The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-22
COOL DRINKS.
Will Be Taken While Sen
ate Works on Tariff.
Large Tanks of Beverages
That are Delightful.
Probability That Tariff Bill VIII
Pass Senate About July 5.

WASHINGTON. June 22.-[Special. Hot
weather is helping the Republicans push
the tariff bill. For some days the national
capital has been sizzling In tho senate
chamber and in the hall Of the house,
when the lower branch is in session, men
are seen with fans in their hands. Many
of the statesmen wear linen and duck and
white flannel suits. Outing shirts are in
favor, too, and one member Of the house,
Mr.. Moody of Massachusetts, has been
seen on the floor in his bicycling outfit.
Down in the basement Of the capitol tho
engineers have TO keep up steam for the
purpose of pumping cold air into the
halls of legislation overhead. Common,
everyday air is not considered good enough
for the national legislators. Their supply
is run through cooling pipes before 1t is
pumped into the tubes which discharge di-
rectly underneath the chairs in which
greatness sits.
To Cool Heated Brains.
In the senate the annual supply OF apol-
iinaris lemonade has made Its appearance.
In each cloakroom, one on tho Democratic
and the other on the Republican side, big
tanks are kept constantly filed with this
delightful beverage. In distribution of the
luxuries of the season tho senate manage
ment is nonpartisan. This lemonade bill
Is paid out of the contingent fund Of the
senate, and it amounts 10 pretty penny.
Three years ago, when congress was in
session nearly all summer on the tariff
bill Of 1894, the cost of lemonade, mineral
water and similar luxuries consumed in
the senate clcakrooms was between So, 900
and $1,000. The hot weather and the dis
comfort which it brings are fastening to a
conclusion the work of this congress, and
| II apollnaris lemonade will help To secure
early adjournment probably the taxpayer
will not grumble Mt the expense.
The understanding i'm both branches OF
congress and among the leaders Of both
parties Is that as soon as the tariff bill Is
disposed of an adjournment will be taken.
Various other legislative projects have
been talked of. Some have thought the
annexation troaty with Hawaii might be
taken up and disposed Of before adjourn
| ment. Others have proposed that the
president should send in message favor
| ing the creation of commission TO inves-
tigate the currency and banking subject
and TO report at next winters session.
| But tho leaders tell me 1t Is useless TO
| think of doing anything of tho sort. As
soon as the tariff Is law congress will
adjourn in a twinkling. They say IL
| would be impossible To keep quorum
| here or TO do any business. The senators
and representatives are eager to get home.
Tho Outlook.
Today the outlook is that the tariff bill
| will pass the senate about the 9th of July.
| 1t may be q day or two earlier, certainly
| not many days later In week or ten
| days it Is believed the amendments put
upon it by tho senate can be arranged with
tho house OF representatives. This Is
called the conference work. Each branch
| appoints committee of conferees to meet
| together and arrange the differences. The
| conferees set together, fix up compro-
misses and then report TO their respective
| houses for instruction. III they are accept
| ed by both sides, well and good; the
thing is done. If either house rejects, the
| confercos have TO arrange "A new basis Of
| compromise.
1t is an axiom among experienced legis-
| lators that a conference committee Is the
| place To leRislate There is where the
sharp workers have an advantage. Con-
| ference reports arc often adopted rather
oarelessly by tho senate or house, particu-
| larly the house, and items sometimes creep
| into bills in the most inoxplicable and sur
| prising manner. An old lobbyist once
| told me that il used Co be favorite trick
| of his class years ago to pass an innocent
sort of bill through one house, then
| through the other, with some trifiing
amendment, and then To "flx" the confer
| enco committee SO that it would really in
troduce new legislation, which would be
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| much of this is done nowadays. In fact,
the whole tone Of legislative work is high
or than it was 90 years ago.
Since his return from his trip to the
| Nashville exposition President Mckinley
has been warm in his praises Of tho south
ern people and Of the manner in which
they received him. His heart was really
touched 10y the warmth of their welcome.
1.-THE audience which l addressed on the
exposition grounds in Nashville" the
president told mcmber of the cabinet
who was not on the journey, twas the
finest audience j ever spoke to-that is, 10
was most perfectly and completely an
| American audience. Not | per cent of the
people present were anything but native
Americans, and most of them could date
their ancestry back through many genera
tions of Americans. IL Is only I'm the south
that we find these all American gatherings
of people.
Southern Enterprise.
Nashville has impressed itself upon the
| president as a wonderfully enterprising
city. Mr.. Mckinley took occasion TO tell
all his friends of the surprising extent and
beauty of tho exposition and To praise the
people Of the south for their pluck and
tenacity. Ii does not look much like hnrd
times when the people Of n city like Nash.
Vile will go ahcad and spend $3.50. 600 In
an exposition right i'm tho face Of the cry
OF hard times. The president thinks the
people are not suffering as much from the
hard times rs they think they are, just rs
they were not as prosperous In the boom
days ne thcv believed they were. The
most they need now, I'm his opinion, Is con
fidenco I'm themselves and the future.
Nashville has become celebrated in the
national capital as The city which contains
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