The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-03
Vast Work. Brief Time Lie
Before the Expiring
Congress.
NEW INCOME TAX FIGHT
The Currency and Appropriation
Bills May Clash Pools and
Pop-Guns.

sions will now continue right along
until the fourth day of March at noon.
If the programme is to be carried out
much legislation will have to be crowded
into the fifty-one working days that
still remain before the dissolution of the
s 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 Mon
day. Early in the session the Demo-
Gratis held a caucus and decided to take
action upon legislative subjects. involving
the admission of the Territories of New
Mexico and Arizona, the establishment
of a voluntary bankruptcy act, the pas
sage of resolution providing for an
amendment to the Constitution looking
to the election of United States Senators
by the people, the revision OF the Cur
rency system, and the Nicaraguan Canal
bill. OF these, only the. last named has
been considered and II still maintains
the place of unfinished business. The
bill may pass one House, but its warm
est friends do not look for its enact
ment into lay by the Affirmative action
of both Houses OF Congress at this
session.
If the present policy of the Republicans
is continued, the vote On the Canal bill
will not be had in the Senate for many
days. This bill is being utilized as a
buffer to ward off the measures that
would speedily come to the front if the
pending measure were out of the way.
THE POOLING BILL.
There are other measures, however,
which the caucus did not endorse that
are clsmoring for attention and some of
these may be pushed inlo q prominent
y ba
Pooling bill could secure favorable ac-
ton in fhe Senate. There has been some
private discussion OF this subject in the
Senate, but the committee to which the
bill was referred has not yet held a
meeting. This is PROBABLY due to the
fact that two or three Of the prominent
members are just now engaged in max
ing their calling and election sure
as possible for the next term of six
yeafs.s Until they return no report will
be made to the Senate. The Reilly bill
to refund the debt of the Pacific Rail-
roads. it is thought. win hardly secure
final action in the Senate, Trough the
!. = u n he House is said to meet with
@cofss defAAlale approval there and it's
friends say It VIII pass. Il is said that
Speaker Crisp and Mr.. Catehings have
agreed that rule shall be brought in
giving two days for the debate on this
bill with a provision for taking OF a vote
upon it.
REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTION.
The Republicans have not been idle
during the holiday recess. They have
been perfecting their plans for the en-
forcement of their programme of moth
to be done by this Congress but the
i vsage OF the Appropriation bills. These
VIII not be put through, however, in a
psrfunctory manner. There is promise
of some pretty lively debate On the Ur-
gent Deficiency bill which carries the
appropriation for the collection of the
income tax. A number of carefully pre-
pared speeches will be made by the Re
publicans when Mr.. Cockrell reports this
bill to the Senate
INCOME TAX FIGHT.
1t win be remembered that during the
consideration of the Tariff bill in the
last session the Republicans, in their
speeches, did not discuss the income tax
on its merits; it was referred to only in
the most casual way. 1t is their inten-
ton, when the Urgent Deficiency bill
comes before them to take up this SUBJ
ject de novo and debate it upon its
merits, a debate which they consider
perfectly legitimate, now. that, untram-
EaeIled by other matters the enforce
ment of law of this kind comes before
them as an Independent proposition. Mr.
Lodge will be in charge of this fight,
and it is said that he has not 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 support the ap-
preparation.
THE POP GUN BILLS.
Another element of doubt in connec-
ton with the Urgent Deficiency bill is
the attitude of Messrs. Vest, Berry,
Blackburn and others who have been en-
deavoring to get their forces into line
to demand the consideration OF so-called
pop gum tariff bills and especially that
repeating the differental duty on sugar,
and the discriminating duty on refined
sugars imported from Germany. This
may be attamptedi by n rser taeked on
for securing the desired end will be op-
posed by leading Democrats and among
them Mr.. Cockrell himself. who recog-
nIzes that such a motion will reopen the
entire tariff subject and endanger the
passage not only of the Deficiency. bill,
While the appropriation bills are usual
sly hurried through the Senate without
delay, the condition of these blllS Just
now, is not particularly promising The
Military Academy and the Pension bills
are the only bills that have been reported
Neither of these, however. will be pro,
ductive of protracted debate. The Forti
fications and the Army bills have net
yet been considered in committee.
CURRENCY PROBLEM.
Another possible obstruction to the
unrestricted consideration Of routine
business Is the Currency bill which IS
now under debate In the House. The
Carlisle bill has few friends in the SEN
!, and but little more gan be said for
the Springer substitute. So far the Sem
ate Finance Committee has refrained
from discussing this problem, the idea
Of the members appearing to be that 1t
IS better to defer tie evil day as long as
rossible Mr.. Voorhees, is said to be at
work upon a bill that he VIII offar n
committee as a substitute should the
Eouse bill pass and be referred to his
committee. IL is said that this bill viii
10 more for silver than either of the
propositions the House is now consider
f,lg. and Mr.. VoorEees believes that the
silver men on the committee VIII stand
by him in what he considers to be the
initial step in the battle royal OF the
future for the rehabilitation OF silver
as money metal The Repupncans
brlfeyine The fight is ore which N.
De,1,ecrs,ss should settle am.sns them
is,lees', selves viii permit them to do 50. Mr..
Teller probably expressed the situation
as viewed by the silver men nv wnen &. 1tss ne