The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-24
TO BE PUSHED.
The Tariff Bill to Be Pressed For
 ward Rapidly.
A SHARP DEBATE LIKELY ON SUGAR.
The State Bank Issue Likely to Be Fought to Finish in the House-Bland's Free Coinage Bill May Be Reported
 from the Committee.

WASHINGTON, May 21.-The senate will begin the seventh week of the dis cussion of the tariff bill to-day by talk ing up the metal schedule, and the | prospect is now the entire week will be devoted to the tariff without attempt | ing any business other than that which | can be done in the first half hour of the daily sessions, and possibly an oc- casional brief executive session after o'clock for the disposition of uncon- | tested nominations.
 Senator Harris yesterday reaffirmed
 his intention of pressing the bill for
 ward as rapidly as it may be possible | to do so, but he said he had no idea of an attempt to extend the daily sessions beyond 6 o'clock as long as the work should go on satisfactorily, as at pres ent. He expressed the opinion the re- publican senators who have been op-
 posing the bill, and apparently seeking
 to delay its passage, had decided to
 change their policy, and to let the bill
 proceed upon it's passage after giving | the various items of difference the at | tention demanded by their merits, and
 instanced the fact noticeable on Fri
 day and Saturday, that there had been
 decided cessation of long speeches, and of roll calls as well.
 Senator Aldrich expresses the opinion | the week will be spent on the metal
 and wooden schedules and he says the
 discussion will go on much as it has during the past week-thGt the repub- 1 licans will allow some of the items of the bill to go unchanged, and they will
 ask explanations and give their opin- | ions of the changes made in others. 1 He says many paragraphs of the metal
 schedules are acceptable to the repub- 1 licans, and that, taking the times and 1 conditions which now prevail into con | sideration, the rates in some instances | are even more liberal than those of the , Mckinley law.
 He said, however, there was dissatis- faction with the miscellaneous items of the schedule, and that these will cause considerable debate. He also says the lumber question will be discussed when the wood schedule is reached. Senator
 Aldrich thinks it improbable the sugar schedule will be reached during the week, while Senator Harris considers
 it possible it may be. They agree that this schedule, when reached, will de- velop sharp debate.
 Senator Hill, who has been absent since the consideration of the schedule
 was begun, is expected to be in his seat | to-day.
 The state bank issue, which has been l gathering strength at caucuses and conferences ever since congress assem- | bled, promises to be fought to a finish
 in the house during the coming week.
 It will bring out a sharp contest on
 party as we'll as economic lines, as the state bank plank of the democratic na-
 tional platform has advanced the ques-
 tion to a place of importance second
 only to the tariff and silver.
 | The advocates of state banks have
 been restive for weeks to test their strength. They failed to get bill re-
 ported from the banking committee.
 Thereupon a caucus was called, and a resolution passed that the issue should
 be made before the house on an amend ment to the Brawley bill. This long, deferred bill, with the state bank amendment. is now to be brought to q
 vote. The bill is not important in it. self, and its main use is in serving as a
 bank bill to which state bank amend ment is germanc.
 | Chairman Springer, of the banking
 committee, and Representatives Cox, | Culberson, Swanson and other state
 bank advocates, expect to begin the
 contest Tuesday or Wednesday on a | question of consideration. The anti state bank men are expected to insist
 that the Indian appropriation bill has | equal privilege, in which case test vote will decide the strength of the
 state bank men. They are confident of | winning on the vote of consideration,
 and Mir. Springer is prepared to open
 the debate. The maiA issue, however, will be on conditional or unconditional
 repeal of the tax. Mir. Swanson says
 unconditional repeal can certainly ! muster 40 votes and conditional re- peal 155.
 Aside from the banking bill, Repre-
 sentative Hatch, of Missouri, is hopeful
 of taking up the anti-option bill during
 the week. Monday is the regular sus-
 pension day, but it is expected the
 legislative bill will hold its place and
 be passed. The Indian appropriation
 bill is next on the calendar.
 The most important committee work
 of the week will be the reporting from
 the rules committee of a recommenda-
 tion that the naval committee investi- gate armor plate frauds. The report
 is expected to-day. On Tuesday the
 judiciary committee will consider Judge Jenkins and his strike injunc- tion. On Thursday MT. Bland will again try to get his free coinage bill ported from the coinage committee.