Show m mm TAX tariff bill before the THE STATE BANK TAX elands bill for coinage of the carisle correspondence it is the of senator voorhees ea and tha democrats of the finance coin of the senate to dispose of the tar tf bill in toe committee as speedily as ible and to hasten action on it in the senate A brief thae will probably be given to hearings the million leitera which the committee started out to send to and business roan thron eliout the country asking eer tain concerning the revision of the tariff will probably never amount to anything since the undertaking is euca a one that it would take fifty clerks to combile and arrange the and it would be at least aciz months before material thus se cured would b j A vigorous fight will be made before the committed by democrats in the senate to make radical chances in the bill the ficht against the income tax will run through the whole directly and indirectly affecting very other question of the bill but the most probable thing ppearl to be that whatever changes the finance committee may make in the how ever haul abd tbd fight by democratic st n acors may be the character of the bill will not bo changed it will probably be substantially the house bill when it paapaa the cenate and finally on going through conference will be as lon a step toward free trade as is the present bill in a general way the republican senators expect to follow the policy similar to that followed by the republicans in the house the result of this will probably bo about aa it was in the house that those asmo crets who eek to improve the bill from their point of diew by the duties on particular items will be disappointed to their hope of aid from re and will fail of their efforts it appears that the decree has gone forth that this bill agall ba pasted and all opposition is to b adden down the timidity of the opposition amona decoo crais displayed in the house will be repeated in the senate in all probability the advocates of tb income tax de dare that that proposition will haye four more votes in abo senate than any other proposition revenue the fear haa been expressed that in bomb of the more feverish democratic quarters of the earth the doting per fot in the bouse on the tariff do bate would be accepted as a model and a precedent it seems that the somewhat exuberant enthusiasm of the bent lemen who seized hon W L lifted him to their and car ried him about triumphantly like a banner or a parlor stove are now regarded by many of their coan patri otal as statesmen of extra and perception it ie not impossible to in this yiew of the matter the occasion was the great auditorium wa full to suffocation cation beautiful and wealthy women thronged thron ged the floor the very at mo sphere sizzled with electricity the time beeme I 1 apa for hyperbole tha opportunity called for horseplay it ia comforting to reflect that the precedent cannot be adopted by all political sects there is the hon thomas bulky reed for instance ano may again become leader of his party on a majority in the house he may fahily create a furore and make the echoes groan and rumble but he will be lifted on no mana shoulders and be made no unnatural elevation reeds bulk protects him he may be the moses the solomon the david and the joshua of his party but beyar at his present weight its balaam anere will be no repeal of the state bank tax in this congress unless the frieada of that proposition find s way tn get the matter before the house without the aid of the banking and cur rency committee that committee that finacy refused by a vote of eight to nine to report favorably the bill for repeal and the advocates of tha bill took advantage olevery parliament ary tactic ahey did not succeed in re the decision of the committee the rampant are som what premature in their 0 democratic dissolution in the land ko long as w eee mr richard croker in deep confabulation with col daniel 8 lament BO long as we know that hon don manual dickenson is ready to come to washington on short notice so lone as we have reason to believe that the are solid for hornblower and that josiah ia unanimous forQuin cv long can jacksonian Jac konian continue to hope for tho beet why fear ala break in hawaii some n legislation and few vacant chairs at beacy white bobae fedas so long as boroker and lamont join forces and swap thoughts in the interest of preservation it is tha purpose of aar bland to call up in the honea his bill for the coinage of the silver bullion in the treasury and the issue of against tha surplus ia anticipation of the coinage as soon aa th hawaiian question is out of the way this ia stated by secretary carlisle to b the object of the bill ia to make immediately available for he cur rent expenses of the thial amount secretary carlisle appears to be a little bit any on the bonds ot sympathy in some burter D 0 feb jtb |