Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-02
COLLINS LAST CHANCE.
AN IMMEDIATE VOTE OR A
SPECIAL DAY HIS CHOICE.

One of the Two to be Decided on To-day
Mr.. Randall Confident that He Can
Avert an Extra SessiOD-The River and
HarbOr Bill to be JeOpardized by the
Crush
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Members of the
Bankruptcy Committee, representing the
principal commercial bodies of the cOun-
try, are living on hope tonight. They
hope that Mr.. Collins will be "recog-
nized" tomorrow in time to make it pos
sible to get vote on the consideration of
the bankruptcy bill, and perhaps. vote
on its passage. But they are by no means
so certain as they would like to be about
1t. Speaker Carlisle, although not here to
speak for himself, is known to be ready to
recognize Mr.. Collins or any one else to
make motion for the consideration of
the bankruptcy bill. But unfortunately
he has promised a number of the other
members that he will ''recOgnizev
them for similar motions to suspend
the rules and consider and pass
bills in which they are interested,
and they have precedence of Mr.. Collins.
Most of them have public buildings bills
which they propose to bring forward in
these motions. Now, unless one Of them
will yield, MIR. Collins must wait, with
the possibility of an early adjournment
cutting him off. An effort will be made
when Mr.. Carlisle gets back IN the morn
ing to make some arrangement by which
the bankruptcy bill, either in the hands
of Mr.. Collins OF some one else, NAV get
recognition early in the day. If the man
having charge of it, whoever he may be,
should be 'recognized' by the Speaker,
he may move the immediate passage of
the bill under suspension of the rules
instead OF merely asking, as was at
first intended, that a day be fixed
for its consideration. The bolder move is
recommended by some of the friends of
the bill on the ground that they might as
well risk all at once as to get a day fixed
for consideration, say next Monday, and
ind themselves crowded out by an apprO-
prlatiOn bill or some other pressing
legislation. The more conservative
friends of the bill doubt whether they
could hold the twO-thirds majority they
feel reasonably sure of on a mere motion
To tlX day for consideration, should it be
changed to a motion for immediate pas
sage without opportunity for debate and
amendment 1t seems probable that a
motion to pass it under a suspension Of
the rules would fail, although the
motion to fix a day would probably
be carried. There are a number of men
friendly TO the bill whose constituents
require Of them that before voting for it
they shall at least propose and advocate
amendments, even though they be voted
down. No determination was reached
tonight as to the form the motion.
THE EXTRA SESSION sPOOK.
Mr.. Randall thinks that the Democrats
OF the House can and will prevent an ex-
ira session of the next Congress. He says
that the month of February, leaving out
Sundays and the electoral count day and
monument day, will afford ample time to
pass all the necessary appropriation bills.
The river and harbOr bill is not a neces-
sary appropriation bill i'm the sense that
the regular appropriation bills are, and
so if it seems likely to prove a serious OBJ
stacle in the way of the passage of any
regular appropriation bills it will be swept
aside.
LABOR's WAGES IN EUROPE.
Last summer, following precedents set
by Secretaries EVarts and Blaine, Secre-
tary Frelinghuysen had compiled from
the special consular reports an account
of the state of labor in Europe, which has
just come from the printer. The Repub
lican Congressional Committee here was
very anxious TO get this report last fall,
in order to bolster up Blaine's protection
speeches by quoting some of its statistics.
But Secretary Frelinghuysen would not
make it public then, so the Republican
Congressional Committee was compelled
TO content itself with some extracts from
the report, which it published just before
the close of the campaign. The most i'm
portant feature of the report, the careful
account of wages in Germany in 1884,
under the Bismarck protective system,
which went into operation between 1878
and 1880, would not have been of any
particular use to the Blaine boomers.
Secretary Frelinghuysen in his introduce
H. TToFT -,
EYarts report of 1878. ignoring entirely
the Blaine report Of 1881. Following his
example, and comparing the wages in
Germany as shown in the Evarts report
for 1873 with the Frelinghuysen report
for 1884, it appears that wages have fallen
considerably under the protective sys-
TEN. Those affected were chiefly masons,
carpenters. skaters, shOemakers, dyers,
typeSetters, casters, mOlders and similar
skilled wOrkmen. The heaviest reduc-
ton, however, was in the wages Of farm
labOrers. For manifest reasons this in
formation was not set forth in the prOtec
ZIONIST tracts which the Republican Con-
gressiOnal Committee published last fall,
and which purpOrted to contain Sab
stracts'' Ofthis report on labor in Europe.
GORMAN's VISIT TO CLEVELAND.
An Albany special says: Senator
German has written that he will be here
day noon train. He comes to confer with
the Governor concerning some Of the de-
tails OF the Inauguration. Like Speaker
Carlisle, MIR. German Is not pressing the
claims OF any one for Cabinet posi-
tiOn, and it is particularly untrue that he
has urged President Cleveland to give
Senator Henry G.. Davis, of West Vir-
ginia, a portfolio. President-elect Cleve-
land and Col. Lamont VIII leave for New
YOrkTuesdayan will remain until Friday
on Saturday. No one has been directly
invited to meet the President-elect there,
and no one will be invited specifically.
The President-elect wishes it understood
that the visit is particularly for the pur-
pose of meeting all who wish to speak
with him on important matters. He has
declined all social invitations for the week |
in New York before the Inauguration.
President-elect Cleveland has secured |
rooms at the Arlington, where Col. La
mont will live until Congress adjOurns.
Mr.. Hendricks intends to live permanently
at Wizards.
Senator German, of Maryland,
called on President-elect Cleve-
land to-day, and gave him
made for the ceremonies of the inaugu-
ration at Washington March A."
ELLIS NAVAL PLAN.
E. j. Ellis, of the House Committee on
Appropriations, will propose in commit
tee when the navy bill is taken up that
SS,O00,000 be appropriated for new
navy for the next fiscal year. He sug-
gests the following scheme of appropria-
ton: Completing monitors S3,000,000;
ten small gunbOats S500,000; gunbOats
on Admiral POrter's model $200, 900; two
irOn-clads of the type of the Impericuse
II. ", with an additional inch of armOr
and speed of 10 knots. Chairman Ran
dali will endeavor to block the little
scheme of his liberal Democratic COD
llague.
THE NAVY SECRETARYsHIP.
1t is understood here that Mr.. Cleve-
land has a strong personal liking for
Frank Jones, of New Hampshire, and
that Mr.. Jones can have the position of
Secretary of the Navy if he will accept
it. This and the offer Of a place to Mr..
Villas, of Wisconsin, seem to be the only
steps thus far actually taken by Mr..
Cleveland.