Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-26
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. GOING IT BLIND. No Programme in Congress
 This Week. 4 CHANGE FOR LOG ROLLING. The Tariff Outlook Not Par
 ticularIy Bright. A STEAMSHIP LOST AT SEA. The Survivors Rescued Ali:
 ter Great Peril.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Nearing the End-The Last Week of
 COngress-No Programme of Business Laid Outline Chances for Tariff Re
 vision Growing Beautifully Less-Dem-
 ocraIic Opposition to the New Rule.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-There is no defi- mite. programme for work in the Senate dur ing the coming and last week of the session. The appropriation bills have the right of
 way The Utah bill holds it's place as pres sing business and will be disposed of at the first opportunity. An effort will be made to pass the shipping bill. The fate of the bank ruptcy bill is uncertain. Outside of the ap- propriation bills there will probably be general legislative scramble. Under the rules of the House it is in order during the coming week for any member who can secure recognition by the chair to move to suspend the rules and do whatever the House may see fit by atwo-thirds vote. The deficiency ap- propriation bill and the river and harbor bill are about the only measures likely to receive consideration in the ordinary way. After the call of States for bills for reference to- morrow an effort will be made to secure the adoption of the rule reported yesterday, so that the tariff bill may be sent to committee of conference. What course the Democrats will pursue is uncertain and will depend upon circumstances as they arise. If the bill should be sent to committee of conference an effort will be made to effect 8 compromise between the House and the Senate on the iron and wool schedules and other points of wide divergence, and it is thought that if such a readiustment can be made in confer ence the bill may yet become a law. The deficiency bill will be reported tomorrow and taken up for consideration Tuesday. It will consume but little time in the House and be followed by the river and harbor bill. MT. Sherwin hopes to secure some time for vote on his educational bill, but it is very doubt ful if he succeeds. The whiskey men are on the alert for 8 favorable opportunity to con- cur in the Sherman amendment, but that opportunity is not likely to be afforded them. The remaining contested election cases will probably have one day for adjustment. The House is so evenly divided politically, and has been in such bad temper for so long time, that it will be g strong proposition that can secure two-thirds vote under suspen- sion of the rules, and unless log rolling is re- sorted to few bills will be passed in that way during the last six days of the session.
 United Press reporters to- night interviewed a number of the members of the House of
 
 bill There exists wide difference of opin- ion among them. The Democratic members say they will do nothing to prevent the pass age of bill. The Republican members say the Democrats will not oppose consid- eration of the Senate bill as it came from the Senate, but will oppose sending it to @ conference committee. This they assert will be- an indirect way of preventing it's consideration as they are well aware that it cannot be passed in it's present shape because several Republican members oppose the rates fixed upon iron, lumber and so forth majority of those seen tonight seem to think that the bill cannot be sent to a conference and that if it cannot be amend ed on the floor of the House it will not pass. It is believed that efforts to pass the bill by the different methods proposed will be made on Tuesday and that unless it is put through under whip and spur it will fail to pass.
 The Congressional temperance society held it's fiftieth anniversary here this evening. The secretary, Dr. Chickering, read an inter esting report giving the names of many of the prominent men who had been members of the society during the fifty years of its existence. Addresses were made by Repre- sentatives Dingley of Maine, Hill of New Jersey, J. Hyatt Smith of New York and by the Rev. Dr. Eaton of Palmyra, New York. :. Letters were announced from Messrs. Schuy- Ter Colfax Julius H. Seelye, N. Fl. Lamport and l.. W. Ballou, ex members of Congress and of the society, expressing confidence in the principles and practice of abstinence and it's usefulness as public witness and ex- ample.
 The President has approved the decision of Secretary Chandler in accepting the resig nation of Lieutenant Commander Gorringe, and he is consequently no longer in the naval service.
 A number of prominent Democratic repre- sentatives had 8 conference tonight for the purpose of deciding upon plan of action in opposition to the adoption of the new rule to non concur in the Senate tariff bill and send it to conference committed. Without taking definite action the conference was ad- journed to meet again next morning.