Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-19
TARIFF BILL DELAYED
1t Will Be Another Week Before
the Committee Finish 1t.
CLEARING UP WEBKIN THE SENATE
Mr. Bland Now Conf lent of n Quorum In
the House and smooth Sailing For His
Seisniorage BiII-A Picture of Mrs. Har-
rison to BE Hung In the White House.

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the House and smooth Sailing For His
SeiSnioraGe BilI-A Picture of Mrs. Har
rison to BE Hung In the White House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The fight over
the silver seigniorage bill will be resumed
in the house today, and Mr.. Bland is conf
dent that there will be quorum on hand
to order the previous question either today
or Tuesday. Once the necessary quorum
is obtained-and that is only a question of
time, as the opponents of the measure
have practically abandoned hope of defeat
ing the bill-it will be brought to a vote,
if need be, by special order from the COM
mittee on rules, the speaker having prom
ised a special rule if the emergency de-
mands it.
On Wednesday the Joy-O'Neill contested
election case will come up, and after it is
disposed of the Cobb-Whatley case and the
English-Hilborn case may follow. If not,
the remainder of the week will probably
be devoted to appropriation bills, the forth
1ications bill being the first
Senators Daniel, Gallery and White of
California have given notice of speeches on
the Hawaiian resolution for this week, and
it is probable that other senators will speak
upon the subject before next Saturday.
There will be an effort to have the resOlu-
ton disposed of during the week, as there
will also be to get Senator Stewards bond
resolution off the calendar. There will
probably be some speeches on this question
also.
Indeed the senate will make the week,
as far as possible, a cleaning up week, so
as to make way for the tariff debate, which
will necessarily prevent the consideration
of less important subjects when it shall
ha bn ia1 hn
week include the consideration of the
printing site, Russian thistle and McGar-
rahan bills.
Tariff Bill Delayed.
The Democratic members of the senate
committee on finance have decided that
they will not be able to report the tariff
bill to the full committee tomorrow, as
they had announced they would be- and
one of the members of the subcommittee
which has had the bill under consideration
said that he would not attempt to say
when the bill could be reported,
Il shall be very we'll saES+fied," he said,
''if the dill is in shape to be reported by
the beginning of next week" The com
mittee had been very hopeful just before
the adjournment Friday night of being
able to fulfill Chairman Voorhees, promise
TO get the bill in readiness for the full COM
mittee this week, but after putting in a
long days work at the close of a week
given up almost exclusively to the bill the
members found it still in chaotic condi-
ton, and they were compelled to admit to
themselves, as they did later to outside in
quirers, that the task they had set them
selves had been impossible of accomplish
meut.
The reason for the postponement is dis
covered in the fact that the work of salts
flying Democratic senators has been found
a very difficult one, as is also the cOnstruc-
ton of bill that is sure to be accepted by
the senate-an undertaking requiring
many changes of purpose and alterations
of the figures at first made.
When the subcommittee began their
work, they had before them the draft of a
bill upon which it was believed it would
be an easy matter to secure agreement, but
this bill has been changed in some respects
several times and has become 80 worn from
handling and erasures that it has become
necessary to destroy the original copy and
replace it with new one. There is still
much demand for concessions on the part
of senators on minor items, and May of
the most important features of the bill are
entirely Enacted upon. Sugar is included
in this list and it looks as if its fate would
be about the last question to be determined
by the subcommittee.