Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-05
TARIFF BILL NOT READY
Its Completion Is Now Promised
For Tuesday Morning.
DULL WEEK AHEAD FOR THE HOUSE

DULL WEEK AHEAD FOR THE HOUSE
The senate VIII Put In a Few More DAYS
In Waiting For the Tariff Bill-The OPP
posing Combination Is Strong and Active.
The Iron Schedule Uncertain.
: WASHINGTON, March 5-There will he
lull in the house for several weeks after
the excitement that has existed there since
the holidays. 1t is the intention of the
house managers to push the consideration
of the appropriation bills to the exclusion
of everything else during the coming week
Two days, probably three, will be taken
to complete the consideration of the pen
sion appropriation bill, which has been UNI
der discussion for the past two days. After
it is disposed of the District of Column bla
and consular and diplomatic bills will con-
sumo the balance of the week. When
these are completed, the election cases will
be taken up and then the house will re
turn to the other appropriation bills.
Senate Waits For the Tariff Bill.
The senate has made so little progress to-
ward legislation during the past two or
three weeks that the calendar has been
changed only in very slight degree, and
the special orders made some time since,
except in the case of few speeches, are
still undisposed Of The printing bill, the
Russian thistle bill and the McGarrahan
bill all hold their places whence they can
be called up in order, but they are subject
to displacement if any Question of more
general Importance should be presented,
even though informally.
If the tariff bill should not be reported
during the week, it is still likely to be re-
ferred to and speeches made upon it, 1t is
the subject which is uppermost in the
minds of all senators and is liable to APP
pear unexpectedly in some shape.
There probably will also be Il few more
speeches on the Hawaiian question. Sena-
tor Gallery has not yet made his speech on
the subject, of which he gave notice some
time since, and there are also other sena-
tors who probably will wish to be heard if
opportunity offers. For the rest, and if no
other general subject should present itself,
the senate may be expected to take up the
calendar and dispose of as many of the
minor bills as possible.
The Democratic members of the senate
committee on finance find it necessary to
take at least one more day to consider the
tariff bill before presenting it to the full
committee. They had been very anxious
to complete the bill Saturday, so as to be
able to lay it before the full committee to-
day, and they did not relax in this purpose
until the last moment before completing
their work, but they found that it had been
necessary to give so much time to the SEN
ators who wanted to be heard on the Vari-
Gus schedules that they had comparatively
little time for consultation.
Consequently they We're unable to send
the bill to the printer and postponed this
until today, when they promise to COM
plete the bill in time to have it printed for
presentation on Tuesday morning.
The committee have progressed SO far
and have heard the dissatisfied senators so
fully that they feel confident now of being
able to carry out this programme although
there is considerable detail work still to be
done.
OPPOSITE ~ Is Active.
While some of the schedules of the bill
have been agreed to for the time being by
the committee, the work is not considered
finally concluded upon any of them, and
important changes are liable to be made
up to the last moment before the meeting
of the committee. For this reason mem
beers of the committee decline absolutely to
give out any of the rates fixed. They also
refuse to confirm any figures published.
and while they do not say that the rate of
40 cents per ton on iron ore and coal is err
rOneouS they assert that whatever nSureS
they may have agreed to on these articles
are still subject to change and that as it
is with these articles it is with the en-
tire list.
The contest between the members of the
committee and the disconnected element
has been vegy sharp. Senators Hill, Cor
man, Brice, hte, Gallery and Smith and
possibly two or three other senators CON
stitute ii very compact organization, and
they constitute an influence which the
committee is finding it difficult to resist.
These senators have been in constant con-
sultatiOn. Still members of the committee
do not believe that the opposition of the
senators will go to the extent of opposing
the bill by their votes. Sugar is still, rs
it has been from the start, the most dis
turbing element with which the committee
has been called upon to deal, and there is
far greater trouble in fixing a rate salts
factory to the retiners than to the planters.
The Republican members of the commit
tee have not changed their purpose of ask
ing for an explanation in committee of the
changes made, and they will Insist upon
explicit and comprehensive statements.
Not to Become a Justice Today.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator White
has fully recovered from his recent indis-