Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-10
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
THE INFLUX OF BILLS TO CONF
MENCE TODAY.

n HfoDablllty that Nearly 900 will be
introduced Before the ROII-Can of
the States is CompIeted-Repres
tive Converse to Ask the Restoration
of the Old Duty on Woods.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-One of the
things that the anti-Carlisle men predict
ed SO confidently was that his election
would cause panic in New York. There
has been in the past few days falling off
in certain stocks in New York and an
effort has been made to attribute it to Car
isles election. A prominent broker from
New York, ,whO-arriyedi in the city tonight,
said that the effort would fail because it
had nothing to base itself upon. ''The
stocks which have fallen off have done so
because of their own demerits. Only a
few brokers are trying to create any i'm
preston other than this,' he said, ''and
they are heavily interested in the declin-
ing stocks. The nomination of Carlisle"
he continued, "has affected the markets
no more than the nomination of Randall
would have done, and that means not at
ALL"
BILL DAYS IN THE HOUSE.
The regular order of the business in the
House of Representatives tomorrow will
be the call of States for the introduction
OF bills and joint resolutions for reference
only.
On the first "Bill Day. of the last Con-
gress 722 bills were introduced before ad-
jOurnment, at which time 'EMassachu-
setts" had been reached in the call of
States. BY unanimous consent the same
order of business was continued during
the next parliamentary day and a portion
Of fh1 efnI
finished 1855 bills had been introduced.
1t is expected that the opportunity
tomorrow will be very gen.
orally utilized, and that
perhaps as many measures, new or old,
will be precipitated on the files and into
the pigeon holes of the newly organized
House by the time the call is completed,
as on the occasion above referred to. 1t
is probable that no business of importance
other than the introduction of bills will
be transacted by the House during the
week, and that not more than two or
three days Will be passed in session.
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIG ATOMS.
There is not as much talk of investiga-
tIOns by the House as there was before
Congress met. 1t is apparent, though,
that there will be some investigating.
Most of this Will be done by the Commit
tee on Expenditures in the Department Of
Justice. For this reason there is
an unusual amount of competition for
the craftsmanship of that otherwise
obscure and unimportant committee.
The subjects which it is now thought will
be investigated are the conduct Of the star
route trials and the payment of the spec
ial counsel in those and other cases, es-
pecially the election cases in South
Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana.
There is also a good deal of talk about
inv n-fIf mo fhn olan
Matthews appointment as Justice of the
Supreme Court was the result of a bargain
between Hayes and Jay Gould.
CHANGING THE WOOL TARIFF.
Representative Converse, of Ohio, has
prepared a bill which he will introduce
tomorrow if possible, providing for the
restoration of the rates of duty on
clothing woods, cOmbing wOOls, carpet
and other similar woods, to what they
were prior to the enactment of the present
tariff law. Mr.. Converse had conference
yesterday with Mr.. DelanO, President of
the National Wool Growers Association,
at which the latter gave the proposed
measure his Endorsements, and tonight Mr..
Converse said to an Associated Press re-
porter that he had no doubt that his bill
would pass the House by twO-thirds ma
jOrity.
POSTAGE TO BE FURTHER REDUCED.
1t is apparent from the way many
members talk that there is every chance
of further reduction of postage this SeS-
sion. The recommendations of the Presi-
dent in his message meet with much ap-
prOval. The members are very general
ly in favor of reducing postage ON
local or drop letters to one cent, and in
creasing the weight for the lowest limit
of postage on other letters to one ounce
and on newspapers to five ounces. The
success of the postal reduction of the last
session has convinced most people that
further reductions should be adopted.
THE RULES.
The report Of the Committee on Rules,
embOdying important changes in the con-
duct of legislation, is ready to be laid be-
fore the Senate and to be acted upon. In
the absence of other matters this report
may be taken up, though it is likely that
the Senators will prefer to take a longer
time to examine the proposed changes be-
fore acting upon them. 1t is not prob
able that any measures OF Importance
will be reported from the committees dur
ing the week.
THE COMMITTEES.
The membership of the Senate commit
tees will doubtless be finally arranged by
the Republican and Democratic eau
cuses tomorrow morning, and the
ELECTION" of the committees by the Sem
ate will quickly follow.
BILL To PROMOTE SHERIDAN.
Congressman Davis, of Illinois, will in
trOduce, tomorrow, bill providing for
the promotion of Gen. Sheridan to the
rank of General of the Army, and of Gen.
Hancock to that of Lieutenant General.
EXTENDING THE BONDED PERIOD.
The whisky men will, by petitions
which will be introduced tomorrow lay
the basis for bill, to be put in hereafter,
extending the bonded period two years.
HAMMOND OUT OF DANGER.
Mr.. Hammond is regarded to be out OF
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