Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-22
The business BEFORE Congress.

reported. He lnCllneS 10 UnP DPlleI. from WHAT
he knowS Of the case already, that the rumors
and reports are un1ounded.
The business Ref0re Congress.
AN EARLY ADJOURNMENT IMPOSSIBLE.
The chances for the -talked-of early ad-
journment of Congress grow beautifully less
with each passing day. 1t is now almost the
1St Of April, and as yet none of the more i'm
portant appropriation bills have even been con-
sidered, and the larger. such as the legislative
and sundry civil bills. have not even been con-
sidered by the appropriation committee. 1t
would puzzle a student of the proceedings of
legislative bodies to tell just what the Forty
sixth Congress has done during the four
months nearly that it has been in session. The
calendar of the House, 1t Is true, is loaded with
many bills some of them important ones, too.
but tie cIanccees of passing many OF them are
slim indeed.
Mr.. MacMahon, of the appropriation commit
tee OF the House, says that the committee will
be able to report the appropriation bills to the
House as fast as the House is ready to consider
them. The plan now is 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 appropria-
ton 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
bll-it will be rushed through under suspen-
sion of the rules perhaps without reading, as
there has been at least one instance of such
The funding bill reported from the ways and
means committee will probably not be passed
this session. 1t was made the special order for
the order was set aside, and the only consider
alton 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 apprOprfa-
tion bills as fast as the House sends them over.
1t is expected that some disposition will be
made this week OF the Geneva award bill. and
il such an event the higher branch will have
nothing to seriously engage its attention until
it receives bills from the House. The chances
are that the immediate deficiency bill which
the House passed on Friday last will hang fire
for some weeks, and lead to an interesting
political debate.
At to-morrow'S meeting of the House commit
tee on elections it will be decided whether or no
the attempt will be made to unSeat WaShburne.
OF the Sd Minnesota district, and seat Ignat1us
Donnelly in his place. Should Washburne be
unseated, it will give the democrats majority
OF the votes by states, and, In the event of the
presidential 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-
med1tated plan to capture the next presidency
for the democrats, whether their candidate is
elected or not. 1t is said that Chairman Springer,
Of the elections committee, is opposed to max
ing report in the case at present, and as the
committee Is very evenly divided on the merits
of the contest, it is just probable that the dem
ocrats will refrain from making contest to seat
Donnelly.
At best, viewed in any light, it is hard to see
Journ before the middle of June, If, indeed it is
able to get through before the 1st of August.
AMONG THE EASTER Books published by Lip
pincott & Co., Philadelphia, this year, Is a fine
poem. by Mrs. Gen. Eastman, of this city. 1t is
called EASTER Angels"
DARK HORSES AND OTHER HoRsES.-EX-Con
gresham Wilson, of Iowa, who is personally
warm friend of Senator Blaine, and who
would prefer his nomination as President over
all the contesting candidates, says che does not
believe that any dark horse will be nominated
at Chicago. He thinks the republican party has
done with such experiments and that either
Grant or Blaine will be the nominees While he
prefers Blaine, he thinks Grant will be nomtna-
ted, and that there will be no formal ballot
taken at the Chicago convention. His view of
the situation is that before the convention meets
ed to his candidacy to nominate him, and for
the reason that those who will not vote for him
will not care to openly show their hands, his
nomination will be allowed to be made by ac-
clamation. On the other hand Congressman
Jorgensen, Of Virginia, thinks that dark horse
will be nominated and that Washburne is the
man. He thinks the antagonism to Grant will
be so open that the machine will mott dare nom-
mate him, even though in their power to do
so. In that event, that Grants friends
will naturally gravitate to Mr.. Wash
burne rather than to either Mr. Blaine or
sherman; He says that he thinks Seymour
will be the democratic nominee; that no dele
gate from Virginia will vote for Ttlden, and
that If he did, he could not come back and live
in peace In the state. Senator Conkling is re-
ported to have said one day last week: 7'There
will be no dark horse at Chicago. We have
had enough of dark horses" The fact that
Senators Conklfng and Cameron went over to
Harrisburg to consult with Simon Cameron,
indicated that things political are very much
this is h--li Of a time any way.
TREASURER GnFnLAN is confined at home by
an attack Of sciatica.
WHAT'S IN THE WND?-A prominent politician
in Washington this morning received private
telegram from New York city, as follows
speaker Randall and A. NJ. Gibson, Washing
ton correspondent OF the Son, dined with Tilden
yesterday" The dispatch was shown at the
Capitol
SENATOR GogDoR, SENATOR HILL AND Miss
RAYMoND.-senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, and
his friends pronounce the statement that they
bringing about the Raymond scandal fabrica.
cation entire. They say-that no thought of
Senator Gordon In any such connection was
ever entertained: that on the contrary Senator
Senator Hill In this matter and he has been
willing and anxious to aid the latter In any Way
he could. Miss Raymond was at the Capitol
twice to-day pretending to be In search of SEN
through window, which was the first time he
has seen her since she came to Washington.
She was informed to-day that she would never
get any money from Mr.. Hill or his friends and
that she might ~ well cease her efforts 1t that