The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-24
Congress Win Not Adjourn Till
August, Maybe Later.
1t Has Sat So Long a Few Weeks
More Won't Hurt
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
Their Encampment Will Help
to Enliven Washington.

adjournment, and this talk comes from so
many of the old heads on both sides that
it may be taken as q sort Of semioficial
announcement. AS TO the question about
those who were SO anxious to get home
and see about their districts, q western
member lauFhingly replied: We'll, it's
just like it was with my wife when we
first went to housekeeping. If was de-
layed half an hour after the regular meal
time, why I knew that the dinner was
spoiled and that my vito was as mad as
she was going to be anyhow, and SO it
didn't make any difference how much
longer staid away When the 1st Of
July passed, with no tariff bill and Ger
tainty that su gar was to be heavily taxed,
my constituents were as full of mad as
they could be and not bust and SO it
makes no difference now how long 1 stay
here.
a Lively Month.
August viii indeed be a very lively
month July 20 tho troops of this district,
including the Columbia national guard,
viii go into camp ON the Tat near Mar
shall Hall and remain till Aug. 6, and if
the appropriation therefor gets through
in time there viii be q general brigade
encaImprnent- After this will come q great
variety Of public functions of an interest
ing charactar and then the grand encamp-
ment Of tho knights OF Pythias. which, if
one may edge from the preparations
made and tho letters received, will be by
far the grandest thing of the kind ever
held ia the United States It is a fact of
some interest that very many Pythian
commands in Indiana, Illinois and farther
west have sent special notices that their
members arc also very largely members of
the militia and that il tho labor troubles
arc serious late in August their acceptance
Of the Washington call must be considered
as Withdrawn
that the session is to round out the year
since this congress first met, there is quite
a revival in old business that had been laid
aside and renewed activity in some Of the
committee rooms. Messrs. Geary, Mcguire,
Mallory and others specially interested in
it once more hope to get the Nicaragua
canal bill to the front, and the committee
ON Pacific railroads swear by all that Is
good and great that they will do some
thing yet this session IL the house does not
positively forbid it, In the general rush
OF routine business and concentration OF
interest on the tariff conference the various
Investigations We're quite overlooked and
except for Senator Allen, it is possible
that the inquiry into the sugar bribery
charges would be ignored
Those Arrnor Plates.
The house naval committee suspended
its investigation for q week because of the
naval appropriation bill coming back from
te senate with important amendments, but
it is now resumed, and Chairman Cum
mings talks as if they had hardly got fair
" into it. There have been sudden and
curious changes and the case has SO far
shown three very distinct phases. First
all the testimony seemed to bear very hard
ON the Carnegie company, US it was adj
Initted that all kinds OF tricks had been
practiced on the government inspectors,
and some very sensational results were
promised "A new set OF witnesses turned
the tide strongly against the inspectors.
It was admitted that they had been inn
posed upon in various ways, but claimed
that it done merely to save trouble,
which their Ignorant oficiousness would
have caused, and that the plates were ey-
cry whit as good rs was agreed upon, and
most Of them better The real eDpeal, said
tho company. was to the ballistic test, and
that brought on tho third stage. 1t was
shown that the plates had the tensile
strength and other qualities contracted
for, and yet projectiles were fired right
through them. The consolation now is
that, while VIC probably got as good plates
as we contracted for, vet we did so much
better in tho pro5ectilo limo that we shall
now have to invent tougher plates.
The Conference Fight.
Old senators say that they do not re-
member any conference which resulted so
nearly as the public expected and the
Journalistic predicted. Everybody said that
the fight would be on coal, iron and sugar.
especially sugar, and SO it seems to be
coming out. Senator Kyle, who is proba-
bly, as impartial an observer as a senator
could be at such time, and who has been
kept wel informed Of every days proceed |
1ngs, says :. am satisfied that an agree
Inent could be reached in an hour if the
senate conferces-that is, the Democrats
were sure that their party in the senate
would sustain them, and very certain /
that on final vote there is only one Dem l
ocrat in the senate who would take ne /
responsibility of voting against a party |
measure Of that Importance That is not l
what the Democratic conferecs are afraid /
Of They know that they can pass the bill |
hnally-they must pass it, in fact-but If I
q partial agreement j. reported and then /
disagreement on tho six important items I
q long struggle may follow and keep US /
here till October"
Comparison Tables.
The Carlisle tables, as they are called, |
have excited unusual interest and arc
studied with far more zeal than public |
documents generally are and it seems as
If they have reconeiled many Democrats
Of the house to the senate bill, whether 1
that was their object or not. They present
the rates OF duty under the law Of 1883, |
the Mills bill, the Mckinley act, the Viii /
son bill as it left the house and the senate Il
bill In parallel columns, with specific duties /
reduced to ad valorem per cents, and thus /
show 81 q glance what the reduction will 4
be If the senate bill is accepted Occa-
sionalIy there is an increase. Thus the Il
Mckinley rate ON alcoholic compounds is L
1873 per cent, while in the senate bill it is I
7s8 per cent, and 50 Of several articles of /
that nature IN the first schedule-chenl-
icals, oils and paints-and vet there is q
great average reduction. In the schedule /
Of earthenware and glassware the reduc-