Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-13
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE TARIFF PERFORMERS To Make An Effort This
 Week.
 GENERAL MILES IN A FIX. ! Foul Murder Done For
 Fifteen Dollars. A DARING MIDNIGHT ROBBERY. The Genuine Marcus May
 er In Mexico.
A DARING MIDNIGHT ROBBERY.
The Genuine Marcus May
 er En Mexico.
THE STRUGGLE ON THE TARIFF

| THE STRUGGLE ON THE TARIFF
 Likely To Be Launched This Week. l The Foes of Reform Will Try To | Slave Off Morrison = Senator Plattsa Effort To Sec cdre open Sessions o1 l The Senate-Other Matters To Come l Before Both Houses.
 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Congress enters
 upon another week of indefniteness to-mor- row. Speaker Carlisle, when asked by a United Press representative to-day what the House would likely dos repeated the answer of Mr. Sherman when q uestioned as to the ! work of the Senate by saying: "What we are likely to do one day ahead no one can safely say. There are many possibilities and few probabilities" To morrow is District of Co., lumbia day in the House and the chairman of the committee if he can hold the floor will call up the bill providing for school board of citizens who are patrons of the schools and the bill granting right of way for cable railway. But the impression prevails, even among the members of the committee on the district, that the order will be set aside and the House will continue the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill
 begun yesterday. This may occupy a couple of days, as portion of tomorrow
 will be consumed in the call of States for
 the introduction of bills, etc. When the
 sundry civil bill is out of the way Chairman
 Hatch will push his bill creating Cabinet
 office of the bureau of agriculture and labor.
 This measure comes up regularly under the
 call of committees, the call now resting on agriculture. MT. Hatch believes he can
 have his bill disposed of in day and a half
 or two days at the most.
 Then Speaker Carlisle says MT. Nor
 rison will likely call up his tariff
 nize MT. Morrison for this purpose at any
 time when 8 motion will be in order. The
 opponents of tariff reform will be led by Mir.
 Mckinley of Ohio, who will move toiay on the motion of Mir. Morrison on the table. There
 will be some dialogue over the matter con- suming the better part of day even though the motion to take the bill up fails. That the motion will not prevail is conceded by the tariff reformers to be likely. The Committee on Judiciary will make an effort during the week if opportu- nifty presents itself to get consideration of he
 bill amendatory to the Edmunds anti
 polygamy act. Friday continues to be pri-
 vate bill day, but is set aside for any meas ure of general importance. The conference report on the inter State commerce bill will
 be taken up in the House during the week if it comes over from the Senate in time. It is
 privileged matter and will antagonize suc-
 cessfully almost any other measure.
 MT. MorrilPs resolution against an agita-
 tion of the tariff at this session is pending in
 the Senate as unfinished business and comes
 up immediately after the morning hour to-
 morrow. It is expected that the report of the conference committee on the inter State
 commerce bill will be tal1en:up as soon as this
 resolution is out of the way. These two sub
 jects may consume half of the week however.
 By virtue of long delayed precedence the
 resolution of MT. Platt providing for the consideration of executive nominations in
 open session may follow in consideration;
 but it is not expected to coma before the
 Senate and in fact seems doomed to ultimate
 defeat. For several months before the ad-
 journment in August it stood upon the calen-
 dar as a special order, but it's author gave way
 to other matters until it was smothered with measures which demand consideration as of
 public interest. A number of times it seemed to stand on the verge of a vote, but
 each time the Senate passed to something else or adjourned over to the next day. Mir. Beck will urge for consideration his bill pro- hibiting members of Congress from acting as attornies employees for railroad companies holding charters or having received grants of lands or pecuniary aid from the United States, while among other special orders on the calendar there are those of Mir. Van Wyck for the relief of settlers and purchasers of lands on the public domain in the States of
 Nebraska and Kansas, and of MT. Logan au-
 thorizing the Secretary of War to accept 8 tract of land known as Highwood composed
 of five hundred acres in Lake county, H.,
 which will be taken up if time and circum- stances will permit.