The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-04
TELEGRAPHIC
WASHINGTON.
Getting Ready for the Meeting
OF Congress-.
Governmental and LRW-Mak-
ing Affairs of the
Nation.

Washington, 2.-Cn the reassem bling
of Congress, next Tuesday, the first busi-
ness that will be taken up in the House
will be the report of the committee on
rules, the debate on which promises to be
quite extended.
of the elections committee, will have two
or three contested election cases to report
soon after the revision of rules shall be
disposed of.
The ways and means committee will
Immediately tske up for consideration
Gen. Garfe!d's bill, providing for the re-
funding of the and per cent bonds of
1881, and Chairman Woods conflicting
prof ositlon, limiting the secretary of the
treasury TO an issue OF bonds bearing not
higher rate of interest than 81 per cent.
The committee on appropriations in
tend 10 report Marshalls deficiency bill
next week, and its considerati Il is likely
TO provoke Tepetition,to some extent, of
the political debate of last session.
The banking and currency committee |
expect to take vote next week GA the |
Fort resolution, which in substance de- |
clares the expediency Of letting well |
enough alone in all matters of currency.
The Senate finance committee will also,
next week, enter upon its serious labors,
and be confronted with the various i'm
portant questions raised by the Bayard
resolution, the Warner silver bill, the
bill for the recoinsge of trade dollars
etc.
1t is understood that a movement will
be made at an early day in the House of
Representatives, to induce the foreign
affairs committee to formulate a bill very
materially abIidging the present diplo- |
matte system by wholly cutting eff a
uup, hor of foraio,D y1oiccioDc II
Regain, of Texas, chairman of the
House committee on commerce, believes |
that the session will not be brief The !
subjects of interstate commerce, shipping
and others are too important 20 be dis
posed of hastily.
BloHnt, acting chairman of the COM
mittee on appropriations reports that good
progress hiss been made and that prompt
action may be expected on the naval APP
preparation bill.
1t is stated on coed authority that the
state department viii make q proper re- i
turn in due season, to the resolution of
the House of Representatives, calling for
the correspondence with Consul MOsby.
The story that the state department would Il
decline for reasons of public expediency, a
to furnish the correspondence referred to,
is ssidto be unfounded- Il
chairman ALklns, OF the House COM |
mittee on appropriations, is improving fl
slowly. Although he is a great sufferer, CT
his physicians donot apprehend a serious
result, unless the eEysipelas should strike e.
in, and of this there is, at present, no sp D
parent danger. Is
New York, 3.-HeTdld'S Wsshington: Vi
The House committee on appropriations 2;
has received letter from the postmaster 6,
general, transmitting one from Assistant
Postmaster General Brady, in regard to l:
star service, which shows that this branch VI
Of the service is now costing at the rate n
of $I,727, 900 above the appropriation. cC
The annual cost of the present service is VI
stated to be $7,620,000, although the a:
appropriation is only 100000. General cl
Brady says without the appropriation ci
which he asks for, which is about $4,000 fl,
100, he will be obliged to curtsil the d.
Existing service in order to bring the OF
,ases within the existing appropriation. is
lie suggests thst 81, OOO,0U0 be given him &c
rom the unexpended balances of the past 80
our years. This, Brady says, will enable Ii
he department to maintain the present T.
ervice and besides afford margin for &c
and necessary increase during 81
he remaining half of the fiscal year. fc