The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-07
LIVE WASHINGTON TOPICS.
DEBATE .oN THE TARIFF BILL TO
BEGIN IN TIE HOUSE TO-DAY.

per's PInn for IA Conservatory OF Music
Black Eye for the River and Harbor Hi
wAsHrNGToN, May G.--The tariff debate OF
1890 will begin tomorrow in the House oil
Representatives. -Four days will be devoted
e. specchos Of n general character, and then
the bill will be taken up by sections. and the
debate will be carried on uudor the five minute
rule. 1hi, course will be proceeded with for
eight days. and on May ~ tho previous uucs-
ton will 10 ordered on the bill and amend
ments. large nun Der OF republcnn men,
bers are disappointed and indignant that such
q limited timo has been given for debate, hut
their protests are Of no avail. Chairman Nc
kinley and Speaker Reed have nut their heads
together and determined that tho flow of ora
tory must be cut short, and that the bill must
be rushed through in haste II is II favorite
saying OF the speaker and the Chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee that this Con-
gross is here Tor business and not for talk, and
they are bent on all early Adjournment
MIR. Mckinley will opon the debate to-mor-
row. 1t had been arranged that Mr.. Carlisle
should follow him for tho Democrats but
owing to his departure for Kentucky with the
Jieck funeral party it has been decided that
MIR. Mills shall make tho first speech for the
opposition. leaving 1t to Mr.. Carlisle to close
the debate for tho Democratic side. great
many members have prepared set speeches.
which they will deliver not with the homo of
Influencing any votes hut TO be road by their
constituents and to be quoted on tho stump
next fall.
Tho opponents Of the sugar schedule promise
10 Mo HiyS sn lbs to nS S
confdeuce hat this schedule will not DO
changed, They are also sangnine OF getting
rial amendments. If tho present programme
IL lived np e and tho ,licpubicHn leaders are
ablc TO hold their members together, the Tariff
bill will be in the hands of the Srnute Commit
Tee on Maya Tho real trouble viii begin thon.
1t is considered unlikely tonight that tho
silver question will be taken up in the Senate
tomorrow. as had been arranged. Senator
Jones was to have taken the floor for n great
speech in behalf Of the bill which he reported
IRON the Finance Committee The friends Of
the bills Tor tho admission oil tho new states OF
Idaho and Wyoming have been So rlamorous
for their consideration that it has been prac-
lcaily decided TO give them the bGlance Of The
UP on Monday Tho admission bills
have already PASSED :. the House. Eut
and to-day out OF respect for tho memory OF
the late senator Beck, it is probabl, that they
Ihore was another reason also for postponng
the consideration OF the Siiver bill ana that is
the hope that .compr lnise can Yet bo ar
ranged between the conference committees
that will result in a bill that can get tho en-
dorsement of all factions No confcrcnces arc
tion the conierrces will come together again
with the hope OF accomplishing something.
Capt. Isaac Bassett the famous old man of
the Senate. who has been nearly sixty years in
service, was missing from the chamber too day
during the funeral services OF the late Senator |
Beck; 1t Is tho first Inc in great many years |
! nat Mr BasHett has been absent even an hour
III yesterday. and his physicians advised him to |
rema n indoors for day or so, which he most |
consented to do.
Mrs. Jeanette NJ. Thurber announces that
ehe is about to organize a national conserva-
tory OF music in this city. and to found
music hall. Mrs. Thurber has been
giving this subject some attention TOR the past
two or three years. and has studied the history
Of like organizations In Europe She thinks
the proposed hall could take the form OF
agement to the celebrated Albert Hall in Lon
ion. erected by Queen Victoria as a memorial
fepSs Ar Board % has ss
etters Of endorsement from prominent men in
Now York. among them John J. Knox. William
Carl Schurz and Frederic Il. Coudert. The
dea Is to have school OF art connected with
contributions. and to be in every sense national
n its character.
Speaker Reed has settled the spirited con-
ests for assignment to vacant committee
places, and will announce his appointments to-
morrow. Thelo are nine places to be filed.
aused by tho death OF Representatives Randall
md Wilbur and tho oustinG OF five Democrats.
he CoDntttee on Rules. for which there has
seen such struggle 10y, the, leaders of the
chIer Of fonnnylvana o viii fIu be- asi
Q the Committee on Appl OPERATIONS The other
'laees ar, are unimportant. The appointment
ignincan1 in view of the fact that Messrs.
)risp OF Georgia, Holman of Indiana and
i Crisp was the candidate OF the opponents
4 the so-called Carlisle Mills free trade COM
nent may be claimed rs a victory for Mr.. Car
se; as he is und erstood to have been the
x-Speakers favorite candidate.
The friends Of river and harbor improve
1ents are Indignant and very much disheart-
nod at the action of the House Republican
aucus last night IN giving the annual River
nd Harbor bill black oyc by putting off its
consideration for three or tour weeks with 10
nderstood that Speaker Heed was in the plot
, put b;iacIes in tho way of The passage OF
us portions Of TIE country amounting to some
hing like t23.OOO 900. Mr.. Reed is not an on n
omen; OF river and harbor appropriations in
eneral. but he is an opponent OF the scheme
rovidinR for the construction OF the liennepin
anal The bill contains an appropriation of i
i0Q. 900 for the preliminary work on the canal. q
Those members OF Congress who have Tor @
,ars been ssbp a to make hGir col
ing vast sums Of money for local ri 1a and a
lrbor improvements In order to ray the pp- 7
icai debts OF tho REPRESENTATIVES are hope :
! that the Temporary defeat Of the Approuri- !,
ion bill means that a general sentiment Is II
owing ~ against this class of Legislation. g
hey have little warrant for their hoIe So i4r II
the present House is concerned. The Re- -
It, ways to the policy Of river and C
lrbor improvements. and they feel bound TO I,
Iss q bill of some kind, 1t is possible that y
o Hennepin Canal appropriation will Ge h
ricken from the bill. hut this will only make 8
reduction, Of SjoU.0OO; which Is n mere baga- n
lie to the large sum that will be added 10 the !,
II alter IL reaches the Senate. II has been -
Q practice for several years for the friends OF ~
Irious schemes OF more or less merit TO keen Il
en- dark until the bill reaches the senate h
~ then have them added In the shape If u
ice commitee or e1 pen re GonteT
uch easier to bring influence to bear than it ~
II. IA me House or Senate proper There Ia =
TIC doubt that the bill OF this year will PASS a.
usual and without material reduction In the q