The Press., 1897-03-25
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washington, Mar. Rand issT.

The senators do not propose to wait un- til the house passes the new tarin bill, upon which the debate was opened today to last until the 81st inst, when 1t will be voted upon and passed. The senate committee on finance has decided to take the bill up at once and to "perfect" it. That may mean an almost entirely new bill by the time the senators get through their perfecting process. The finance committee has two vacancies, caused by the retirement of Sherman and Voorhees,, which are not likely to be filled at the present. session. Assuming that Senator Jones, of Nevada, will vote with them, he has said that he would-the com mittee win be controlled by protection ists, and therefore friendly to the under lying principles of the Dingley tariff bill. This Isn't a bit pleasing to the gentlemen who have been working for months to prepare the Dingley bill, but they can hardly be surprised. The constitution gives the house the exclusive right to or iginate bills dealing with the revenue, but the senate has used It's right to amend to such an extent, of late years, that the Mckinley and the present tariff law were both practically senate-made.
 Those who thought that the failure of four of the regular appropriation bills at the last session would make 1t necessary for Speaker Reed to at least apI oint the committees In the present house to handle those bills, must feel little bit dazed. Speaker Reed has shown them that he knows a lightning legislative trick or two. He has rushed all of those bills through the house just as they stood when passed by the last congress, and that with out the aid of a single committee, except that on rules, of which he Is the chair man. It Is daily becoming more evident that so far as the house Is concerned, there Is no general legislation upon Speak or Reeds programme for the extra session. the extra session.
 There arc two kinds of tariff democrats as well as of mouey democrats, and it Is by no means certain that the minority of the house will act as a unit in opposing the republican tariff bill. So far as the bill itself Is concerned, it makes no diff ference whether the democrats vote to- gether against 1t or split up for and against parts of 1t, but 1t may have a very im- portant bearing upon the future of the democratic party and incidentally of the populists. Although denied by men of prominence, 1t is none the less true that MT. Bryan Is being made to figure In the squabble among the democrats in the house to a certain extent. That Repre- sentative Bailey, of Texas, the new lead or of the democrats, Is not partial to Mir. Bryan, Is well-known.
 President Mckinley after Investigating the connection of Land Commissioner Lamoreux with the Chicago lake front case, concluded that there had been nothing illegal or improper done by him and directed Secretary Bliss to accept his resignation, which was rendered before the new administration came in. Mir. LamoTeux is now sick at his home in Wisconsin, but his friends say that as soon as he gets we'll enough, he is scoming to Washington to make things lively fol those who mixed him up with this land claim scandal. It was In connection with this case that the new administration met the first cabinet resignation rumor in its career. Secretary Bliss was the mar made to resign by rumor, because of his resentment at the order Issued by tht president. So far as known in Washing ton, this rumor had no better foundation Chan that Secretary Bliss went over tc New York to attend to some private bust
 nese. He had been doing this every Saturday since he entered office and re
 maIning with his family, who have not
 yet moved to Washington, until Monday
 morning but this time he went ovel
 Friday and the rumor-msker at onc' jumped to the conclusion that he had re
 signed on account of the Lamoreux case