The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-30
THE REPEAL MEASURE.
Promptly Reported to the Senate
for Action.
THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
ME Senate Finance Conmittee's Bill
offered as q Substitute for the Wilson
BiiI-To be Considered to tho ExoIu-
sion of Other business. .... .-

offered rs a Substitute for the Wilson
BiiI-To be Considered to tho ExoIu-
sion of Other Business. $685..
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-The chairman
OF the finance committee was las he prom
ised to be) very prompt" in reporting to
the senate the action of committee on the
house bill to repeal part of the Sherman
law. As soon as the reading of Mondays
journal was finished Mr. Voorhees, rose
and reported back that bill with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute,
1t was placed on the calendar and will be,
according to the notice given by Mr..
VOORHEES,, pressed for consideration, to
the exclusion of other business. The sub
stitute is, word for word. the same bill
that was reported by the finance commit
tas two weeks ago. The first speech
against the substitute was made by Mr..
Gordon (Dem., Ga,), who argued that 10
would delay indefinitely the repeal of the
Sherman law, which he wanted to be i'm
mediate and unconditional
Mr.. Teller (Rep.. Colo) made q long ar
gument to show that the Sherman law
had not produced the existing financial
strinsency. A resolution which Mr. Stew
art had offered last Monday, inquiring Of
the secretary Of the treasury whether there
will be deficiency in the revenues OF the
government during the current year. was,
after long discussion, referred to the
finance committee
There was an interesting executive ses-
sion of the senate, at which there was an
outcropping of politics and silver. After
batch OF names had been acted upon
Senator German, acting for the steering
committee, submitted proposition that
at this extraordinary session of congress
financial matters, and they alone, should
receive the attention of the senate. This
stirred up the silver men from the west,
who at once began an assault upon the
proposition suggested by Mr.. German
They took the ground that the session
would be long one, and stated that they
would never give up their fight for silver,
and prophesied that Dec. l would find
congress still in session and discussing tho
financial question, No action was taken
on Mr.. Germans suggestion.
The feature of the house proceedings
was the debut Of Mr.. Crisp as a speaker On
the floor. He was led to leave his chair by
some caustic criticisms made by Mr. Reed
upon the proposed code of rules, and his
appearance upon the arena OF debate was
warmly applauded. The discussion be-
tween the two leaders was very animated,
but led to no conclusion. No action was
taken npon the rules.
The official vote on the passage Of the
Wilson bill shows Boatner Dem, Ia.) and
Capeheart Dem, w. Va,) not voting.
This makes the total: Yeas, ESQ; nays,
1U9
At a meeting of the wisys and means
committee yesterday it was decided to pro-
coed at once with the preparation of gem
eral tariff bill, and give hearings in the
course thereof to persons and parties in
terested Formal action on this latter
point was not reached Mt the meeting OF
the committee, but in the interchange of
opinion upon the subject, solicited by
Chairman Wilson, there was no objection
expressed to granting hearings. The first
application for hearing has been received
from James NJ. Swank, manager of the
American Iron aud Steel association.
Chairman Wilson announced the follow
ing subcommittee to have charge of the
several subjects named in the preparation
of tariff bill:
On observation-disclosures. Wilson, Whiting,
Breckinridge, Reed and Burrows
On internal revenue-Messrs. McMillin,
Montgomery, Bynum, Hopkins aud Payne
On administration of custom laws
Messrs. Turner, Stevens, Tarsney, Payne
and Gear.
On the public debt-Messrs Bryan, Mo
Millin, Whiting, Burrows and Dal1ell
On reciprocity and commercial treaties
Messrs Cochran, Bynum, Tarsney, Gear
and Dalzell.
After the adjournment of the house, at
the request of majority of the committee,
Chairman Wilson yesterday afternoon is.
sued a call for meeting of the committee
this morning, al which 1t is desired and
expected that the question of hearings be-
fore the committee. how long they shall
last, what classes Of persons and interests
shall be heard, etc. will be decided. The
Democratic members are anxious to get to
work upon bill so that it may be ready
for report to the house by the date of the
regular session in December or immedi.
ately after the holidays at the furthest.