Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-17
TARIFF BILL NEXT WEEK
1t Will Probably Be Reported to
 the Senate on Tuesday.
FREE LIST HAS BEEN EXTENDED.

| MT. Enloe's Second Attack on the Coast and
 GeOdetic Survey Appropriation Was a
 Failure-More Private Pension Bills Con
 sidered- -Breckinridge-PoI Case.
 WASHINGTON. March l7.-AG. Enloe's
 second amendment. aimed at the coast and l geodetic survey and providing for the in
 vestigation of that bureau and determi- | nation of the advisability of its transfer to
 the navy and interior departments, was | defeated in the house by majority of 22 | votes.
 | No amendments at all to this paragraph | were adopted except one changing the yer | biage ill the clause requiring the secretary
 of the treasury to reduce the office force of i the bureau to bring it within Sl25, ,OOO, so
 as to prevent the paragraph from interfer- | ing with the civil service law in so far as it | applied to the coast and geodetic survey. The latter part of the afternoon was de | voted to discussion of the appropriation
 of S750,0O0 for the Missouri river commits | sion. No action was had. however, upon
 the amendments offered. The evening ses-
 sion was devoted to the consideration of | private pension bills
 Progress of the Tariff Bill. ! Senators representing both the Demo cratic and Repu blican sides. of the senate committee on finance expressed the opin ion at the close of the committee meeting
 that the bill would be reported to the sen
 ate on Tuesday next They stated, how
 ever, that no agreement to this effect had
 been entered into, but that the opinion was 1 the result of a knowledge of the progress
 that had been made upon the bill since the
 full committee has been in possession of it. The entire time of the meeting was de voted to that portion relating to the meth ods of collecting the revenues ill both the tariff and tke internal revenue parts of the bill, and it was announced at the close that this part of the work had been prac
 tically completed. Assistant Secretary of 1 the Treasury Hamlin was again with the
 committee during the afternoon for the
 purpose of making suggestions and an- i swering questions as to the operation of
 the various provisions of the bill bearing
 upon its administration by the depart ment.
 When the Republican members of the
 committee withdrew the Democratic mem
 bers went into consultation upon the sug
 gestions made by the Republican members. They had discussed with the Republicans the points made by them in full commit tee. but found it necessary to hold a party conference before announcing any decision. There are some indications that several CudIlStS "lll De Ildue III NlIn the opinions advanced and one of the Re publican members of the committee stated
 that he thought that practically all the changes suggested by them would be
 adopted, which would, he said, leave the
 administrative part of the bill very similar
 to the Mckinley law in this respect. The committee will take up the schedules
 at its meeting today, and it is presumed
 that it will devote itself to considering sug- gestions bearing upon various paragraphs
 of the bill which the members, both Dem
 Ocrats and Republicans, may think should | be changed.
 | The appearances now are that the Demo
 crats will have quite large number of
 changes which they will agree upon, and | these changes will include the transfer of
 a number of articles to the free list which were made dutiable in the senate bill be-
 fore the sugar duty had been agreed upon.
 The treasury department estimates make 1 it appear that the bill will give a larger
 revenue than will be needed by the gov
 ernment, which will afford the committee
 an opportunity to make greater number l of articles free than would have been pos
 sible if the sugar duty had not been inr- l posed.