Show A Republican Progr > mme I Washington 17 Republicans in heHouse have especially abandoned I i the ways and means committee tariff bill and taken up the senate bill as the only chance of passing a tariff at this session The first step in this direction was taken last week when Kasson introduced a resolution to change the rules of the house the object of which was to get the senate bill without delay whenever should reach the house The second step was taken this forenoon when the ways and means committee yielded the floor to the appropriations commltttee a move which meant that the committee desired to pass over the time without with-out further action on their bill The third important n ova came tonight when Sherman asked the senate to substitute the metal schedule of the house bill for its own The plan of procedure of members of tne ways and means committee is this the House will keep at work on its own bill until the Senate bill is put upon the speakers table Then the republicans will collect their forces and carefully form them and when sure of every vote and of a working majority the Kaason rule will be adopted This can be done without delays in spite of dilatory motions from the other side if ally be made and then a motion will be made to concur in the Senate amendments to the internal revenue bill This will throw the bill into a conference committee and there the tariff bill will be stopped as an amendment to the revenue bill and the two plans of reduction of internal revenue rev-enue and revision of tariff will be reported and admitted to a vote in both branches as one bill The success of this plan depends upon the immediate passage of the Senate bill If the Senate fails to pass it as soon as the appropriation bills are out of the way in the House the member in charge of the House blllwill make a determined effort to stop the discussion and pass it This republican programme may be upset by a majority of the democrats voting vot-ing with the minority of republicans republi-cans to pass the Senate bill without change or amendment It is the intention of republicans in the House on Monday to attempt at-tempt to pass the internal revenue bill under a suspension of the rules similar to tke one recently agreed to by the Senate The House passed the revenue bill last season and the Senate amended it by reducing the tobacco tax to eight cents per pound The object of the republicans republi-cans in passing another bill is to have it ready for concurrence as an independent measure if the tariff bill fails |