The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-04
CONGRESS RE-ASSEMBLES
Members Are Refreshed by Their
Holiday Vacation.
PROGRAMME FOX THE WEEK
Nicaragua Canal Bill Liable to De
showed Under-Pop.G Gun Bills Bob Up
Sercncly--Silver Men Arc Laying
For the Baltimore Plan.
BY the United Press.

Washington, Jan. 3.-Congress re-as-
sembled this morning after the holiday
recess, and it is presumed the sessions
will now continue right along until
the 4th day of March, at noon. If the
programme Is to be carried out much
legislation will have to be crowded
to the fifty-one working days that still
remain before the dissolution of the
Fifty-third congress. Nothing of i'm
portance will be done this week. The
chances are favorable for an adjourn
ment of the senate on Friday until
Monday. If the present policy of the
Republicans Is continued, the vote on
the Nicaragua canal bill will not be
had in the senate for many days. This
bill is being utilized as buffer to ward
off other measures that would speedily
come to the front If the pending meas
ure We're out of the way.
There are other measures, however,
which the Dmocratic caucus did not
indorse that are clamoring for atten-
tion, and some of these may be pushed
into q prominent place. or these, 1t
locks as if only the pooling bill could
secure favorable action in the senate.
The Republicans have not been idle
during the holiday recess. They nave
been perfecting their plans for the en-
forcement of their programme or allow
ing nothing to be done by this congress
but the passage of the appropriation
bills.
1t will be remembered that during the
consideration of the tariff bill i'm the
last session, the Republicans in their
speeches did not discuss the income tax
on it's merits; it was referred TO only in
the most casual way. 1t was their in
tenton, when the urgent deficiency bill
comes before them to take up the tariff
and debate it upon it's merits, a debate
which they consider perfectly legiti-
mate, now that untrammelled by other
matters, the enforcement of law OF
this kind comes before them as an inde-
pendent proposition. Mr. Lodge will be
in charge of this fight and he has less
than fifteen speeches on his list that
will be made by Republicans alone
against the principles of the income
tax, to say nothing of the attack that
will be made by Mr.. Hill. When it
comes to voting the Republicans will
The Pop.Gun Bills.
An element of doubt, in connection
with the urgent deficiency BILL Is the
attitude of Messrs. Vest, Berry, Black
burn, and others who have been en-
deavoring to get their forces into line
to demand the consideration of the So
called "pop-gun' tariff bills. and es-
pecially that repeating the differential
duty on sugar and the discriminating
duty on refined sugars imported from
Germany.
Another possible obstruction to the
unressted consideration of routine
business is the currency bill, which Is
now under debate in the house. The
Carlisle bill has few friends in the
senate, and but little more can be said
for the Springer substitute. The Re
publicans, believing the fight is one
which the Democrats should settle
among themselves, will permit them to
do So
Mr.. Teller probably expressed the sit
uation as viewed by the silver men
when he said: We will jump onto
the Baltimore plan, or anything resem-
bling it. with both feet and trample 1t
to DEATH
AS far as regards the prospects Of
legislation in the house. there are some
indications that, unless the currency
bill is speedily disposed of, appropria-
ton bills may be thrown across its
path.