Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CONGRESSIONAL WORK. Plenty of Business for the
 Session. Important Bills on Hand. An Extra Session Predicted by
 Some. Encouragement of Chinese Commerce. No Discriminating Duties Against
 Imports.
Encouragement of Chinese Commerce,
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

But Heaps of Business on Hand-SOme
 Important Legislation Pending.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-Speaker Randall
 has arrived here and was busy in his room
 on the House side of the Capitol to-day.
 There have been so far comparatively few
 arrivals of members, but they are expected
 to come in rapidly within the next few days
 As soon as Senators and Representatives ar
 rive they report the fact to the postmasters
 of the Senate and House respectively, in or
 der that they may promptly receive their
 mails, and up to this time not more than
 thirty arrivals all told have been reported.
 The Capitol has been prepared for the recep- ton of Congress, and nearly all the clerks and officers of both houses have returned and resumed their duties.
 Speaker Randall says he expects there will be moderately exciting session, whatever that may mean. Opinions differ among the officers of Congress and the members now here with reference to the business to be transacted, but the preponderating senti- ment is that very little will be done other than the passage of the appropriation bills and the enactment of absolutely necessary legislation. That neither house will be at loss for something to do is shown by the con- dition of the calendars of both houses, which will be laid before them on Monday next There are already pending in the Committee of the Whole House coming over from last session over two hundred bills, all of which involve to a greater or less extent the expenditure of money or donation of public Among the most important meas ures is a bill to provide for the payment of the public debt, and what is known as the funding bill There is a necessity for the passage of a funding bill of some sort, but it is believed in some circles that the Republi- cans will endeavor to prevent it's passage at this session in order that they may claim the credit of doing so when they come into pow CT in the House. There are some who be- Iieve there will be an extra session of the Forty y-seventh Congress, and in that event the Republican majority will want to origi- nate all important legislation, including fund ing bills and revenue bills. Among the more important bills pending in the Committee of the Whole are bills to regulate duties on hoop, band and scrap iron, to reg ulate customs duties on sugar and certain other articles named therein, all of which were reported last session and will be about the only tariff bills to be considered. The other bills pending are the following To reg llate the importation of raw materials to be ! in the United States and used n the construction and repair of vessels for l he recoinage of the half dollar to authorize new metric gold coin for international use % be known as the tsstella"; 8 number of ! other bills in relation to the coinage of gold 1 md silver 8 bill to pension the soldiers of l he Mexican war and number of other bills re- I +rx.a State immigration bill for the relief of | owners and purchasers of lands sold for di- l .ect taxes in the insurrectionary States; a | Jill to provide for experiments with movable | orpedoes; a bill in relation to the Chinese l fund and large number of bills | or the erection of public buildings in diff erent parts of the country The House cal | ndar, as it is called, is made up of bills I which do not involve appropriations of money, 1 ands or other public property and contains | 50 bills. The first is bill to prohibit fede- | al officers and contractors from making con ributions for political purposes It has been n the calendar since June 12, 1879. It was lways opposed so vigorously that it never ould be brought up for consideration. To attempt to pass 1t at the coming ession would be a waste of time. Among ther important bills on the calendar re the interstate commerce bill, the bill for he relief of Fitz John Porter, the bill to re- Gr1CG the 6LQlRTdG1Ou O1 Ou1uS60 GO Gu0 'tates, the bill to authorize national banks tQl make loans on real estate, the bill to trahsfef4k he Indian office to the War department, etc. The private calendar contains nearly 1000 | pills, mostly for pensions. There on the l ,peaker's table nineteen House bills with | amendments of the Senate and ninety riginal Senate bills on their first and second eading. The most important of these is the I Jill to provide for the appointment of a com mission to investigate the question of the Il arif. The Senate calendar contains twenty | tight resolutions and 225 bills, among them he following: To prohibit military inter- erence at elections to extend the jurisdic- ion of the United States Supreme Court to stablish an educational fund and apply the | proceeds of the sale of public lands to the ed- lcation of the people providing for con- mission to consider and report what legisla ion is needed for the better regulation of commerce. among the States to extend the ime for the completion of the Texas Pacific nd Northern Pacific railroads ; to provide or the enforcement of the eight-hour law, etc. !
 It will be thus observed that the members if both houses can jump right into business f they desire to do so and need not wait the of business by committees as sual. It is doubtful whether the calendars Tere ever larger than at present and not one enth of the bills on them will become laws. )ne week from to-day the Forty Con- ress convenes for its third and final session. 1 rom now on Senators and members of the l over house will arrive daily. Each train ! 7iIl bring to the city the returning Congress nen and scores of visiting strangers The treets already show signs of the large influx ! f visitors who are attracted here when Con- ress is at work. The hotel men say the out ook for the winter is most suspicious, and or the inaugural season the hotels will not I e able to furnish the necessary accommoda- ions to meet the demand. The House Coms aittee on Appropriations it is expected will ave quorum in the city tomorrow.
 Prof. Monroe, who with Congressman Sin | Teton will have charge of the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill, are in the city nd will proceed at once to complete the ! ill
 Ex-Senator Sprague of Rhode Island, ac- ompanied by his son Willie, arrived in the ity yesterday To-day the ex-Senator left or the East on the limited express. Tester | ay he called on General Garfield, it is said ! 0 present a New England man for Cabinet ! osition. Whom he recommended for the lace is not disclosed.
 One of the pleasantest receptions given to I teneral and Mrs. Garfield during the past 7eek was breakfast on Saturday morning t the residence of Hon. and Mrs L. F. Nor on. The other guests were General and frs. Sherman, Secretary and Mrs. Evarts, .dmiral Porter, Chief Justice Carter, Com lodore and Mrs. Temple, General and Mrs l 'eale, Representative Amos Townsend and ! Iaior Swaine private secretary of the Presi- ent-elect. General and Mrs. Garfield left l he city this morning at 10 o'clock on 1 pecial going by way of Pittsburg. The 'resident-elect was accompanied by Congress nan Townsend, Richard Smith of the Gin innati Gazette, H. G. Urner, president of the incinnati Chamber of Commerce, and Major waine. The President-elect will not again ! isit this city till he comes to be fnaugurated.
 Removal Of Discriminating Duties.
 WASHINGTON Nov. 29.-The following was 'sued to-day by the President of the United tates of America:
 A PROCLAMATION | Whereas, satisfactory evidence has been given me ! y the government of his majesty the Emperor Of | nina that no discriminating duties of tonnage or | nposts are imposed or levied in the ports of that ation upon vessels belonging wholly to citizens of UnitdA States upon the products, manufactures merchandise imported in the same, therefore, \ I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United tates of America by virtue of the authority in me