New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-23
CONGREssMEN IN NETWORK.
WHAT Is SAID ABOUT PUBLIC BUSINESS.

no..pry NO TARIFF ixaIsIATION-wILL THE
PRECEDENT GALL AN EXTRA SESSION.
w.mpeu q Congress and other Intelligent observers
rsturuins from wsshinston ts week aeiee IN the
ga. tbsrs viii DO NO tartn financial Legislation during
ans present session Is perfectly apparent although
MT Morrison would probably indignantly deny H. 'nA'
the chairman Of the Ways and Means Committee deter
mined taat any bill modifying the sarin IL en"cteo 'n'
viner It shall DO Substantially the measure that bears
ois pame and which PROBABLY received Its quietus as
saturday He has stakoh his ell, politically on the sue
ecss OF that measure since his constituents went
bsck upon him sst eeosos. no IL more obstinate
IN regard to II than ever.
A Republican Senator said yesterday that he doub'co
n majority Of the Democrats desired the enactment on
tariff log slsnou during this session. Any bill tina"
you'll DC possible TO pass must tall far shortol wpa' n'
Free Traders have educated thsr followers TO eApec"
and would not therefore. be satisfactory while con-
nuancc of the present condition Of things VII cause tho
popular denaud for immediate legislation 70 ne 80 gro
next winter % TO make possible TO get through some
thing more nearly approaching freetrade Dill 'nAn
unything that could bocome q law this winter.
In this connection there Is consid srabe earneet discus
sion OF tue PROBABLE chairmanship OF the Ways and
Means Committee Of the next Congress- 9. Q. Cohs
Aggressive candidacy has stirred up eood Zeal o al"
tasonisn especially among tue frends OF heprsSe"'a
Ml,ls of Texas 81 don't see what Is TO 20 mono WIN
MILL, 1, Cox gets the Ways and Means" said Demo
cratic Con. ressmsn yesterday. Cox siways "an's
everything presume he'll think he Is candi'at" Ior
the Sponsorship before next Dccember AS for putting
him at the head of Ways and Means IL wouid DO III
outrage Mills stands second ON that commuoei 10 10
IN full accord WITH Morrison and Carlisle aud msIcry
of Tho Democrats OF tue House He lis az least as aoo a.
Morrison. and think him the equal OF Cox. don't
,e now the Speaker 10 gong disregard bis claims ana
put anyDo ~ else IN that place
"Iou know that the chairman OF the ways anu 4"o"N'
10 longer the leader Of the House oy reason
OF his position. Before the Appropriation ois "0'0
tna QfiO
ittee was that gave it's holder most innuenee
and San. Randall is the real eader-the dictator OF the
House YOU might call him. He Cannot always get MS
through put God uelp tue bill that he earn
esty Opposes! 1t stands mighty little SHOW Nc. sam
Cox viii la, content WIN some otner place s,
In This same connection. gentleman VINO arrS ca from
Washing yesterday ID has exeocn' ~ 1 hMv ,E"t
n,rss Congress- made provision for reducins the
SUI. Jus rcvrt ue ,r tor or 81 March president
would cali extra SESSION vi Cougiess Ana
he sad thar hc Was no. alone ~ ..s p 'S, n the
House refused consider the Morrison b ne az no.
know wuat enrct nuluation from the Pfesdeh' ehat
Ia ,un feel II nIs duty to convoue tue Consres' IN
the String woud have upon tue Donocras; he tuouent
that tuey woui Prefer 10 Wait until next winter pooro
or Linz M. commuters aud would hesitate 10 take
bom OF these troublesome question, OF the tarn anu
nuance in Spring, wlh the cortaiu prospect oi
iuus struggle extending far III. o tue Skinner TO-,
Tue prevailing opinion among hose wno haV1 ihr
from ne last day or Two Is mat thero
is grave aaugrr Of tue passage oi the inef-S ae I'm
bill Senator Cuons anxiety 70 .e Win
tue enactment vi law Oh this euc)cet has apparently
go tic better his JUDI and led h 10 accept Tue
worst features OF tue Reagan bi-tho provisions ia
regard TO Snort hanl and forUdcing cooling III is
also r that about half dozen We stern hcpuo' an
Senator's agreed advance to support the conferences
coumittse's re, OFT IL this Ia true, the Dill VIII Dc
passed, tDey lie made To sec tue ineUta"H
elects OF -nactment aud eni0cem9st upon
buslurss In tie Western Sa,es There will be long DE-
bats ON tire conference committees report AFTER the no
day recess, several Senators having already prepared
speeches agust If tIe bill was before The eonht'
III sucI shape That 1t could be amended or sent oacA W
the Instructions to modify IT, soinet Mug
OF tn.t Aind would DO but 1t must be accepted or
rejected as II ia - , s.
Republic say that II is becoDing more ana more
evident every that the one great issue
of tue next Presidential campaign Will 10 ne tarin
Whatever 10 III II, next TWO sessons tIs
Qtest n will e settled ueUre tho summer OF 1885,
tut ITS solu lou will becoue more and more urgent AS
time ias Tue PfOtertohisis IN tne DeloSiou'
uariy of whom Jaere will nIOrs III 1855 'han now,
may break away from It, and tue Few sraggne free
IL adrrs Republican ranks remain III the party,
but the lines will be dra Il tighter than ever.