National Republican., 1883-01-16
rItr nEG1sLATLyE OUTLOOK.
Probability That Many Important Meas
ures Wnl Fail for Want OF qImc TO
Cnnsihcr Uhcm.


Probability That Many Important MCns-
urcs Wnl Fail for Want OF Time TO
Consider Them.
Between eighty and hundred bills were
introduced in Congress yesterday. OF course
but few OF them can become laws. Indeed,
but few can pass that branch of the national
legislature into which they were introduced,
even should they be reached on the calendar,
and still fewer can 90 through all the stages
There are but thirty-cight legislative days
left, taking out tho "eulogy days" and there
are some bills that might occupy the entire
time without their giving all the ideas gn
airing. Tho tariff bill, for instance, has been
under consideration in committee for more
than thirty-eight days already, to say moth
ing of the tariff bill in the senate. That
huriedly prepared measure Of revision
occupied three weeks or more and day
of discussion finds the revisers not onc-third
Of the way through the first schedule, which
is by no means the most important ono.
About all that can bo expected is that after
parading the tariff in all its bearings, and
fully discussing each item from bOraX 10 man
utaCturcd wooden, the experts will suddenly
drop TO n little tariff bill that will revise sugar
and steel aud put il through along with the
excellent revision of that part of the tariff law
which has to do with It's administration.
That by itself would he worth the effort, since
it removes the hindranCcs to importation and
makes that important branch Of commerce
easy by removing the petty charges for pack
ing and transporting from custom house con-
sdcraton. 70 say the least, it is reasonable
to doubt the passage of any bill in
thirty. eight days along with all the other
business that will revise the tariff up and
down the list. The iron mon, the glass men,
tho champagne men, the cotton men, and the
woolGn men, to say nothing of the sugar men
and the tin men, arc waiting around to take
a turn at the members, with Il better prospect
for getting what they want in the house than
they had in committee, and the assurance
that they shall have another chance NJ the
members before tho vote There are hum
dreds of them. The bills that must have at
tcntion before the month is past are by no
means such as can be hurried. The navy ap-
preparation bill, for instance, will keep the
house busy for q week il everybody has show
at it, With itS cutting down of titles
raise the sailors who have good
places and good prospects to n pitch OF
legislative earnestness that will bring them
down upon the influential member in way
to consume much time If it does nothing else
The sundry civil bill will he another long
one in the matter of discussion, and IL may
be that the whisky bill will come i'll for q
the case if the bonded period could be signif-
Cantly extended at one sweep to suit every
| body. Then there is the report of the Missis.
/ sippi river special committee to come with its
minority report. and chance that there will
| be an effort to shut down on the annual eX.
| pcnditureof large sums of money to try
experiments with mattresses and narrow
channels; and, before all thesescan be con
/ sdcrcd. there is Judge Kelly's free
tobacco bill, which will not be worth a pinch
Of snuff if kept back much longer Will
more than half the regular appropriation bill'
| passed, and the civil service reform bill out o.
! the way, it would seem that there was timC
left to do wonders in cOmmendable legisla
/ ton but there is not. The railways need no
feel uneasy about their grants, nor the indus
/ tries crippled by prospective legislation, fol-
most af it will be prospective at the last day
of the session. The regular appropriation
/ bills will stand as the basis Of the sessions
work, while over it all will float the red
/ white, and blue civil service reform bill as thu
sole ornament in the way of legislation no
/ impcTatiyey demanded.