Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-27
CONGRESS.
An Early adjournment Thought to be I'M
possible.
WASHINGTON Star

An Early adjournment Thought to be I'M
possible.
Washington Star.
The chances for the much-talked-of early
adjournment of Congress grow beautifully
less with each passing day. 1t is now almost
the LIST of April, and as yet none of the more
important appropriation bills have even beer
considered, and the larger, such as the legis
| lative and sundry civil bills, have not ever
been considered by the appropriation com
mlttee. It would puzzle student of the
proceedings of legislative bodies to tell JUS
what the Forty-si1th Congress has done dur
ing the four monthss NEARLY that it has been
| in session. The calendar of the House, it is
| true, is loaded with many bills, some of them
important ones, too, but the chances of pass
| ing many of them are slim indeed.
Mr.. McMahon, of the appropriation
committee of the House, says that the com.
mittee will be able to report the appropria
| ton bills to the House as fast as the House
is ready to consider them. The plan now il
| to call up the consular and diplomatic bill as
soon as possible, and when it is disposed Of
to take up the Indian bill, to be followed by
the army and navy appropriation bills. The
river and harbor bill is being perfected by the
committee on commerce, but it is not the
intention to report it until the tag end OF
the session, when-it being log rolling
bill-it will be rushed through under sus-
pension of the rules perhaps without read
ing, as there has been at least one instance
of such proceeding.
The funding bill reported from the ways
and means committee will probably not be
passed this session. 1t was made the special
order for consideration more than fort
night ago, but the order was set aside, and
the only consideration it has yet had is in
buncombe speeches which were delivered on
Saturday last.
The Senate is really ahead of the House in
business. 1t is ready to 60 on with appro
priation bills as fast as the House sends
them over. 1t is expected that some dispo-
sition will be made this week of the Geneva
award bill, and in such an event the higher
branch will have nothing to seriously en-
gage it's attention until it receives bills from
the House. The chances are that the i'm
mediate deficiency bill which the House pass
ed on Friday last will hang fire for some
weeks, and lead to an interesting political
debate.
At to-morrow's meeting of the House
COmmlttee on electlOnS IL WILL % 0eclQeQ
whether or no the attempt will be made to
unseat Washburn, of the Third Minnesota
district, and seat Ignstius Donnelly in his
place. Should Washburn be unseated, it
will give the Democrats majority of the
vote by States, and in the event of the Presi-
dental election being thrown into the
House, give the Democrats majority of one
vote. The Republicans, however, will resist
to the full extent of parliamentary Law, such
movement on the part of the
Democrats, and will charge that it
has for an object the pre-
meditated plan to capture the next Presi-
dency for the Democrats, whether their can
didate is elected or not. 1t is said that
Chairman Springer, of the elections commit
tee, is opposed to making report in the
case at present, and as the committee Ii very
evenly divided on the merits of the contest,
it is Just probable that the Democrats will
refrain from making contest to seat Don
nelly.
At best, viewed in any light, it is hard to
see how Congress can get through its work
and adjourn before the middle of June, if,
indeed, it is able to got through before the
lat Of Auoust.