, 1875-02-28

CONDITION. Q3 GEA4do 1la GoiaH1e1&9-.
The official existence of the present Con-
grcss expires March 3 By q construction Of
inv it has been determined that March does
not end until March at noon. Consequent
", 1o o'clock, meridian, on March is the
utmost limit Of the present session, which,
counting from Monday at 10 i. m, includes
only seventy-four consecutive hours. Allow
ing six hours day for recesses on Monday,
Tuesday, aud Wednesday, and four hours on
Thursday, the actual working hours left num-
bar but ffty-two or just sufficient time in
which to call tho yeas and nays in tho House
100 times. The condition Of business is
rs follows: The Fertilization, Pension,
Naval, West Point Academy, and Con-
,sular and Diplomatic Appropriation bills
have passed, and have been signed;
the Army, Post-Oaice, and Indian Approprla-
ton bills have been returned with amond-
ments to the House, md are on the Speakers
table; the River and Harbor bill IS in the
Senate; the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill
is pending in the House; the Legislative,
Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bill is
before a Conference Committee; the Deli
cheney bill hns not yet been reported.
Of other measures, the bill increasing taxes
is in the Senate, reported By the Finance
Committee without approval. The bills to
a1mit Colorado and New Mexico are in the
House, having been amended by the Senate.
| The reports Of the several Committees on
Alabama. Louisiana, and Arkansas, have yet
to be acted on in the House. Tho bill
| providing q new Government for tile Dis
| t1act Of Columbia, and one authorizing
| the levy Of tax in that District, are IN the
House unacted on. The bill providing for
the vast system Of water end canal improve
1nents is pending in the Senate, as is the bill
| to eoualize the bounties Of soldiers serving
in the 1ete War. The Foros bill, when passed
bv the House, will have to go to the Senate,
| md be there debated The bill regulating
the navigation of lakes and rivers. called the
Steamboat bill, and which Senator Chandler
takes deep interest in, is in the Senate.
Hero is IN army Of business awa'ting &C
| ton. in one OF the other, or in both, Houses
Of Congress- In the Senate, there is no
.sprevious question:" and the twenty-four
Democrats in that body, if so disposed,
eau talk any measure to death We
have not included in this list Of
pending measures Tom scotts subsi'
dy bill, assuming that measure to be
dead, but still it may turn up yet In the
House every call of. the ycns and nays con-
sunes hnlf an hour. The minority, there
fore, after to-day, will have it in their power
to dofeat almost any measure. There is no
disposition, wo suppose, to defeat any OF the
appropriations, unless the Administration
leaders persist in pushing other and objec
tionablo bills to the front
We must no: forget to say that the Senate
bill regulating the manner Of counting ths
votes Of the Electoral College-a very i'm
portant measure, and essential as apreventivt
Of future national strife-is in the HOUSE
waiting action It will require two-thirds q
the House to take up any bill after to-day
So, unless the Republicans can keep thei
men in attendance, they: viii be power1ess
The prot1acted debates, however, hays Re