The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-06
THE TARIFF BILL.
1t is Thought There viii Be No At
tempt to Oppose the Motion

To Disagree to the Senate Amendments
| and Send the Bill to Conference.-The
| Number of House Conferees TO Be
Appointed rot Yet Decided.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-When the
tariff bill reaches the house, after it
has passed the senate, it is not prob
able that there will be any attempt to
oppose the motion which will be made
either directly by Chairman Dingley
or bv the opposition of special order
to disagree to the senate amendments
and send the bill to conference. The
repu blican leaders do not think there is
any necessity for debate until the bill
is reported back by the con-
ference and the democrats are
inclined to the same opinion. Bailey,
the leader of the minority, said Thurs
day that he would not oppose motion
| to get the bill into conference, pro-
vide the republicans would agree to a
reasonable time for debate when the
bill was reported back to the house.
He thought three or four days for dis
cussion at that time would be suf-
ficient. The number of conferees to
be appointed on behalf of the house
has not yet been decided, nor
| the political division, but the confer
ees, as is usual, will be the ranking
mem bers of the committee from each
side. 1t is proba BILE that there will be
seven conferees. The political di-
vision may be five and two or four and
| three. The republican members of
the committee in their ranking order
are Dihgley, Payne, Dalzell, Hopkins,
Grosvenor, Russell, Bolliver, Steele,
johnson, Evans and Tanney and the
democrats Bailey, Mcmillan, Wheeler,
McLaurin, Robertson and Swanson.
The estimate of the time the bill
will be in conference ranges from two
to ten days, but the best opinion is
that the conferees will report the bill
back a week from next Monday if it
comes over from the senate on the lat
ter day.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The nthly
statement of the public debt shows
that at the close of business June 80,
the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to 1886, Csc, OS6, a decrease
for the month of $40, or, 966, which is
accounted for by corresponding in
crease in the amount of cash on hand
The debt, independent of the cash,
was reduced 81, 1872.
The debt is recapitulated as fol-
lows:
Interest bearing debt. s47, 365. 1870
Debt on which interest has ceased 1885, $50
Debt bearing no interest.-...... 37S, 0SI 702
Total. ............... 1925 793, 7I2
This amount, however. does not in
clude $500, SIS 953 in certificates and
treasury notes outstanding which are
offset by an equal amount of cash in
the treasury.
The cash in the treasury is CLASH
fed as follows:
Cold S17S orc CSC
SlVer.'...' $500. 52O,79 922
Paper ....- ..-......,..,....... l53, 3i9, SEQ
Bonds, disOursing officers bal
anceS, etc. ...... 10, 1853. 953
IotaI: ........ .....-.......... S7b3S9 318
Against the above there are demand
liabilities outstanding amounting to
1865, PSI, 1872, leaving the net cash in the
treasury, $40, 1877 ,626.
WASHINGTON, July At is under
stood that the president has selected
w. w. lRockhill, late assistant secre-
tary of state, for the post of United
States minister to Greece and that his
nomination is likely to 60 to the SEN
ate Saturday. Mr.. Reckhilps appoint
ment will not be a party one in any
sense, but will be based entirely upon
his experience as a diplomat and his
excellent work while in the depart
ment OF state. He entered the diplo-
matte service as far back as 1884.
WASHINGTON, July 2. For more than
month all pension certificates issued
by the government have been held up
in the pension bureau. The suspen-
sion ended Thursday when an i'm
mense batch of certificates was mailed
to the different agencies This termi-
mates the operations of an order which,
taking effect May 81 last, was designed
to avoid increasing the exist
ing deficiency in the pension
appropriations by crediting the paw
ments which would follow the issuance
of these certificates to the new fiscal
year instead OF to the fiscal year ended
Wednesday. The deficiency is said to
be over $500, OO0 Between IL, 600 and
10, 600 of these certificates have accum-
ulated since the order took effect and
Thursday all those dated up to June
"a were mailed. The suspension in,
Guided every class of pension certifi-
Gates, but from now on the regular
daily issuance and mailing of them
will be resumed
The house Thursday adjourned until
Monday, after an extended attack by
Mr.. Settle dem, KY on the power of
the house to adjourn for three DAYS at
time Mr.. Settle made his speech by
moving an amendment to the journal.
tie arraigned the repu blicans for not
acting on the bankruptcy and Cuban
questions.
The senate has placed on the free
list cotton bagging, burlap, grain
sacks made of burlap and other bags
made Of jute or hemp-yeas 30, nays
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