The morning news., 1894-04-02
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
VOORHEES, to Call Up the Tariff Bill
in the Senate To-day.

His Speech on the Measure $4,000
Words LonE-Voorhees Expects the
Final Vote to Be Taken in Six Weeks.
But the Republicans Think it Wont
Be Reached for Two or Three Months.
Bland's Fight on His Seigniorage
Bill.
Washington, April 1.-To-morrow about
2 o'clock, when Senator Voorhees,, chair
man of the finance committee, calls up
the tariff bill in the Senate and makes
the opening Speech he will inaugurate a
debate, the end and outcome of which no
man can foretell. Mr.. Voorhees, conf
IDENTIFY expects the final vote to be taken
within six weeks, but MIR. Voorhees, ex-
pectations on other occasions have not al
ways been realized. Some of his col
leagues are not so sanguine, and no repub-
Hcan is willing to fix period of less than
two or three months, within which
vote can be had on the passage of the
Senate tariff bill
Mr. Voorhees, speech, which contains
not less than 10, 900 words, will probably
be The only speech delivered tomorrow,
Mr.. Allison preferring to wait until Tues
day to make the opening remarks for the
republicans. Other senators who may
speak early in the debate are Messrs.
Hoar, Cullum, Lodge, PETER and Morrill,.
CALLS FIGHT.
In the executive session tomorrow
Mr.. Call will insist upon the considera-
tion of certain Elarida nominations upon
which he intends opposing the admins
tration.
Tomorrow, also, Mr.. Morgan will re-
port the Bering sea bill, and will ask
MIR. Voorhees, to give way Wednesday and
permit the bill to be taken up and kept
before the Senate until passed. This will
involve at least one closed executive
session.
Mr.. Morgan also tends to call up the
Chinese treaty on Thursday, and as the
debate on this convention will doubtless
occupy several executive sessions, the
outlook for the tariff debate progressing
beyond the two opening speeches during
the coming week is not encouraging Mr.,
Voorhees, is the victim of conditions that
were unexpected, and all the obstacles
will probably be brushed aside by the end
of the week.
IN THE HOUSE.
The order of procedure in the House
this week has been pretty clearly marked
out by advance notices from those in
charge of leading issues. What rate of
progress will be made, however, will de-
pend upon the presence of a quorum of
democratic members to consider and dis
pose Of the business in hand. Tomorrow
the O'Neill-Joy contested election case is
again to be taken up, and is to be pressed
to final conclusion under the provisions
of the special order.
The English-Hilborn election case from
the Third California district is included
within the terms of the order, and will
be taken up as soon as the O'Neill-Joy
contest has been disposed of.
BLAND's FIGHT.
Mr. Bland has given notice that on
Tuesday he will ask the House to take up
his seigniOrage bill and put it on it's pas
sage, 1.-THE objections of the executive to
the contrary Notwithstanding It is
hardly probable, however, that the cleo
tiOn case will be out of the way by
that time, as the managers of the House
do not look for quorum tomorrow But
the seigniOrage bill will be given the
has been fully executed. Mr. Bland says
his bill may 60 over by the action of the
House for two days, but gives no intima-
tion of his opinion for the chances of
passing it over ethe veto. One of the
leading democrats of the House who
voted for the bill says there is not
the slightest hope of its passage
ana tHdU, III MS opinion.
it will be called up merely for the purpose
of mailing some of its advocates to make
speeches at its obsequies. Mr.. Bland
says as soon as the seigniorage bill is out
of the way, he will ask the committee on
coignage, weights and measures, to report
bill for the free coinage of silver, and
that he will urge it upon the attention of
the House at the earliest opportunity,
and at every opportunity until il is con
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