Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-14
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
Senator Voorhees, Wants No Callers
and No Cards.
Petitioners on Tariff May Be Heard and They
May Nst Be.

WASHINGTON, July 49, Especial. l.
"We want no callers and 10 cards" 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. Tho Democrats
first met in the room of Senator Voorhees,
committee 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 gcntcci looking
and suave old doorkccper waved them off
with the statement that the senator was
not there, and he really couldn' say where
he was. All this time petitions and re-
monstranccs 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
1.-THE Democrats will get together first,
and then the full committee will be called
and perhaps it will have time to hear you,
and perhaps it will not. P"
Increase Of Internal Revenue.
The statement that Speaker Crisp and
Chairman Wilson had consulted the presi-
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
siblc in the form in which it left the
house. The extraordinary increase in the
internal revenue receipts, which at one
time reached So, 900, 900 per day, Is taken
by all the treasury officials as the turning
of the tide which has run adversely SO
long TO tho public 1t 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 un
der tho new bill will probably be approved
by both houses. 1t Is estimated that the
payments on whisky taken out of bond
before the now law goes into operation will
be ample to tide over the period of delayed
payments on new whisky, and even If
most of tho 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
uiy calculations arc on the theory that
this tariff law is to remain for several
years. The managers ridicule any sug
gcstion that the bill will fail to become y
law by the 1st of August, but the Repub-
licans insist that it cannot be.
NAVY F1unkyism."
The appropriation bills in the senate
move with at least their average speed
and with no more than tic usual partisan
racket. OF course the naval bill and the
pension bill were made tho occasion for
the usual patriotic addresses and partisan
attack and rcjoindcr, but Senator Allen
varied the proceedings by sharp attack
on the 'aristocracy and ilunkyism" OF
the navy. He wanted an amendment re
curing the president in his share of the
appointments to name only actual resi-
dents of tho district to which they were
credited MCssr1. German and Hawley
rcioincd that it was the proper thing to
appoint the sons of great military and
naval commanders In this way, and thus
keep up the spirit Of the naval service,
and after rather heu cd discussion Mr.,
Aliens amendment was defeated
For some days the situation in Wash
ington was much like that in war times,
and the strangost as well rs the strongest
evidence that congressman were painfully
impressed was the fact that they rcfraincd
during those days from making any par
tisan references to the strikes. At the
White House and the war department
there were coming and going of mcssen-
gers and officials somewhat like the scenes
of 1861, and every man at army hcadquar-
tiers looked as if he felt the fate of the
country to be on his shoulders. Tho chap
lalns of both houses mentioned the trou
bles in their prayers, and, SO far as can he
learned, every preacher in the city referred
to them in his sermon, while several
preached entirely OH that subject. Since
tho excitement has mcasurably abated sew
oral statesmen have felt called on to OK
plain. Senator sherman says that his
much abused resolution for an inquiry
looking to u reduction of Pullman car
rates was really prepared before tho trou-
blos grew tlagrant and was introduced mt
time when they were thought to be
about over. 1t was only by accident that
it reached the public contemporaneously
with the worst fighting. Senator Kyle
has stiffcned up under the storm of criti-
cism more than would have seemed likely
ia ono of his gentle appearance, and Sen
ator PETER comes boldly to the front with
another ono of his comprehension bills
providing that the government shall take
charge of everything, from railroad to
telephone, and mako everybody happy,
from engineer to coal HEAVIER.