Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-23
The WEEKS PROGRAM NE
For congress-Appropriaiiens in the House
and Tariff in the Senate.

| WASHINGTON, April a2.-The appropria-
ton Hills will be the general order OF ousi-
ness in the House this week. When the
House adjourned on Saturday, two of these
measures wera yet unfinished On the caien-
car, hsyiog been partly considered for sew
eral days, the postoffice bill and the diplo-
matte and consular bill. No arrangements
have yet been made for brir ging IN rule to
close debate upon either of the peniing
measures. Speaker Crisp, chairman OF the
committee ol rules, says it will be reported
if i. shall be discovered in the opinion OF
the committee that debate is being unduly
protracted.
Next on the calendar, after the two bills
named, are the military, river and harbor,
and naval appropriation bills, in the order
named. 1t is the expectation that at least
one of these, with the diplomatic and con-
sular, and postotfice bills, will have re-
ceived final consideration by the end OF the
week.
Tomorrow ushers in the fourth week OF
debate in the Senate on the tariff bill. The
arrangement under which the bill is beng
considered in general debate from until .
in the afternoon, is to end with the speech
of Mills, on Tuesday uext, although on
the day following the bill will be
technically up for consideration by
paragraphs, and the field of debate thus
actually will be broadened and the oppor-
iunitv for consumption of time be enhanced.
The imp ssibility of foreseeing just where
thi, discussion will lead, is causing the
managers of the bill much worry.
| TIE attitude of the Republicans during
the past week made conspicuous the fact
that the minority c0nsi lors any means JUS
tifable to pevent final action on the tariff
measure. Mr.. Quay started in with
speech, made up largely of census statis-
tics devoted to the iron and allied indus
t;iss of his state and when Saturday night
came Mc. Quay had not fioished telling how
unjust the bll would be to the industries of
Pennsylvania, nor had he ceased to quote
from an apparently inexhausiible supply of
| figures.
Mr.. Quay readily yielded to any senator
who wanted TO make speech, and permit
ted anyone to insert in the body of his
speech such remarks as the interrupting
member saw fit to make. Meanwhile Mr..
| Quay yielded TO Mr.. DoIph, and that sena-
tor started in with speech which in its in
complete share would fill many columns of
the Record, but nevertheless is said 10 be
Only Just hegln. Mr.. Dolph himself as
sured the Senate yesterday that he would
submit the remainder of his remass in So
cial form whenever the Senate would hear
them. He yielded to interruptions and per-
mitted others to make speeches in his time.
| The present tariff situation in the Senate
calls to mind many long, speeches made
during the silver fight,
| That the Democrats appreciate what is
| brewing is manifest from the amendment
offered TO the rules By Mr.. Gray, Friday,
which provides that mo senator shall read
speech, nor read from any book or paper
except to quote authority or illustrate
point or the argument he is making without
unanimous consent"
| This is aimed at NJ. Quay's census fig
ures and numerous Citations found in MIR.
| Dolph's speech from the messages of Presi-
| dent Harrison and at such future quota
| tons, in extenso, as the Republican sena-
| tors are believed to have in store. Tn
Republicans are not fearful of Mr.. Gray's
proposed amendment. Ii has gone t. the
committee on rules, where it viii probably
| slumber until the next recess. of Cong' ess.
The week will opon with a speech by Mr..
| Washourn who will devote himself mainly
TO the consideration Of the reciprocal rela-
| tons of this country growing cut of the
Mckinley act, and the evil effects he thinks
will follow the abandonment of that policy.
Mr.. WashLurn's prepared remarks are sail
to be of exceeding length and will occupy
| all of Mondsy. He will be followed Tues
day by Mr. Palmer ard later in the after
noon Mr.. Mills will present the Democratic
side of the case in closing general debate.
Another arraigpment of the administra-
tons Hawaiian policy will be heard next
Wednesday, when Mr.. Higgins of Dell-
ware will take the floor. To Mr.. Higgins
the Il publicans left the discussion OF our
relations with Hawaii 40 far rs they are af
footed by the Wilson bill. Probably Mr..
Cullom wilt during the week. mske a set
speech. Messrs. Aldrich and Allison may
also have murh t, say regarding the chemi-
cal schedule, which is fest 10 order.
Two important matters will be the sub
ject of debate before the first para
graph of the bill can be taken up.
They are the date when the law shall
take eff ct and the character of goods to
which the bill shall apply. Controversies
VI i'll be raisel or both tnese pc nts. Another
uratter which will Lad to more or less talk
on beth sides, will be the effort of Mr.. Hill
to consider the LIST.
Every vote to be token on any and all
amendments to the bill, will be by yeas aud
naya. The Republicans have Sufficient
numbers 10 dem, this, and il is their
dc clar'd intention of putting every man on
| recorl on every point.