Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-04
THE pArrr coNeREss.

 [ THE DAY IN CONGRESS. . The Senate Resumes Debate on tn
 Tari6BIn and Senator Chandler Ar
 Gued in Favor or Postponement fol I as Least SIX months-Little Busi ness in the House.
 | WAsHINaToN, May 3.-There was not th usual call of the senate this morning fo the purpose of obtaining quorum, th attendance of senators being rather large than ordinarily.
 A request from Mr. Berry, dem, of Ar kansas, for unanimous consent to take uI bill on the calendar was objected to by Mr. Morgan, who moved that the senat, proceed to the consideration of exeoutiv, business in conformity with an order oi the senate made ten days ago.
 The motion was agreed to, and at 11:3s the senate proceeded to executive buainesi upon the Chinese treaty.
 The doors were reopened at 12 m., fur. thsr consideration of the Chinese treaty having been postponed until Monday, and immediately aftsrward the consideration oi the tariff bill was proceeded with.
 MT. Allison, rep, of Iowa, appealed to MT. Harris, dem, of Tennessee, in charge of the bill, to let the first amendment. fix ing the time for the bill to go into effect, pass over for the present.
 Ir. Vest, dem., of Missouri said that SO far as he was concerned he had no objec. ton.
 Mr. Harris said that the matter was wholly immaterisl. Of course the time at which the bill would go into effect would be fixed later; and in order to make more progress, he would consent that the amend ment be passed over for future action.
 MT. Hoar, rsp., of Massachusetts, con- graduated Mir. Harris, sarcasfically, on continuing to make progress.
 And the senator from Tennessee, MT. Harris, retortsd, ''Hopes that the senator from Massachusetts will join him in msk- ing progress"
 without action and the second amendment was taken up-being the insertion in the first paragraph of the words Cor with drawn for consumption
 MT. Quay, who has been entitled to the floor every day since April IA, alternating with MT. Dolph, rep, of Oregon, yielded 1t to Mr.. Chandler, rep., of New Hamp- shire, who said that he had been desiring for some time to reply to some observa- tions of Mir. Palmer, but had had no op- portunity until now. The senator from Illinois (Mr. Palmer) had said that the country had had sufficient notice of tariff legislation in the election of MT. Cleve. land, under the democratic platform, but MT. Chandler argued that the country was simply bound totake notice of bill for I'd rf& for nn1u and pared to take notice of the bill that was to be passed.
 He argued in favor of 6 postponement, for ntleast six months after its passage, of the time for the bill to go into effect, in order that the people might get ready for @ bill which was as different from the plat form of the democratic party ss black was from white, as light from darkness. No mortal man could tell the senate or the country what sort of tariff bill manufsc- turers and merchants would have to adapt themselves to. They would have to pre- pare for Q bill which would be @ mixture of all kinds of principles, of all kinds of theories, of all kinds of measures. That bill vas to be made item by item, and at last the question would have to be tested whether the bill would secure majority.
 At the conclusion of MT. Chsndler's ASAAAot oS ~<AA- Tuoy RkoSccaCo Wtth ahotACi of his speech. After speaking for some time MT. Quay moved to proceed to the consideration of executive business. The motion was rejected.
 MT. Hoar, rep, of Massachusetts, came to MT. Qusy's relief by @ question to Mr. Voorhees,, chairman of the finance commit tee, as to the estimated importa,ions.
 Later the senate adjourned. MT. Hoar after adjournment complimented MT. Voor- hees on the adroit way in which he had evaded direct answer to the inquiry.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 At 1925 and after the transaction of un- important business the house went into committee of the whole on the river and harbor bill, Mir. Hatch, dem, of Missouri, in the chair. No effort was made to limit general debate on the bill and speeches were made by Mir. Catchinss. MT. Cannon, MT. Hepburn, rep, of Iowa, and Mir. Weadock, dem., of Michigan.
 MT. Cannon in his remarks criticised the failure of the committee to put new or continuing work appropriated for under the contract system.
 MT. Hepburn criticised the committee because in the preparation of the bill 1t had not divided the money equally among all the congressional districts, but had confined them to 179, just enough, If every representative voted "aye," to pass the bill. He pleaded for fair division of the "pork in the barrel" among all the districts of the country. To secure this as far as he was concerned at least MT. Hep- burn gave notice thst he would at the proper time ask to have the bill amended by giving to the eighth Iowa district s55,- GOO, the proportional amount due each district under the bill for the purpose of improving the highways therein by the ex. clusion of water therefrom.
 Mir. Ray, rep, of New York made a semi humorous complaint of the partisan ship shown by the committee in the prep aration of the bill, referring especially to the Susquehsnna river, which runs through his district.
 MT. Boatner made the last spec ch of the day, urging that related appropriations be made in accordance with the general plan adopted by the Mississippi river committee for ths improvement of that stream.
 Before the house adjourned the commit tee on appropriations was instructed to make appropriations in the legislative and judicial bill as far as applicable in accord. ance with the provisions of the bill passed yesterday recognizing the accounting branch of the treasury department.
 ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME. 1t Is Believed That the Coal Miners,
 Strike will Soon be Settled.
 PITTSBURGH, May 3.-There are indiea- tions of a change in the miners strike situ- ation. This morning President John Nc Bride of the Miners National association arrived in Pittsburg. On the same train with him were J. 0. Morton and MT. Chap man, two of the largest coal operators in Ohio.
 President Mcbride went directly to the Home hotel where he met Secretsry-Treas-