Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-23
THE TARIFF OUTLOOK
The Ways and Means Committee
Anxious to Get to Work.
FRICTION IN THE SENATE LIKELY.
How the Repea! Bill May Be Fl
naIly Passed.
SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP

The House committee on ways and means
held their first meeting today. 1t was for
the purpose OF organization and was brief
Subcommittees were appointed. The resig-
nation Of Mr.. Springer. the clerk OF the
committee. was accepted and the chairman
authorized to appoint a new clerk. There
was NO discussion to amount to anything;
nothing to indicate the policy of the COM
mittee. Mr. McMillin and Mr.. Turner were
not present They adjourned to meet next
Tuesday.
There Is an impression that the chair
man Of the committee, Mr.. Wilson. is not
in any special haste to get a tariff bill into
the House before the beginning Of the next
session. Yet he has said SO little on this
subject as to leave but little warrant for
an assumption as to what he desires. 1t
Is believed. however. to be the desire Of a
majority Of the democrats on the committee
to have the work of the construction Of
the bill progress rapidly as is consistent
with the importance OF the measure.
The Length of the Session.
Upon the assumption that this session
will not expire until about the time for the
regular session to begin. there Is an anxi-
ETY. to perfect a tariff measure to
have it reported before the regular session
begins. There seems to be very little reason
to anticipate speedy ending Of this ses-
.on zion. , Even should the repeal of the Sher-
now, that would not necessarily hasten an
adjournment If that repeal is accom-
tached to the bill. its adoption will be due
to the fact that 1t will receive the votes Of
great many members of both the House
and Senate whose constituents are crying
for more currency.
And these men will be anxious to make
amends for any apparent affront to the
opinions Of their constituents by giving
them the relief which they seek after law
ing given the relief which the eastern A.
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able, therefore, that a majority will be
disposed to remain here and attempt at
once to pass some financial measure which
will meet with favor among those people
throughout the south and west who do
not look with favor upon the unconditional
repeal of the Sherman law.
May he Friction in the Senate.
The warning given by Senator Voorhees,
that If he saw his banking bill being used
as a means of obstruction to action on his
repeal bill he would move to lay it aside
and go at once at the repeal. gives an in
dication that there may be friction over
that measure before the Senator gets
through with 1t. and that there is pos
sibility of its being hung up If the repeal
men can develop the majority in the Sem
ate.
1t is claimed by the repeal men that
there are eight southern Senators ranked
among the silver men who will vote for the
order to carry that measure through be-
comes apparent, and II an unmistakable
uilDuSteT on tNc part OF IOe silver men Oe-
velops an attempt win be made to force a
vote by the process of pairing out the fill
busters by a continuous session.
Possible Parliamentary Play.
If this should fail the repeal advocates
will probably have recourse to a parla-
mentary play. equal in shrewdness to that
mapped out by the silver men In connec-
ton with the bank bill. An unconditional
repeal measure will undoubtedly be adopted
by the House by a large majority. Instead
of taking up this measure when 1t comes to
the Senate the advocates OF repeal in that
no other way to overcome the difficulties
confronting them can be devised they may
suffer the bill to be amended
1t would then go to the House, where they
could count on concurrence in amend
ment and the matter to be thrown into con-
ference: where 1t could be much more easily
handled by the administration forces. IL
the House persisted in its non-concurrence
In the Senate amendment. the -pportunity
would be offered to Senators who are now
afraid to offend their constituents by vot-
ing for unconditional repeal to change
bility upon the House by voting to reccde
from the Senate amendment This would
accomplish the repeal.
From such situation. If developed.
would result the unconditional repeal of
the Sherman law, and nothing else and the
representatives of the south and west would
be left to make such amends TO their con-
stituents as seemed to them necessary un-
der the circumstances, and they would be
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Reckoning thus on the shortest way OF
disposing Of the repeal question. there still
remains an apparent reason for a prolonged
session.
The State Bank Tax.
There is a strong force among the demo-
Gratis in the Senate in favor of the immed;-
ate repeal of the tax on state banks and
other financial legislation in the nature Of a
sop to the people who are clamoring for
enlarged circulating medium. and there Is
undoubtedly determination in the House
to dispose of these measures, if possible
before an adjournment. 1t is believed that
the banking and currency committee of the
House. which is expected to do some very
important work during this Congress, has a
ma jority In favor of the repeal Of the state
bank tax. and of the immediate passage of
such financial legislation as they think will
supply the deficiency in the currency of
the country.
They viii probably. therefore, get to
the House for action on some measure blythe
time the night over the repeal bill is finally
settled between the two houses.
Congress is therefore likely to have
enough to occupy its time for a while no
matter how soon the sherman repeal is
that measure does not now seem probable
Plenty of Time for a Tariff Bill.
The ways and means committee there
fore, Is likely to have an abundance Of time
for the formation of a tariff bill IN commit
tee before Congress is ready to adjourn. If,
however. the committee is not ready to re-
port by the time the other work Of Con-
gress is disposed of a recess until such
time as the committee is ready to report is
much more probable than an adjournment
of the session.
1t is the desire Of many Of the leading
men in the House. who are anxious to act
promptly on the tariff question. that the
that members Of the House not on the COM
mittee may have an opportunity to study
its provisions and be able to consider 1t in
telligently as soon as the first regular ses-
sion begins. The idea Is to begin the con-
sideration Of the tariff bill Immediately on
the meeting Of Congress in December IT,
indeed. It cannot be called up for considera-
ton In the House during the month Of No
vember.
Another for Kentucky.
Secretary Carlisle today appointed Henry
e. Boyd Of Kentucky superintendent Of