The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-09
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS
The House Waiting for a Confer
ence Report on the Tariff.
TIE DEMOCRATIC ooNFEREEs MEET

Enuehvorin9 To EVOLVE . scheme Ihat
VIII Reconcile tho Differences Between
tho -Four Democratic Senators and the
Four Democratic Representatives.
WASHINGTON. July 9.-The house of
representatives will be resting during the
present week, ready at all times to lay
aside its regular business and take up o
conference report on the tariff or any ap-
preparation bill. Tonight the rules COM
mittee will meet to arrange an order Of
business, but whatever they agree to take
up will be conditioned on giving way to
the tariff or appropriations whenever o
conference report is presented. District
Of Columbia legislation occupies the house
today. For the rest of the week the rules
committee will probably give several days
for the bill to elect United States senator's
by direct vote of the people, and also sew
eral days for numerous bills of legal and
judicial character reported by the judiciary
committee.
The bill was sent to conference by tho
house Saturday, after it had non-con-
CURED in all the senate amendments. The
house conferees arc Messrs. Wilson (W.
.Va.) McMillin CTenn.), Turner (Ga.) and
Montgomery Ky.), Democrats, and
MessIs. Reed (Me), Burrows (Mich.) and
Payne On. ", Republicans. Chairman
Wilson left for West Virginia after his
appointment as conferee.
The first effort to reconcile tho differ
ences between the senate and house on the
tariff bill will be made today. The DEM
ocratic conferees met at noon in the
senate finance committee room. The Re-
publican conferees were not asked to be
present. 1t is not as a committee, there
fore, that the meeting Is held, and it is
understood to " the purpose of holding
no meetings Of the full committee until
the four Democratic senators and four
Democratic representatives have recon-
ciled all their differences The Demo-
cratic members of the committee say they
can expedite their work better among
themselves than they could If constantly
exposed to the harassment of the minority
confcrees.
With this program In view there may bo
no meeting of the committee as n whole
for week or ten days. In the meantime
the Democrats will proceed with the work,
and when agreements have been reached
in whole or in part the Republicans will
be called in, and the committee as a whole
will act on what the Democratic members
of it have previously agreed. Thisis SIM
liar to the plan followed by the ways and
means Democrats in originally framing
the bill. and by the Democratic members
of the finance committee when it was be-
fore that committee.
The committee on appropriations will
have the right Of way In the senate during
the week, and an effort will be made to
dispose Of number of bills which have
been held up awaiting the disposition of
the tariff, There is Il possibility that some
day early in the week may be allotted to
the committee on foreign relations, ms
Senator Morgan is very anxious to have
the Chinese treaty disposed Of. He thinks
that one day will be sufficient.
Senator Cockrell, chairman of the COM
mittce on appropriations. says that the
pension bill probably will be first taken
up. La'er in the week the smaller appro-
priaton bills, for Notifications, military
academy, postollice and other bills that
will not consume much time will no doubt
be disposed of. Itis expected that during
the week bills of local Importance which
may bepassed without much delay will
be considered in the two hours set apart
for morning business.
The resolution introduced last week by
Senator Kyle to prevent federal interfer-
ence in railroad strikes is still upon the
table and may be called up at any time.