Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-02
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Speaker Carlieles memorandum DOCK
shows that nearly eighty members of the
House of Representatives have expressed
desire to speak on the tariff bill. This
measure will not come up under two weeks,
and its consideration may be postponed
few days beyond that time. Ii seventy or
eighty men have thus early announced that
they will speak, it is estimated that con.
sidersbly over one hundred will deliver set
speeches before the measure is out OF the
way in event that there is no limit to de-
bate. As is very probable. The House
meets now at II o'clock every day, except
Sunday. 1t takes twenty FIVE minutes TO
read the Journal and to hear prayer. Then
twenty-five minutes are consumed in mis-
cellaneous motions and announcements
from the Speakers desk, so that the real
work does not begin until one
o'clock. 1t is proposed, however,
that the House shall meet at III o'clock, 60
that actual work will begin by II o'clock
when the tariff bill is taken up. The sv-
erage speech OF member OF Congress
upon q question as broad and far reaching
as the tariff is about two hours in length.
The House adjourns on the average at
5 O'Clock Beginning at II o'clock to dis,
cuss the tarff and adjourning at 5 will
give but FIVE hours Of actual talk, and
it will therefore permit the delivery OF not
more than three speeches each day. This
woald make one hundred speeches IN
thirty.three days. At least one day In
each week must be devoted to other mat.
ters than the tariff, even after that measure
gets the riehtot-wsy, so that there will be
but Eve days of discussion in each week
and but fifteen regular speeches delivered
in the same time. That will make the
one hundred speeches run about six weeks
at the lowest estimate.
A good deal has been said upon the out
look for this long drivel OF debate. Even
the men who are prepared to speak upon
the tariff dread the thought of giving up
these weeks OF valuable time in the heat OF
summer, and many OF them favor some
proposition which will cut it off 1t is not
i'm probable, therefore, under the circum-
stances that it will be concluded best to
limit the debate to a very few days and
then TO take the bit in mouth and strike
cut the enscting clause Of the bill. There
is little doubt that when the bill comes up
for debate the sntitsrif refOrmers will
have msjority OF at least 10 and may be
Is, and they can strike oat the enacring
clause almost any time they want to, thus
cutting of debate almost instantly. There
ia a severe obstacle, however. in
the way OF such arbitrary action. Chair
man Morrison, the author OF the bill and
the head man OF the Ways and Means
Committee says that there must be full de.
bate. He ia determined that il his bill is
to be defeated it shall figure as prominent
ly before the country as possible so that he
may secure due credit for what he has
done. In event the euscting clause Is
stricken out preemptorily and for the pur.
pose OF shortening the session OF Congress,
Mr.. Morrison, it is said, will feel prone 10
delay the session as long as it would natur.
ally be delayed by full discussion Of the
tariff. When resolution is offered IN the
House. where it must originate, to fix a
day for the adjournment OF the first SEES
sion of a Congress it is always re.
ferred, under the rules, to. the Ways
aud Means Committee. Now, il Mr.. Nor.
rison gets in bad humor from any action
of the ma or;ty in reference TO his tariff
bill, he will of course smother all resolu.
tions fixing days for ad ournment, and will
set back and defy the House to adjourn till
he gets ready. With this fact staring the
House in the face, it may be that it will de.
termine best to permit full debate and to
keep the tariff reformera on the Ways and
Means Committee Ia as good humor as
possible, 80 that an sd journment may be
reached by the first Of August instead Of
September The Tariff, The Navy Recon.
srructou, and Inter State Commerce Bills,
it is believed, will occupy at leass eight
weeks in debate unlecs some kind of an
understanding can be reached whereby the
talks will be limi'ed Then it will take a
week to pass the Snndry Civil Bill and
three or four weeks to pass the other arpro.
pria'ion bills, which will run the session up
to Angus. if nothing Else is considered.
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Pensioners throughout the country are
receiving propositions from pension agents
here in reference to special Legislation in
Congress The peDaion agents propose,
where pension is already being received
ard an increase lie refused AZ the Pension
Office, to get through Congress q special
act increasing the pension for a certain
amount of money, generally SO to S25
Pension claimants are answered that sps
cial act will be secured whereby their
names vii! 10 placed on the pension of
so4 certain sum Of money. A Repp' ,licar
Senator Of MANI yesrs exper,'' nee wbf
has had mach to do with par .,on leeisla
ton, has asked Ne to ..nDouncs to til.
country thst no nom ! should be paid tc
tension sHeo's u' -er any consideration fol
Tor any hiho VI proposed legislation. H.
says 'as' the pension agents imposed upon
tas ,enstors and Representatives in the
work of procuring legislation for claimants
and that the money therefore which is paid
10 the agents by the claimants ia thrown
away, and that il special act is desired
for the increase OF pension, for new rat
ing, or for an original pension, it should be
made directly to the claimants member OF
Corgr"s, where the application will go,
even If it is sent TO an agent with fee.
The pension agency business has run down
very largely during the past three or four
years, and the ambitious agents are msnip-
ulating all kinds Of schemes TO make
money; therefore their propositions to claim
ants should be considered very carefully
before being complied with.
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II 10 probable that tanners in some por
tons Of the country will have introduced
TO them new indnstry-that Of producing
jute. Considerablein investigation in regard
to jute culture has been made by the STATE
Department through It's consuls in Scot.
land, where nearly all the article is grown
at present. Jute is raised in Ireland also
and is very largely imported into the
United States to be used in conjunction
with the manufacture Of our fax. Jute
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