Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-02
THE WEEK IN coNGRRxs.

Nh The Senate the Tariff Bill Will be Taken Up and Senator voorhess Win Make the Opening sPeech-The Bland Hill VIII be Called Up i'm the House.
 WAsHISeros, April 1-To-morrow about
 2 o'clock, when Mr. voorhees, chairman of
 the finance committee, calls up the tariff
 bill in the senate and makes the opening | speech, he will inaugurate debate, the end and outcome of which no man can foretell. MT. Voorhees confidently expects the final vote to be taken within six weeks, but Mr.
 Voorhees, expectations on other occasions
 have not always been realized. Some of
 his democratic colleagues are not 90 sam
 guine. and no republican is willing to fx
 c period of less than two or three months
 within which vote can De had on the pas
 sage of the senate tariff bill.
 Mr. Voorhees, speech, which contains
 not less than fifteen thousand words, will
 probably be the only speech delivered to-
 morrow. MT. AllIson prsferring to wait
 until Thursday to make the opsning re-
 marks for the republicans. Other senators
 who may speak early in the debate are
 Nessrs. Hosr, Cullom, Lodge, Psffer and
 Morrill,. In executive session on Monday
 MT. Call will insist upon the consideration of certain Florida nominations, upon which he intends opposing the sdministra- tion. Tomorrow, also. Mr. Morgan will report the Bering sea bill and will ask Ar. Voorhees to give way Wednesday and per init the bill 10 be taken up and kept be- fore the senate until passed. This will in- volvs at least one closed legislative session.
 MT. Morgan also intends to call up the Chinese treaty on Thursday and as the de- bate on this convention will doubtless oc- oupy several executive sessions the outlook for the tariff debate progressing beyond the two opening speeches during the com ing week is not encouraging.
 MT. Voorhees, Is the victim of condi- tions that were unexpected and all obsta- cles will probably be brushed aside by the end of the week.
 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 e quorum of democratic members to consider and dis pose of the b1sinese in hand. Tomorrow the O'Neil-Joy contested 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 case from the third district of California is included | within tie terms of the order and will be | taken up as soon as the O'Neil- Joy contest Il has bsen disposed of.
 MT. Bland has given notice that on Tues day hs will ask the house to take up his | bill and put 1t on Its passage, "the objections of the executive notwith. Il standing It Is hardly possible, however, that the election cases will be out of the way by that time. ss the managers do not look for quorum tomorrow. But the bill will be accorded right of way ss soon as the pending order has been executed.
 Mr. Bland says his bill may occupy the attention of the house for two days, but gives no intlmstion of his opinion of the chances for passing 1t over the veto. One of the leading democrats of the houss who voted for this bill says there Is not the slightest hope of its pssesge, and that in his opinion 1t will be called up merely for the purpose of enabling some of its sd- vccates to make speeches at Its obsequies
 Mr. Bland says as soon ss the bill Is out of the way he will sek the committee on coinage, weights and measures to report 6 bill for the free coinage of silver, and that he will urge 1t upon the attention of the house at the earliest opportunity and every opportunity until 1t Is passed.