Connecticut western news., 1890-07-09
THE NEWS OF CONGRESS
An Agreement Reached on the
 Silver Question.
CERTIFICATES A LEGAL TENDER.

The Free Coinage and Bullion Redemp- ton Features of the House Bill Will Be Struck Out by the Conference.-The Reciprocity Question in the Senate. WASHINGTON, July 7-The conferrees on the silver bill expect to come to an agree ment at their meeting today. They have practically come to an understanding under which the free coinage feature of the senate substitute and the bullion redemp- tion feature of the house bill will be struck out, and that the certificates to be issued under the new law shall be a legal tender. The points of difference between them now are the questions whether the law shall go into effect immediately or thirty days after it's passage, and whether the amount of silver to be purchased each month shall be $4, 800, 900 or 4, 800, 900 ounces.
 Tariff Legislation in the Senate.
 WASHINGTON, July 7.-The members of the senate finance committee show no great disposition to get together for the further discussion of the tariff question, and from this indication it seems more than likely that the real battle on the tariff will not begin for some time-perhaps not until next week, perhaps at the end of the week which is just opening. The committee has yet to take under consideration the reel procity question. It is the desire of sev- eral of the Republican members of the committee that this question be acted upon in commit tee before it is brought before the senate. MT. Hale, who introduced the amendment embodying Mir. Blaine's idea, told reporter of the United Press some time ago that he did not expect the finance committee to act upon it, but that 1t would be taken up in the senate as an independ- ent amendment and debated there.
 Against MT. Blaine's Scheme.
 It now appears that not only did the members of the finance committee have the reciprocity question under discussion before MT. Blaine's letter was sent to the senate, but they laid the matter informally before the president for his sanction. They then learned that it was the intention of the president to send to congress letter on the subject written by MT. Blaine, and not wishing to anticipate this action they did nothing further in the matter. They can hardly be said to favor the Blaine proposition, for the proposition that was laid before the president by them differed
 
 state. A member of the finance committee who has been quoted as favoring Mr.. Blaine's reciprocity scheme said to a re- porter of the United Press few days ago: "We cannot agree to reciprocity on sugar which would affect only one-sixth of the amount which we consume. That would be simply to increase the profits of the pro ducers of that sugar which is admitted free with no reduction of cost to the con- sumer"
 No Free Wool, Said He.
 The same Republican senator said that the senate would not accept any reciproc- ity proposition which involved the ad- mission of wool free of duty, suggesting that there was 'too much politics in wool. !" | The reciprocity question has taken very vague form as yet, but it is among the possibilities that in some shape it will be adopted by the senate. An effort will be made during the coming week to bring the Republican members of the finance com mittee together to consider it.