Show MORE TARIFF TALK A BILL OS MATTERS secretary vilas solicited for peculiar information correspondence or the KUI carlisle and mr mills have decided not to call a meeting of the house committee on rules to ar caage the order of business for the remainder cf the session their reason for taking this stand is the fear that the pres baro for the passage of such measures as the dependent pension bill would be greater than many of the democratic members could stand if an attempt was made to arrange the order of business busia ess and all of the leaders of tho party aro particularly ticul arly desirous that no legislation carrying extravagant appropriations shall tho house this session this decision which cuts out everything that cannot get the unanimous consent of the house and the regular appropriation bills while somewhat hard upon many measures that ought to bo passed and would be if they could bs brought before the house is nevertheless a wise one the democrats are confident of recapturing tho house in 1890 thay ore also confident that the next congress will make many largo aud extravagant appropriations therefore a good and economical record for the last democratic house will furnish tho very host of arguments to go before the people to ask for the control of the house again economy and tariff reform will be tho democratic watch word turned up just as smilingly en wednesday as if many of its members were not suffering from the effects of overeating over eating and shall I 1 say ita over however much can be excused at this season which at other times would call for censure congressmen aro human and christmas comes but once a year both houses had more than a quorum at the opening and they went to work the senate on tho tariff bill and the housa oa the eiver aad harbor bill the republican members of the senate finance committee are having a picnic with the people who wish to have changes made in the senate tariff bill before ife is passed avery mail brings letters by the hundred and there is a continual stream of telegraph messengers pouring inta the committee room and as if that was nut sufficient the already over pro manufacturer comes himself to speak his demands one of them has just handed in a memorandum of forty different articles that ho tha dutie higher on he says he contributed largely to the lican campaign fund with the disi understanding that ha was to bo amply protected m this bill the republicans have agreed upon a number of amendments to the bill but they do abot daro to make them public until the vary last mom cm for fear of tha pressure that will be immediately brought to them to make further changes thore is a little lull in the blaine war here this weak though a telegram published a day or so ago say log that blaine had loft home for this city crested quite a hubbub until it wai learned to be false the anti blaine congressmen seem to be weakening at a very rapid rate perhaps that accounts for the cessation of hostilities for the time being sanator hiscock has gone to in in the interest of ex sen ator platt who rumor says is losing ground with harrison fei hay introduced a joint resolution providing for the admission of arizona and idaho A bill has been passed by the house providing that the omission by the sender to place a postage stamp on a letter bearing a special delivery stamp shall not hinder or delay the transmission and delivery thereof but the postage ahall be collected on the ds livery of the letter representative Dod gerys bill prohibiting hi biting any agent or attorney from receiving a fee in excess of 3 for ee caring an ine reasa of pension on ne count of an increase of the disability for which tho pension was originally granted or for securing a special act of congress m cases where the leation might bo obtained under tho general pension laws has been passed by tho house secretary vilas has received a letter from aa inquisitive citizen of massachusetts who wants to mow who harrisod Harr isoo has selected for his cabinet mr vilas is a very obliging sort of a man but he was not ablo to furnish tho information the down east gentleman wanted mr sherman made some of tho i silver senators mad when he presented tho petition of the national board of trado to the senate asling for the suspension of the purchase of silver bullion and the coinage of the silver dollar jan |