The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-07
TO PUSH THE TARIFF BILL.
The Democrats Now Ready 70 As
sumo the Aggressive.

Republicans viii of Course Try
20 Obstruct Progress in Every
Possible Way, but viii Not be AL
lowed to Score Much Success.
Washington, May 6.-Immediately after
the routine morning business tomorrow,
rrobably as early as IL 80 o'clock, the
Senate will go into executive session to
discuss the Chinese treaty. The finance
Committee will meet Tuesday morning,
and after giving formal consideration to
the tariff amendments, will report them
back favorablv
The course of debate after Tuesday is
somewhat predetermined. Tuesday Mr..
Uoar. of Massachusetts, will speak on
the pending tariff bill, and it is not I'M
1i.elv that Mr.. Aldrich will address the
senate on the revenue features of the
measure. Last week the clause fixing
the date when the bill shall take effect
was passed over, and when Saturday came
the discussion was ostensibly over the
second Senate committee amendment,
found in lines six and seven of the
opeuiug paragraphs, which adds to
The House provision that there shall be
collected on all articles imported from
foreign countries, the words ''or with
1ra,yn for consumption, 3" the rates of
duty etc Much of the debate of the
week following on the introduce
-i0n of the amendments will be
of an impromptu character con-
cerD1ng the changes made, and it will
doubtless be the policy of the minority to
draw out their opponents by caustic ques
lions and then embroil them in colloquies
as TO why and how the numerous amend
meuts came to be made
-..----- LONGER SESSIONS. -------------.-
Mr.. Harris, if the remarks he has
dropped are correctly interpreted, will in
sst upon longer sessions, and if this
course is pursued, the republicans will
meet it with such means as happen to
come to hand They will debate the bill
as at present until 3 o'clock, but after
that hour will protest against the further
discussion of the measure for the day. 1t
is not among the impossible conditions,
that if Mr.. Harris becomes persistent in
his desire for an immediate prolOngation
Of the debate, a mild system of tilibuster
ingmay be inaugurated by the minority.
The week will no doubt force TO the front
the line Of policy to be pursued by both
sides for the democrats, confident of
their ability now to ultimately pass the
bill, will assume the aggressive from this
time on.
THE ERA OF BUSINESS.
If Mr. Harris receives the aid he ex-
poets from the committee on revision"
which assistance is expected TO be ready
with its recommendations by Tuesday
morning. the present week will probably
witness an actual beginning of the long
promised era of business" on the
tariff 1t will be such an
era if the indomiEable will and
parliamentary pugnacity Of Mr. Harris
- II l.,
obstacles ne will first have to overcome.
Whether the democrats have really come
together and agreed to stand by the re-
constructed bill is doubted in some well
informed circles. 1t has been no light
task that Messrs. Jones, Vest and Cor
man have undertaken. All day yesterday
they bent their energies to the work
Of preparing the final draft of
the compromise bill, assisted by
treasury experts, and to-day brought
for them no day of rest. The revision"
committee met at 10 o'clock at the CAPT
tol, with an Industrious con tingency in
the annex, and it was only well on toward
evening that conclusion was said to have
been reached and the revised draft of the
concession amendments was ready to be
sent TO the printing Office. With this
printing of the proposed amendments, all
concessions end and the committee is pre-
pared to stand or fall by the bill thus
amended
CHANGES VERY NUMEROUS.
According to common report these
changes are very numerous, and in some
cases almost the entire schedule has been
reconstructed. Especially is this said to
b. true of the chemical schedule and the
iron schedule
Walter Stanton and his colleagues from
New York who have been here for the
q - E.,
Oh WOODEN goods, were in a comfortable
name of mind last evening and from this
iaCt, more than anything else, grows the
oeuet that the wooden schedule has been
amended to suit these gentlemen.
haW wool will, of course, remain
On the free list. A leading
member of the committee who asked to-
Gay II there was any possibility of raw
wool being switched from the free list,
replied with characteristic candor: "Not
oit OF IT. we have been held up right
ana left, but wool still remains free
We're we TO sacrifice that, pray tell me
what would be left of our platform"
Inc extremely suggestive secrecy which
mas accompanied all the important
changes made by the Senate committee
On lne tariff bill, is still kept up. Outside
OF three or four senator's engaged in for
HuIdtlng the amendments, it is doubtful
~ any one will know what they are until
lhey are reported to the Senate. 1t is
probable that these amendments will be
maze public tomorrow. If so, they will
Ve reported to the Senate by Mr.. Jones Of
arkansas, and referred to the finance
committee.
THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Appropriation bills will continue to en-
tage the attention of the House until the
t tfa, has been cleared of measures of
eudI character. There are the naval,
agricultural and Indian bills in sight for
on.S week, and the legislative, executive
anu judicial and general deficiency yet in
ss!tofe with the committee on appropria-
ions TO be reported. The first of the two
laSJ named bills will be placed on the cal
Suaar PROBABLY the first of next week,
f GuO the deficiency bill is not expected be-
lore the end of the month.
Tallahassee Topics.