Show eifim CHIPS BARNES REWARD BILL A republican EXPLODED the senate appropriates for fellow fever relief senator jones of arkansas made a strong argument for tariff reform on the presidents message he characterized tho present protective tariff as a system of naked jobbery once more the republicans have been doomed to disappointment while waiting for tho democrats to help them out of a hole the republican senators have folly determined not to report a tariff bill at this session but they still pretend to be working on that tariff bill and they have been indulging in the hope that the house would pass a joint resolution setting an early day for adjournment which they would eagerly accept and then go on the stump and say that the democrats forced adjournment upon them and thus prevented their reporting a tariff bill bufa fortunately the bouso was wise and decided to wait for the senate to get ready to adjourn now the republicans of tho sonata will either have to report that tariff bill or else acknowledge gieir anabil ity to frame one they can take either hom of the dilemna in the meantime the people of the country should not forget that thornly tho only reason for congress session after october ast 1st is to allow the republican senators to report a tariff bill if they refuse to report a bill on their heads bo the responsibility for uselessly promulgating the session the senate has passed a joint resolution appropriating for tho relief of the yellow fever sufferers thea money to bo expended under the direction of alie president the senate refused to reconsider its vote on the chinese exclusion bill but the bill is now held bytho chairman of i house committee on enrolled bills pending the decision of a resolution offered in the senate by mr edmunds to hold the bill until china takes some definite action on the treaty senator beck is somewhat better and will it is hoped be able to resume his duties in december many peo pie think that his disease is similar to the one which carried general sheridan off if this bo true his congressional days are over it is proposed by some of the democratic senators if the republicans delay reporting their tariff bill much longer to submit a resolution discharging the finance committee from further consideration of the mills bill and bringing that measure before the senate they do not hope to pass the mills bill but to make the republicans produce their tariff bill mr cleveland has in answer to a senate resolution furnished that body with all the correspondence relating to the chinese treaty in possession of the state department it is evidently the intention of the republican members of the senate committee on foreign affairs to pigeonhole pigeon hole the canadian retaliation bill senator morgan says they shall not do so if he can possibly prevent it but its bard to see how he will be able to prevent it as the bill has been referred to a committee subcommittee sub consisting of himself mr evarts and mr sherman they are just two to his one representative matson the democratic candidate for governor of indiana is here for a few days ho expects to return to indiana in a week and remain there until election day he is exceedingly confident of his election and of carrying the state for cleveland he said we are going to carry the state but I 1 do not care to say by how large a plurality we have a decided advantage on the issue of adjusting the tariff but still there is no indication that the contest is to be a walk over the talk about the democratic party being opposed to pensions and the soldiers of indiana on that statement going to vote the republican ticket almost solidly is untrue they will divide as in the past senator mitchell is now probably sorry that he made the false and vicious charge against senator morgan of intoxication in the senate chamber hero is what one of senator morgans most bitter political opponents senator plumb has written concerning the absurd charge to whom it may concern 1 I say with pleasure and emphasis that I 1 have never seen senator john T morgan of alabama under the in huenke of liquor in the senate or elsewhere or otherwise incapacitated for the discharge of public duty senator morgan serves on one committee with me and I 1 am frequently thrown into association with him and should be likely to know if ho had been intoxicated respectfully P B PLUMB there are fifteen other statements signed by colleagues of senator morgan similar to the above representative burns has introduced a bill offering a reward of Sl to any person who will discover the true cause or germ of yellow fever with any certain means oi affecting its prevention destruction or material modification or who without discovering the causo cr germ of said disease shall discover a certain and practical mode of effecting its prevention destruction or material modification A bill authorizing the president to appoint gen W S brigadier general on the the retired list of the army lias boon introduced in the senate representative S S cox ans elected speaker pro tern of tho house to act during mr carlisles absence tho medical congress was in session hero days this week the house bill to make the department part ment of agriculture an executive department was up in the senate this week and would have been passed before this except for the item transferring tho weather bureau to the new department that has caused much wrangling and it is not yet over the bill is sure to become a low but the transfer of er bureau is doubtful D 0 sept 21 |