New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-27
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NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
CONGRESSIONAL AND POLITICAL TOPICS

HOUSE AND IN THE SENATE.
The possibility of an extra session is dis
cussed in Washington. The President has given
no Indication OF his purpose, but his fricnds
are OF opinion that he will not call
one. General debate on the Tariff
bill was had in the House Speeches
were made by Chairman Kelley. Mr..
| Tucker and others The debate will be ended
to-day In the Senate the metal schedule was
further considered. Senator Kellogg intro
duccd an amendment to the bill substituting
the Tariff Commissions for the Finance Com
mittees sugar schedule.
THE POSSIBILITY OF AN EXTRA SESSION.
| IBr TELEGRAPH To THE rRIDUSEl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-If the President has any
intention Of calling an extra session OF Congress IN
case of failure TO pass Tariff bill as was reported
he has kept 1t very much to himself. member Of
the Cabinet when questioned said that on the con-
trars he supposed eiiors would be made to avoid.
If possible, even the usual extra session of the
Senate
! The general opinion Of Republican members
seems to be overwhelmingly against an extra session
| OF Congress. 10 il argued that the country would
much rather be sure of nine months more Of cer-
! tanty npder the present tariff than 10 see Demo-
cratic House embark at once on Q revision OF the
|
| President would under any circumstances hasten
! the disturbance of business interests which Is IN
VOWED III the meeting of Democratic Congress-
THE HOUSE AND THE TARIFF BILL.
GENERAL DEBATE TO TERMINATE TO-DAY
| SPEECHES BY MEssRs KELLEY, TUCKER AND
OTHERS.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUSE.i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.--That blessed period may
be slowly approaching when there will be no gen
eral debate" in the House of Representatives upon
bills which to receive after consideration In tho
| Committee OF the Whole, where every line Is to DO
thoroughly scanned and undergo the ordeal of dis
cusson under the iive-mnute rule" Unfor-
tunately il has yet begun. and there is always
struggle. preceding the serious consideration OF
measure to obtain the largest possible allowance Of
| time TO be consumed in general debate" sort Of
discussion which Is simple waste of time to tho
extent 10 which il exceeds two hours.
The House will only occasionally listen two hours
even and the most convincing speech Is seldom an
hour long. Men who proud Of belonging to
" the old school," like the venerable Mr. McLane,
of Maryland, aud men who are proud of their fluent
tongues, like Mr. Springer for example, do notseem
to realize this. and to-day they insisted that until
next Tuesday noon the House should explate its
sins by submitting TO general debate on
the Tariff bill. Fortunately a largo ma
and, by vote OF 143 to 73, rejected it. Nineteen
Democrats and 124 Republicans voted against 1t.
The only Republican who vo,ed for it was Mr..
Darrell of Louisiana. Mr.. Randall mustered cour-
age enough to vote in the negative. General de-
bate will therefore, close at O'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
In the course Of the day speeches and remarks
were made by Chairman Kelley. who spent some
time in answering questions put By opponents OF
the bill, and by Messrs Tucker, Kasson Mills and
McLane. IL would not be just to say that anything
new contributed to the subject; and certainly
no arguments were used that will change single
vote. coloquy in which Messrs. Kelley, Carlisle.
Haskell and Morrison engaged, showed very wide
diversity of opinion to the effect of the provision
aboshing the duty on packages, charges. inland
transportation, etc. which are reckoned as o part
of the invoice value of imported articles subject to
an ad yaIOrem rate. Mr.. Kelley asserted that the
average reduction on the account would
| be about 10 per cent; MIR. Carlisle
contended that il would De less than
8 Der cent and Colonel Morrison insisted that 10
would not be more than ~ per cent. Mr.. Haskell
cited one case where the items mentioned amounted
to nearly 80 per cent on crate OF crcckery; and
he estimated the average reduction on this account
at 8 TO 7l2 per cent. He further remarked thar
in his opinion the average reduction made Dy tho
tons, aud 20 to 20 per cent on the basis OF rates
Colonel Morrison estimated the reduction nc
81 O0O, 900 on sugar and - 000, 900 on all other
SCI edules, while another Democratic member OF
the Ways aud Means Committee. Judge Kelley
said estimated the total reduction at $2OCOO,OVO.
Mr. Tucker, who delivered an entertaining
speech. which bristled with free-trade sophisires
and contained some remarkable misstatements OK
fact considering that he is member OF the Ways
ard Means Committee refused To guess even what
the effect OF the bill upon the revenue would be.
lie had discovered that " the dear people arc
faxed from To LIZARD and lie made the most
OF his discovery, while he declared that the tarln
system has been perverted from its original OBJ
ects for the purpose OF paying bountes 10 ana en-
riching monopolists. lie rapidly reviewed tho
history Of taiif legislation in the last twenty-five
years. pausing only TO drop tear Of regret on tho
grave OF the Morrison bill, which was stranged at
IFS birth in order that the Democratic party might
devote all its energies to counting in as President
the distinguish author of the Cipher dispatches,
and to bew all the fate of the Wood BILL the enact
ing clause of which was struck out by House
which contained large Democratic majority.
Abiding to the position of the freetrade Democrats
MIR. Tucker declared that "we have not proposed
any radical or destructive change All we want IL
to diminish the enormous tribute exacted by Amer
lean manufacturers from American consumers"
He has discovered that wages IN the United
States are higher than in other countries because
they are higher; that the tariff has nothing to do
with them except that because they are bieh
American manufacturers demand protective
tariff and Of this discovery also Mr. Tucker made tho
most. Ifanybody hesitates to believe that such
was the logic of the brilliant Virginia statesman,lee
him read the speech in The Record Further on IN
hs speech Mr. Tucker with charming forgetful-
ness or Inconsistency, read lot of figures IRON the
Census to prove that u tariff on about 20 rer cent
would be sufficient to protect America from ruinous
competition with foreign labor
1t would take much space to chase Mr.. Tucker
through all his vagrant wandenngs but one grossly
inaccurate statement WAS not coniradicted on tns