The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-05
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
The Senate to Wait for the Report
on the Tariff Bill.

The House to Continue to Make a
Show of Industry on the Appro-
priation Bills The Printing Office
Bill the Unfinished Business Before
the Senate The Speeches Looked
For.
Washington, March 4.-The Senate
will wait for the finance committee to act
on the tariff. The House will continue to
make a show of industry on the appropri-
ations bill to atone for some of its recent
bad behavior. This, in brief, is the prob
able congressional programme for the
present week. There will be all sorts of
side motions and discussions to fill up va
cant intervals. In the Senate, Hawaii is
standing dish, and is likely to remain
SO for some time to come. Senator
Carery. of Louisiana, is one of those
who has given notice of an intention to
sneak on this subject and there is some
curiosity to hear his maiden effort at ora
tory in the Senate Inasmuch, however
as MIR Caferys notice of motion ante
dated by several days the publication of
the testimony taken by Senator Morgan's
committee, it is not likely that Mr. CAT
fery's speech will present any novel
points, unless he has very considerably
revised it since his first intention was an
nOunced.
THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
The unfinished business before the
Senate is the bill to remove the existing
death-trap and to build a new govern
ment printing Office. Disputes as TO sites
have hampered the consideration of this
measure heretofore, and now, by the re
marks Of Senator Dolph, of Oregon,
on Thursday, tariff questions and the
whole subject of government expenditures
and receipts have been interlected into
the debate. 1t is quite possible that the
government printing Office bill will be
made the medium for a continued tariff
discussion under the accommodating rules
of the Senate which permit man, Will .
nominally addressing the Senate on one
subject, to contine his remarks exclu-
sively to another on an entirely different
topic.
The extreme improbability, as matters
now look, that the tariff bill will be in
condition to report to the Senate the COM
ing week, renders it the more likely that
a tariff discussion will be again started
by indirection by republican senators be-
fore the revised bill reaches the Senate
for execution.
IN THE HOUSE.
1t is expected that the appropriation
bills will hold undisputed sway in the
House. The general debate on the pen
sion bill will probably close tomorrow,
and then it will be subject to the lirnita-
ton of the five minute rule until passed
This stage of proceedings, Mr.. O'Nein, of
Massachusetts. who is in charge of the
measure, hopes and believes will be
reached by Tuesday afternoon at
the furthest. Following this bill
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill will be called up and then the sundry
civil bill. Consideration of these two
measures will doubtless require all the
time at present allotted TO the committee
on appropriations, but if they should not,
there are several other committees en-
trusted with the preparation of appropria-
ton bills ready TO report. The naval bill
the diplomatic and consular bill and the
postal bin are all ready. The morn
ing hour every day will see
some measure of more or less general
interest proposed for action, but the
speaker has not been advised of an inten-
ton TO ask consideration of any particular
question. II would seem from this
programme, as if the House would find a
difficulty in supplying its daily scene of
excitement ana turmoil, but in the pres
ent temper of mem bers so small a spark
seems sufficient to start an explosion that
an outbreak Of some kind is looked for at
any time, and on any topic.