In
favor Of raising the duty on railroad iron
u one dollar per hundred. The language
Of the bill in tho opinion of many mem
bers of the House certainly warranted
this conclusion, but some members Of the
committee say this was not their inten-
ton, and to-day General schenck brought
in an amendment Of phraseology so as to
make the bill explicit frfthis regard. The
great contest on steel will begin to-mor-
row. There arc seven paragraphs under
this head, each one Of Which will be
warmly debated for lower rates than the
Committee have reported. II a production
corresponding to Tint on iron Is carried
some Of the Pennsylvanlans say they will
be ready to give up the bill. 9