Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-04-23
HOUSE WILL Be BUSY.
Much Work Mapped Out
This Week.
MORE TARIFF SPEECHES,
Harris May Soon Propose Msa 'ure
TO Prevent Dilatory Tactics.

wAsHNGToS, April 23.-Appropriation
bills will continue 10 occupy the attention
Of the house during the week after today,
which, under the rules, will be devoted TO
the consideration of business reported
from the District OF Columbia committee.
On Tuesday the diplomatic and con
sular bill, which consumed the maj
portion Of last week, will probably be flu
ished, and on Wednesday the postofilce
appropriation bill. the consideration Of
which was interrupted by the departure
| OF Chairman Henderson of the pOstofiice
! committee AS one OF the committee to at
tend the funeral of the late Senator
| Vance, will be resumed.
The only item in this bill undisposed OF
| is that proviling special subsidy for the
| fast southern mail As "A strong fight is
being made 20 cut of this appropriation
| II may require two days 10 get IL out Of
the way The general impress seems
| TO be that the adversaries of this appro-
priation will not he able To defeat it, as IL
! has earnest champions not only In the
! south, but In the north and west.
Business II so far advanced in the house
/ that no attempt will proba bly, be made to
deprive the committee on claims Of Fri
! day, the day set apart under the rules. for
the consideration Of bills on the private
calendar. After the pQstollice bill Is com
pleted, the army bill will he taken up,
and should IL be completed, the river and
harbor bill will follow. There IL little
chance, however, that the latter bill will
be reached this week.
More Tariff
The prospect is that the tariff debate In
| the senate will continue this week much
on the same lines as have been observed
since the agreement for the regulation for
hours Of debate was entered into, not
withstanding the arrangement that the
reading of the bill by paraP 6phs shall be
begun on Wednesday at o'clock.
The Republican senators are counting
upon the continuance of this program for
at least another week, and expect TO 60
on with their general speeches Just as
they have been doing for the past three
weeks
General debate" said Senator Aid
rich, In discussing the outlook, Twill con-
clude Tuesday at . o'clock, and will be
resumed Wednesday at l o'clock"
Senator Aldrich Is among those who
have not yet spoken upon the general feat
ures Of the bill, and he will not now
have time TO get in before the reading Of
the bill 10 begun. Besides replying TO
senator Mills, he will devote himself
especially TO the revenue features of the
pending bill.
The speeches announced for the week
are those of Washburn today Mills and
Palmer on Tuesday, Higgins on Wednes-
day and Cullom on Thursday or Friday.
Quay's Long speech.
Other speeches, among them one by
| Senator Lindsey Of Kentucky, may he
made on any OF these days, and II no one
else should be prepared 10 proceed at any
| time, Senator Quay will continue the
speech of which he has already delivered
several installments 1t is understood
that he has not exhausted more than half
Of the material he has collected upon the
various features of the bill, and that
when his speech Is finally concluded and
printed it viii. make a large book on the
tariff.
Senator Dolph may also at any time
conclude his unfinished speech. Senator
Mills is expected to reply In general
way for the mem bers of the finance com
mittee to the attacks which have been
made upon the bill, and his speech will
be about three hours In length. Senator
Higgins will discuss the Hawaiian ques-
ing, basing his speech upon the provision
contained In the first report Of the senate
bill for the Modification of the reciprocity
treaty with the islands and will advocate
their annexation to the United States.
Nine Republican senators will make
manifest their disposition to contest
| every inch of ground at the very begin
ming Of the discussion of the paragraphs,
as such, day after tomorrow. by at
40 ina fn haU ha ~ ba
! first paragraph providing that the new
! tariff shall 20 into effect on June 30,
! changed They will contend that the
custom has always been to give at least
six months notice in making a change OF
| the tariff laws. They also say that there
are other provisions in this paragraph
! which will require careful consideration,
and a number of them agree in saying
that IL Is probable that the chemical
schedule, the frat in the bill will not be
reached before next week.
! Harris Wants to Hurry.
Senator Harris, upon being asked, said
] that no agreement had been reached for
| the continuance Of the present agreement
as TO hours for debate, and he was not
prepared to say what would be done in
that respect when that stage of the con-
|
"It will depend upon circumstances, " he
said, whether we shall go on as at pres
ent. We possibly may during this W eek,
but should say not longer. We have al
ready had the bill under consideration
for three weeks, and its opponents have
consumed the greater part of the time
They certainly should have had oppor-
tunity to exhaust their long speeches, and
AZ n disposition should be shown tn com
tinue to make them, shall ask for an ex-
tension Of the daily time for debate.
1--WE shall have to come to that soon
IL it becomes apparent that those who are
unfriendly to the bill mean to adopt un.
dilatory tactics. think we shall begin
by meeting earlier, and IL that change
does not suffice to effect sufficient prog
fess, we shall gradually extend the hours
into the night, and will then begin a con-
test which must either exhaust the sena-
| tor. axhauat the dabatp aud raault in