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Show THE WEEK'S WORK To Be Done By Congress is Outlined. BONDS A.ND ELECTIONS To be Considered by the Senate In the House Voting: on the Tariff Bill and Pending- Amendments Will Not Begin for a Week At Ieuet. Washington-, Jan. 21 From present indications tbe senate will divide the time this week between the federal elections bill and the question of the bond issue. There is a popitive agreement upon the part of the republicans to take up the elections bill with a view to its final disposition. On the other hand, the continued postponement of the diECussion of the subject would seem to indicate they Have made some design, quietlj brushing brush-ing the subject Jaside until the tariff bill shall reach the senate and absorb ab-sorb the entire time. It is evident the democratic leaders have Borne apprehension appre-hension of his course, and have determined deter-mined it ehall not succeed. i It ''ill be impossible to keep the bond question entirely out of the senate and there is a possibility it may be subject to considerable debate. According to the special order, voting on the tariff bill and the pending amendments in the house will begin a week from tomorrow. The coming week will witness a fight over the trie amendments to be offered to the bill from the democratic side. The fall measure of the democratic opposition to the bill will then develop and considerable bad blood will doubt less le manifested. The sua:ar men will make a strong fight on the ground that sugar is a revenue article, ana in accordance with the dictates of the Chicago platfdrm should be made dutiable to supply the deficit which it ! is estimated the customs schedule of the Wileon bill will cause. But the chances for the adoption of a sugar duty are slim. Tuesday is set apart for the consideration of the amend ments of the free coal and iron schedules. sched-ules. If the republicans join with the . coal and iron rren they will make the vote cIosj; but the democrats of the ways and means committee manifest no alarm. Later in the week, tbe internal revenue rev-enue bill, including tbe income tax, - v,-ilt ytobablv be ofiered as an amend ment to the bill. If the advocates of the income tax are successful and the measure is put on the tariff bill as a rider, it will cause several democrats to vote acainst the entire measure. |