The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-08

Causes OF Delay-This Weeks Pro-
sramme in the House and Senate.
WASHINGTON; D. O., January THE
tariff bill will occupy the entire atten-
ton OF the house during the coming
week, OF, if not the bill itself, then the
row over the attempt to get it before the
house. After four days of fruitless eff
fort to secure the presence of voting
Democratic quorum, the house adopted
Just before adjournment Saturday night
the extreme expedient OF ordering the
arrest of all members absent without
leave. Deputies were sent out in all
directions last night to serve warrants
on these members. OF the forty mem
bers absent without leave, twenty-one
are Democrats and nineteen Republic
ans. AS some of them live at long dis
tances they can hardly get here to-mor-
row and a quorum is therefore doubt
full, although the Democratic leaders
express their confident hope that
l79 voting Democrats will be
in their seats when the gavel drops at
noon. From the Republican absentees
OF course no aid is expected. They
can be brought here under duress but
they cannot be made to vote. This ap-
plies to some of the Democrats as we'll
as Republicans, and if the opposition
within the ranksof the Democratic ma
iority can be organized, as some of
them desire, enough Democratic mem
bers might refrain from voting to pre-
vent the consideration of the bill in its
present shape. Privately some of the
Democrats do not hesitate to admit the
gravity of the situation. The possible
t-ity OF defeating the consideration OF the
| bill strikes terror to their hearts, and
some Of them, like Colonel Oates, Of
the parliamentary expedient utilized
by the 51st Congress OF counting a quo
rum.
| CONFIDENT CRISP.
Speaker Crisp asserts most positively
that the Democratic party will not be
forced to this resort. Ho thinks vot-
ing quorum will be certainly on
Tuesday at the farthest. If it can
not be obtained then another Demo
cratic caucus will be called. This Is an
| index of what those who arc satisfied
with the bill are aiming at. They de-
clare that as soon as they can demon.
| strate that not sufficient number of
| Democrats will vote to consider the bill,
| the leaders will be obliged to submit to
| material notifications which the dis
gruntled members propose. Some OF
| the eastern Democrats who are fighting
| the income tax proposition are willing
to 90 to almost any lengths to eliminate
| this feature of the bill.
Altogether the prospects are good for
very interesting contest in the house
during the coming week. OF course If
| the quorum is secured tomorrow or
Tuesday the special order will be passed,
modified probably to recompenae the
house for the two days lost since the
order was reported by lengthening the
| time of the debate to that extent. Once
the debate is under way, it will proceed
] to the exclusion of everything else.
THE REVENUE FEATURES.
The wavs and means committee have
the formal tasks before them, one the
final settlement of the internal revenue
branch OF the tariff bill, and the other
the authorization of bonds to meet the
pressing treasury deficit. MIR. Wilson
says the bond question will have to
! wait until the tariff is out OF the way
There is little doubt. however, that
| bond proposition will emanate from
the committee at an early day, as a
majority of the Dem ocratic mem bers of
the committee are known to be ready to
| adopt a measure on the lines suggested
| by Secretary Carlisle in his recent re-
! port. On the other hand, there is an
| energetic minority among the Demo-
cratic membership of the committee
| which does not believe in q bond issue.
These minority views are not likely
| to receive much consideration, how
/ ever, when the administration wants
bonds and majority OF the Democrats
on the committee are favorable to the
bond project.
The internal revenue features of the
| tariff bill will be passed on by the ways
/ and means committee within day or
two, as Messrs. McMillin, and Bryan
/ have about completed the draft which is
to be submitted to the full Democratic
membership of the committee, and
| then to the com mmittee. Tho essential
features of an income tax, an increased
/ 10 per cent tax on whisky and a tax on
/ playing cards, etc, are well understood
/ but there remains to be determined the
! important details OF how the income
tax shall be levied and collected.
MAY SUBSTITUTE THE MILLS BILL.
The leaders of the Democrats in the
i house who are attempting to force the
Wilson bill down the throats OF their
colleagues have counted without their
i host They thought that all the talk of
4 opposition to the w llson5 Dill came from
4 few disgruntled members here and
4 there, and that it would be made to
1 disappear like chaf before the wind
4 Iswhen the bill should be brought in the
4 house and motion made to proceed
4 with its consideration.
Z These leaders are absolutely astouna-
ed at the growing antagonism to Prof.
Wilson'S scheme OF tariff revision. Tho
4 attacks have come from every quarter
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