The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-16
NOCALLERS,NOC CARDS
No Need Of Delay and Shall be
No Delay.
ALL TURNED AWAY.
Petitions and Persons Kept Out
of Committee Room.

WAsHINGToN. July 16.- Especial. =
'.We want no callers and no cards. p said
Senator Voorhees, when asked about the
progress made IN the conference on the
tariff bill There is no need Of delay.
and there shall be no delay. We shall
stick to the task and push the work vigor
ously till it is done" And apparently his
promise has been kept The Democrats
first met IN the room of Senator Voorhees,
committees and then moved to another
room, but even that does not appear to
have been private enough for them, and
most Of their work has been done no one
knows where. Inquiring journalists and
petitioners naturally went to the finance
committee room, but the genteel looking
and suave old doorkeeper waved them of
with tho statement that the senator was
not there, and he really couldn't say where
he was. All this time petitions and re-
monstrances were coming in by the peck,
and many persons, including members of
the house, were eager for a hearing, but
Mr.. VOORHEES, made the same reply to all,
The Democrats viii get together first,
and then the full committee viii be called,
and perhaps it viii have time to hear you,
and perhaps it viii not"
Increase or Internal Revenue.
The statement that Speaker Crisp and
Chairman Wilson had consulted the prcsi-
dent and heard his whole mind in regard
to the bill was denied at first as usual,
and afterward admitted. and it is now
known that the president is anxious to
have the strongest senate amendments set
aside and the bill passed as nearly as pos
sible in the form in which 1t left the
house. The extraordinary increase in the
internal revenue receipts, which at one
time reached SO, 000 COO per day, is taken
by all the treasury officials the turning
of the tide which has run adversely so
long To the public it is conclusive that
the increase in the whisky tax is to stand
and that the provision for allowing
whisky to remain eight years in bond I'M
der the new bin viii probably be approved
by both houses. 1t is estimated that the
payments on whisky taken out Of bond
before the new law goes into operation
viii be ample to tide over the period of de-
layed payments on new whisky, and even
if most of the latter should remain in bond
for the full term allowed the tax on it
Will come in about the time when the
bonds fall due All this and other treas
ury calculations are on the theory that
this tariff law is TO remain for several
years The managers ridicule any sugges-
ton that tie bill viii fail to become
law by the 1st of August, but the Repub-
lcans insist that it cannot be
Navy FUNK ISM
The appropriation bills in the senate
move with at least their average speed
and with no more than the usual partisan
racket OF course the naval bill and the
pension bill were made the occasion for
the usual patriotic addresses and partisan
attack and rejoindeT, but Senator Allen
varied the proceedings by sharp attack
on the 'aristocracy and funkyism' of
the navy. He wanted an amendment re
quiring the president in his share Of the
appointments to name only actual resi-
dents of the district TO which they We're
credited. Nfessls- German and Hayvley
rejoined that il was the proper thing to
appoint the sons of great military and
naval com manders in this way, and thus
keep up the spirit of the naval service
and after rather heated discussion Mr.
Allen amendment was defeated.
For some days the situation in Wash
ington was much like that in war times
and the stran gest as well as the strongest
evidence that congressman We're painfully
impressed was the fact that they refrained
during those days from making any par
tisan references to the strikes. AT tie
White House and the war department.
there were coming and going Of Inessen-
gers and officials, somewhat like the
scenes Of 1861, and every man at army
headquarters looked as if he felt the fate
of the country 20 be ON his shoulders. The
chaplains of both houses mentioned the
troubles in their prayers, and SO far as
can be learned, every preacher in the city
referred to them in his sermon, while sew
eral preached entirely on that subject
Since the excitement has measurably abat-
ed several statesmen have felt called on to
explain Senator Sherman says that his
much abused resolution for an inquiry
looking to a reduction of Pullman car
rates was really prepared before the trou-
bles grew flagrant and was introduced at
a time when they were thought to be
about over 1t was only by accident that
it reached the pubic contemporaneuously
with the worst fighting. Senator Kyle
has stifened up under the storm of criti-
cism more than would have seemed likely
in one Of his gentle appearance, and SEN
ator PETER comes boldly to the front with
another one of his comprehension bills
providing that the government shall take
charge Of everything, from railroad TO
telephone, and make every body happy,
from engineer to coal HEAVIER.