The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-26

idential Offices nearly two thousand, 30 that
this bill, " it passed, would call for the outlay
Of 500 600, 600. or course IL will not pass.
az do not think il will get through the oon-
mittee," said Mr.. Stockssger, the chairman Of
the House committee on public buildings aud
grounds, to your correspondent yesterday. we
have not taken it up for action yet, or discuss
ed it at all, bat 1 think l am entirely safe In
making that assertion. There Is, thiak, q
general feeling that where buildings are need
90 and money expended for rent Ii 10 well tet
the government TO erect thoso new buildinRs
SO far as possible. The money goes back ints
the hands Of the people In circulating, while
the government gets valuable buildings for the
use Of the people, yet do not think the cous-
mittee is ready to enter upon wholesale mat
ter Of this kind"
"Of the one hundred and thirteen buildings
asked for, Mr.. Stocksagsr, how many will Be
granted do you suppose?'
"That would be pretty difficult TO answer"
he said; "fmpossible in fact. think, how
ever, we have already reported favOrably near.
ly one-third OF the number Thirty-threo. I
think, is the precise number OF favorable -.
ports We have made. 1t takes good deal Of
careful work TO do this satisfactorily. We
often get several pressing dems nds from the
same State, cases where it seems the need fer
public buildings is very great yet OF course vs
must distroute our work as far as possible, and
so we are obliged to refuse in some cases what
Seem to be very just claims for pubic buila,
ings."
"Can you give any IDEA Of what the pressAt
Congress will appropriate for public bald.
ings?
mo, that would be impossible at present.
The demands continue to come In and IL We
should appropriate all that is asked it woula
be very large and OF course We shall not
There is, however, L think q liberal sentiment
in both House and committee in regard TO this
matter and whatever can be done reasonably
and In entire justice probably will be done"
THR WHIsKKY BILL.
TIE fact that the ways and means committes
has ordered the whiskey bill reported to the
House for action does not mean that the COM
mittes will support it with anything like
unanimity. On the contrary they send 1t back
to the House without recommendation with
the special purpose of permitting members whs
are opposed to It's passage to say 30 In opsa
debate in the House. The bill was not largely
discussed in committee, its friends hAvine
sounded the members pretty thoroughly AaA
found that an attempt to get it through on Ii
merits would probably be unsuccessful 30 iksy
concluded to ask the COMMITTEES to send u
back to the House without special recon-.
mendation hoping that by some chance II
might slip through that body. The chances
are, however, that it will not. There are some
members of the House, men OF experiences,
tOOt WAu Say budJ It's CQa0Gch are even less
than they were in the last Congress and every
body admits that 1t could not be parsed thez.
A member of the House from q whiskey pro-
ducing section, Democrat, and familiar with
the general sentiment from his side Of the
chameer said TO your correspondent yesterday
that he did not think the bill could possibly
become law, and the very fact that the coua.
mittee sends it back without recommendation
will be against it, while the further fact that
the whiskey people attempted to deceive ~
ha. n mr. mw.k
against it. You see they told Us last year whsa
they were trying to get the bill before The
House for action that they must have 10 %
matter OF protection. They insisted that
without 1t they we're ruined; that when the
whiskey came out of bond they would Be
forced into bankruptcy and that terribls
crash among vhiskeJ people aud among banks
holding their goods as security would follow.
We did not give it to them and yet We have
heard no crash and seen mono Of the
disaster and widespread ruin which they said
must follow failure to act. The consequences
is that when they come to as with the same
story again this year they do not get much
sympathy. Probably it may have been hard
have had to borrow money to carry their stock
but since they were able to get through one
year which they said must ruin them Without
this help it would be ditficnlt for them to make
Congress believe in any more stories Of this
kind.
The outside pr essure In favor Of this bill con-
tinuss very strong though there is q suspicion
That 1t is manufactured for special purpose.
chairman Morrison of the Ways aud Means
Committee, day or two since, said that be
mad received in single day Is dispatches 1Tr-
ing action upon the bill extending the bonded
period.
ARrHUR's CHANCRs FOR REORGANIZATION.
Recent developments In New York Point
strongly to the denomination Of Arthur. A
letter received here from a promiesnt Ht,
Louis politician who has been spending soms
time in New York says that all the leading cit.
les OF New York State will send strong Ar.
thur delegations to the convention. New York
City, Brooklyn, Rochester, Buffalo and other
cities Of the State, he says, will send solid Ar.
thur delegaii ons while the country will prob.
ably send un1nstructod delegations, men who
will be expected to support the best man Who
ever that may be. The consequence will be
probably that after the New York Stata della
cation gets together aud the influence Of the
instructed country delegations that New York
Will be solid for Arthur. There has been all
along general feeling among Republicans Ak
pressed in many ways and by men Of all shadss
OF factlonal feeling, that shosld New York
state 90 into the convention solid for any one
man assuring the hope Of the leaders that the
State can DO carried for hiIn, that man will BE-
nominated no matter what his name mar BE-.
Today in the face Of these recent developments
IL looks as though his name would ho ArthuY.