The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-05-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
LEGISLATION PROSPECT OF ADJOURN
MENT BY THE 1sT OF JULY.

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WASHINGTON, May 4th, 1880.
| The District of Columbia appropriation
bill without any material amendments was
passed by the house on Tuesday in the
shape reported by the appropriation com
mittee. The passage of this bill puts the
house ahead of its appropriation committee
in the dispatch of business. The latter
committee has not now ready any appropri-
alton bill to report nor will it have any
this week. Next week it is expected that
| the legislative, executive, and judicial bill
will be completed and reported, to be fol-
lowed with the postal bill. There are but
four appropriation bills yet to be reported,
viz: The legislative, executive, and iudic-
ial the postal, the river and harbor and the
general deficiency. None of these bills
will contain any riders. Should the prcsi-
dent sign the army bill and the immediate
deficiency bill, there is well grounded be-
lief that congress will adjourn sine die by
July LIST. If, however, he vetoes these
bills, and the Democrats again lock horns
with the president of course the final ad-
journment will be delayed. There are con-
ficting rumors as to what the president
will do. A good many Republicans say
that he will veto both bills, but no one who |
makes the statements has other than mere
belief to base it upon. The friends of |
General Grant hope that vetoes will be forth |
coming, for they indulge in the belief that
such course on the part of the president Will
stir up the Democrats, provoke sectional
debate, and the net result will be to
strengthen the 'strong mans canvass.
The Democrats generally believe that the
president will sign both bills because he
signed last years army bill with the idcnti-
cal amendment which is in this years, and
that he will sign the deficiency bill because
the marshal's amendment was originally
offered by General Garfield, and is really a
Republican compromise.
The present house Of representatives has
been made the victim of deliberate imposi-
ion on the part of its own members, so
hat the existence of mania may fairly be
inspected. Mr.. Acklen, of Louisiana, first
howed symptoms of it in February, when
lie presented and got printed a report pur- |
,orting to come from the committee on for
ign affairs, but in reality an unauthorized
oncoction of his own, and that he has not
recovered is proved by his introduction last
week OF bill having no relation to the re-
port which was supposed to accompany and
Justify it, and which on investigation turn
ID out to be plagiarism from Chief JUS
ice Marshall IN famous case to be found
n the law books. The contagion reached
he delegate from Wyoming territory, Mr..
stephen W. Downey, who introduced bill
providing for certain paintings on the
'als of the national capitol" namely, to
"the birth, life, death, and
of Christ, as told in the four
iospels, and, on the following day, was ac- 5
orded permission to print his argument" t
/ favor Of the bill. A week ago this argu-
lent appeared, covering the first
fteen pages of the Congressional Record
nd copyrighted by the author. It consist. 1
of poem entitled THE Immortals," in
Wyoming blank verse, interspersed with
letrical quotations from Dante, Tennyson,
The Rock of Ages etc, and adorned q
18th pictorial emblem. h
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