Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-02
THE OMAHA BUILDING BILL.
A Conference Committee of Both
Houses Appointed.
THE OUTLOOK is FAVORABLE.
Laird's Measure For Soldiers in State
Homes to Be Favorably Reported
Paddock's PostOffice Bill
Other Capital News.
A Fair. Minded Committee.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
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The conference committee on the part Of
the senate and the house on the Omaha
public building bill was appointed to-day as
follows On the part of the senate-Spooner,
of Wisconsin, Quay Of Pennsylvania, and
Vest OF Missouri; for the house-Dipple Of
South Carolina, McShane of Omaha, and
Kennedy of Ohio. The committee will not
have meeting for several days and Mr..
McShane leaves for Omaha tomorrow.
All the members of it are liberal
minded and will be inclined
to comply as nearly as possible, it is believed,
with the wishes of the people of Omaha. MIR.
McShane will make a fight for the full
amount which the original senate bill appro-
priated, and says he believes the three con-
ferees on the part of the senate will be with
him. But the democrats in both houses are
making fight to keep the appropriation for
public buildings down as low as possible so
as to give tariff revision as good a showing as
possible, the theory being that if the surplus
IN the treasury is reduced the chances Of sue
cess for tariff revision is proportionately re-
duced Everything is being relegated to the
interest of tariff reform. The outlook is
hopeful however, for the full appropriation
in this case.
SOLDIERS IN STATE HOMES.
The subcommittee of the house committee
on military affairs having the measure in
charge has agreed to make favorable re-
port on Mr.. Laird's bill giving 800 year for
the support of each soldier received at state
homes who would be entitled to admission to
the national soldiers homes. Mr.. Lards bill
is the same as the one recently introduced on
+ba in, bo hy Mr. MaplarSOn
FAVORABLE TO PADDoCK's BILL.
The senate committee on public buildings
and grounds have had under consideration
for some time, and have finally agreed to re-
port favorable, upon bill introduced early
in the session by MIR. Paddock of Nebraska,
providing for the erection of apostoffice build
ing in every city and town where the post
of SlO,O year. This measure has been
very widely endorsed by the newspapers
throughout the country, and number OF pc
titions have been sent in asking for its pas
sage. The bill provides that the building to
be erected shall not cost more than the ag-
gregate revenues Of the postoffice for the last
three years, and Mr.. Paddock argues
that 1t is not only measure OF convenience
but economy. 1t is shown that the rentals
| paid by the government for postoffice build
ings amount to much more than fair rate of
| interest on the sum of money that would be
| required to carry out this plan, and that q
| handsome public building in each town and
city Of more than five or six thousand
| fit. A board is provided for, consisting
| Of the secretary Of the treasury,
the secretary of the interior, and the post
| master general, to superintend the erec-
| ton of such buildings, and the plans are to
be drawn in the supervising architects office.
| An appropriation of $2C00,000 dollars from
the surplus revenues Of the postofiice depart
ment and $4,000, 600 from the public treasury
is made by the bill, and 1t is expected that
the committee on public buildings and
grounds will report it on next Monday.
THE TARIFF BILL REVEALED.
Without any ceremony the administration
| tariff bill was made public at half past 10
| this morning. AS anticipated, the republican
means had no suggestions to offer to the ar
| bitrary majority, who have framed the bill
without consulting their minority colleagues,
| and the committee was in session but few
| minutes. Chairman Mills expected the min
| orty to have considerable to say about the
| bill and to make requests concerning the pro-
cedure to be taken into considering the
| measure in the committee and reporting it to
| the house, and was surprised when he was
informed that as he had composed the bill
without suggestions from the minority the
majority ought to be able to proceed with,
out its directions as to the con.
sderaton There was no h1 discussion ms%beDs o.
of the committee, and their meeting was but
of q few minutes duration. Members of the
house were supplied with copies of the bill as
they arrived at the capitol, and at their leis
GLANCED over its provisions Very few
warrant them in giving deliberate opinion
| but the best informed members on the subject
of tariff declared that it has moi
a ghost of chance of passage
following for the administration bill than
there was for the Morrison horizontal bill
the consideration of which, it will be remem
bered, was refused by the house by ver'
duty on iron will keep the Randall following
solid in Pennsylvania, while the cuts ol
| sugar rice and few other articles produced
by the south will enable Randall to have al
| increased vote from Louisiana, Georgia an
! the Virgnias and Carolinas. Free wool set
ties the democratic support in Ohio an
drives all members from that stat
into the line of opposition t
the bill, while the Pacific slope is made sol
in the opposition, by not only free wool, bu
produced on the Pacific slope. II Rar
dali was enabled to command owe
forty votes in opposition to the Morrison bill
| he will be able to vote third more men o
his side of the house, II one can estimate TN
early upon the expressions being given; tn
majority members OF the committee on way
| and means, as was true in the last two col
, crosses, claim to have enough votes in tn
) house to secure the passage OF their bill.
WHAT REPUBLICANS THINK OF 1T.
Tonight met General Brown, of indiana
one of the leading republican members of tn
: committee on ways and means, and aske
. him what he thought of the bill. II
said: "The bill was graciously stuc
Z | under the noses OF the mino
ity this morning for the fir.
time. can give no opinion of its merits
I haven't read it and have given it but a hu
Q ried glance. That, however, satisfies II
| | that in its secret and mysterious preparatio
: the democratic majority has had an eye
the partisan as we'll as to the economics
parts of the tariff question"
I | AMENDMENTS TO THE G. A. r. PENSION Bill
1t was golden opportunity for the senator
1 | who are bidding buncombe and notoriety wht
Mr.. Henderson called up his disability pc
SION bill, and they embraced it. BY propo
ing more liberal provisions for the bi
0 certain senators hoped to gain fav'
Q with those who are the ben
, ficiaries even though the amendment
!, I had the effect of killing the measur
y Others who are at heart really opposed
1 the bill offered amendments which increase
D the liberal provisions Of it, with the view
5 loading it down. Between the two class.
h IL begins to look as though the bill would
. so amended that the house, IL not the Sc
\ ate, would refuse to pass 1t. I'll
q senate committe had the measure und'
a careful consideration for weeks, and whit
it was reported it not only met the unar