The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-05
THE PLANS OF CONGRESS.
Nothing Very Exciting in the
Programme for This Week. /.
SUGAR 4 Disturbing ELEMENT.
Senators Fail TO Agree Upon the New
Tarifr Bnl-More Speeches to he
Made on tho Hawaiian Question
Gossip.


BY The Associated Pres.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-Thers will b
lull in the house for several weeks after
the excitement that has existed there
since the holidays.
IL Is the intention of the house man
ayers to push the consideration of the APP
preparation bills to the exclusion OF every
thing else during the coming week. Two
days. probably three, will be taken TO
complete the consideration OF the pension
appropriation bill. After It Is disposed
Of the district of Columbia and consular
and diplomatic bills will consume the
balance of the week. When these are
completed, the election cases will be taken
up and then the house will return to the
other appropriation bills.
The senate has made so little progress
toward legislation during the past two or
three weeks that the calendar has
changed only In a small degree, and the
special orders, made some time. except in
the case of a few speeches, are still un-
disposed Of
The printing bill, the Russian thistle
bill and the MoGarrahan bill all hold
their places where they can be called up
IN order, but they are subject to displace-
ment II any question Of more general i'm
portance should be presented. even though
informally.
IL the tariff bill should not be reported
during the week, it is still likely to be re-
ferred to and speeches made upon 1t. II
n the subject which Is uppermost in the
minds OF all senator's, and is liable to ap-
pear Unexpectedly in some Shape
There will also be more speeches on the
Hawaiian question. Senator Caffery has
not yet made his speech on the subject, Of
which he gave notice some time since,
and there are also other senators who
probably will wish to be heard IL oppor-
tunity offers.
For the rest, and II no other general
subject should present itself, the senate
may be expected to take up the calendar
and dispose of as many Of the minor bills
rs possible.
Finance Committee Delayed.
The Democratic mbers of the senate
committee Of finance find it necessary to
take at least one more day to consider the
tariff bill before presenting 1t to the full
committee.
They had been very anxious to complete
the bill Saturday, 80 as TO be able to lay
II before the full committee today, and
they did not relax in this purpose until
the last moment before completing their
work when they found it necessary to
give so much time to the senators who
wanted to be heard onlthe various sched-
ules, but they had comparatively little
time for consultation.
Consequently they were unable to send
the bill to the printers, but they promise
20 complete the bill in time to have
It printed Tor presentation tomorrow.
The committee have progressed 20 far,
and have heard the dissatisfied. sena-
tors so fully that they feel confident now
of being able to carry out this program,
although there In considerable detail
work still to be done.
While some Of the schedules of the bill
have been agreed to for the time being by
the committee. the work is not considered
finally concluded upon any Of them, and
important changes are liable to be made
up to the last moment before the meeting
of the full committee. For this reason
members Of the committee decline abso-
lutely to give out any of the rates fixed.
They also refuse 30 confirm any figures
published, and while they do not say that
the rate Of 40 cents ton on iron ore and
coal are erroneous, they assert that what
ever figures they may have agreed to,
even on these articles, are still subject
to change, and that as 1t is with these
articles SO it Is with the entire list.
Worried About Sugar.
The contest between the mem bers of
Che committee and the discontented ele-
ment has been very sharp. Senators
Hill, German, Brice, White, Caffery
and Smith, and possibly two or three
other senator's, constitute very compact
organization, and they constitute an in
huence which the committee is finding it
difficult TO resist.
These senator's have been In constant
consultation. Still members of the
committee do not believe that the op-
position of the senators will 90 to the ex-
tent of opposing the bill by their votes.
Sugar is STILL as it has been from the
start, the most disturbing element with
which the committee has been called
upon to deal, and there is far greater
trouble in fixing rate satisfactory to the
refiners than to the planters.
The Republican members of the COM
mittee have not changed their purpose of
asking for an explanation in committee
of the changes made, and they will insist
upon explicit aud comprehensive state
ments. Senator Morrill, has reiterated
his purpose to this end within the past
day or two, and other Republicans mem-
bers of the senate finance committee will
sustain him In his position.
If the Democratic members comply, as
IL Is supposed they will In a measure, IL is
probable that some time will be con-
sumed, 80 that even though the bill be
presented to the full committee tomor-
row 1t cannot be definitely stated Just
when Il will be reported to the senate.
The Democratic members are pledged,
however, TO get it in - the earliest prac-
Gcable moment.