The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-22
LAST DAYS ON THE TARIFF
The House TO Wind Up the Debate
With This Week.


on-Seventy-seven Amend
ments on the Desk of the Chairman
When the House Adjourned Satur-
day.The Federal Elections Laws to
Engross the Attention of the Senate.
Washington, Jan. 21.-The same topics
which were before congress last week
will continue to engage attention during
all of this week-in the House the tariff
bill and in the Senate the bill to repeal
the federal elections laws
There is one person, at least, who halls
with delight the approach of the end of
the tariff debate in the House, who en-
ters upon this weeks work with renewed
zest for the reason that it is the last to
be devoted to the pending measure That
person is Representative w. L. Wilson,
chairman of the committee on ways and
means, and who therefore. is responsible
for the progress of the bill in the House.
His has been most prodigous labor.
TERRIBLE STRAIN.
Not only has the burden of the parlia-
mentary struggle on the floor been borne
by him in the largest measure, but the
demands made by anxious representa-
tives of various interests for changes in
his time and attention in and out of the
committee room, both before and since
the measure was reported to the House,
so that by neither day nor night has
he had an hour for months that he could
call his own. The drafts upon his
mental and physical powers have
been such that many a man of more
rugged physique would have succumbed
to the strain Thus far. however, Mr.. Will
hna h a
save in a few instances last week, when
he was unable to meet his associates at
their night sessions being completely ex-
hausted. One night he suffered from a
slight hemorrhage, but its i'll effects were
speedily overcome.
At the conclusion of the debate, and
when the bill has passed the House, Mr..
Wilson will doubtless seek needed rest
and recreation for season.
HOW THE BILL STANDS
When the debate closed in the House
Saturday night there remained on the
desk of Chairman Richardson seventy
seven amendments, which the authors
desire to offer for the action of the House.
The progress of the bill in committee last
week demonstrated that it will be praC-
tically impossible for all or many of these
to reach position whence they can re-
ceive attention, unless some mobilization
of the present method of consideration is
made. There will probably be some change
by which either the time allotted for
the discussion of each amendment will be
limited, or by which the ways and means
committee will be placed in control, and
no amendment proposed, except such as
meets the approval of the committee; in
other words, become committee amend
mends.
Under orders adopted by the House last
week, the sugar item is to be discussed
Monday, and coal on Tuesday. Three
hours have been allotted to each.
Various amendments will be pro
posed to the present text of the
bill. The Louisiana members
will seek to retain the bounty
on sugar, failing to increase the duty;
while Mr.. Harter will propose to make
the duty on all grades Of sugar l cent a
pound and abolish the bounty "There
is no reason why discrimination should
be made in favor of refined sugars" Mr..
Harter said. 1--WE beat the world at re-
fning and the refiners need no prOtec-
ton. Should my proposition become a
law, the revenues of the government
would be increased, and at once, by at
least S45, 900, 900 year, S35, ,000,0 900 from
customs duties and $l0,000,000 from the
saving in bounty"
THE DUTY ON CoAs.
Various efforts will be made to restore
coal to the dutiable list, the amount of
duty ranging from % TO 60 cents bushel
An organized movement 10 effect this
change has been made, and representa-
tives OF the transportation and mining
interests have been hard at work in
Washington to secure votes. Much effort
has been spent by the republican repre-
sentatives in the House in its behalf, but
so far as can be learned without success.
leading member of the minority
in the House, said, speaking Of
the necessary labor. 1--WE do not consider
1t good politics to join in a movement hav-
ing for its object the relief of the demo-
Gratis from their leaders-not even
when the chief beneficiary is to
be the chairman of the committee on ways
and means himself. The other five men,
bers from West Virginia are asking US to
help them pull him out of the hole into
which he has fallen, but inasmuch as
their sympathy for American interests
affected by the, bill expends itself wholly
on the coal miner and owner we think
they can take their medicine with the
rest of US"
There is every indication that when
the bill comes 10 a vote on the 10Th inst,
it will receive the support of every demo-
cratic and populist member, with posi-
bly,, at the outside, half dozen excep-
tlonS.
In the Senate, there will be slight re-
Taxation of the programme in order TO
permit the delivery of speech on the
subject Of our Hawaiian relations, by
Senator Cullom, Of Illinois. He
is expected TO talk Monday
or Tuesday The discussion of this
subject may take an interesting turn.
and trench even more upon the time set
apart for the consideration of the election
law repeal bill If some Of the republican
senator's realize their expectations that
the Turpie resolution, declaring against
foreign Intervention in Hawaii, or con-
current resolution recognizing by legis-
lative act the provisional government Of
Hawaii will be pressed TO the front.
Except by unanimous consent, however,
the discussion of Hawaiian affairs must
be confined 20 the morning hour of talk,
and the regular topic for debate will be
the election bill. Speeches on this bill
will be made by Senators Higgins, OF
Delaware, Hawley, Of Connecticut,
Lodge, of Massachusetts and Frye, Of
Maine, Senators Hoar and Chandler
stands ready to participate in the de-