Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-05-08
NO. 19

stance that executive sessions shall be set forthwith, the first one to-day, for ! the transaction of accumulated busi- ness in the following order: Refer ence of nominations now on the table Co appropriate con mitIees; second, consideration of pending treatiesi third, consideration of all nOmina- tions heretofore or hereafter reported
 from the Senate committee which re-
 spectively are not objected to by Re- publican Senators from the State tO
 winch the office appertains, or from
 winch, in case of national or tern tOrial appointments, the noini4ees
 are 10 be appointed IL was further expressly provided that aS soon as un- contested cases shall have been dis posed of the caucus shall again as semble for the purpose of determis
 ing what additional business should
 then be considered by the Senate, ana although iu the meantime the con tested cases. as above defined shall not be allowed tO impede the trans action of other business, the caucus is left wholly Unpledged as to its tu- ture action in regard Co them- The final agreement of the Republican caucus to provide for tAe immediate transaction Of all accumulated execu- tive business except a few contested nominations, is practically an aban- d0nment of the long continued strug- gle for the election Ot Senate officers, and fOreshadOws an adjournment Of the Senate sine die within the next two or three weeks at the farthest.
 The first result of special impOrt- ance to the Pacific Coast will undOubt- edly be the ratification of the Chinese treaties, which m ~ confidently be ex- pected to take place in day or two.
 The caucus, ln deference to the earnest representations of Senator Miller, has arranged that the Senate shall go into executive session lm- medIately after asSem bling to-day and that the Chinese treaties shall be tue first matters considered.
 IL is considered m Republican cir cles that the effect of dispOsing of practically all the important execu- i've session at an early day will be not only Go throw over until next winter the election of Republican officers for the Senate, but lead to 8 change Of Republican candidates for the posi- ton of Sergeant-at Arms and SecTe- taIv when the time for new election shall arrive There Is apparently no intention Co make "a change of candl- dates this session, but this talk of what may be expected next winter IS heard on every side and is known to have very substantial basis
 \ Gloomy View of the Mexican SituS-
 ton
 NEW ORLEANS, May 4.-The Pi"a- yupe, usually considered authority 70 Mexican affair, anticipates trou- b;es trom inc enormous subsidies . which her present rulers are sranting to railroad and other schemes, it be- ing utterly impossible hat she can | meet the heavy demands on her treas- ury and resources, or that the people will remain quiet under the strasn. Al the lowest cl. CulatiOn SlO0,U0OOU0 In subsidies are already gTsu,ed to railways. the Goult line frul Laredo Co the Citv ol Mexico lio- taking S20,C0J UUO from the treasury within LliE utAL rfsf f.fli B. CtAAtA NAhHtNAAN@ swell the amount 70 15,0O0,OOo or SS0, 100000 i0 te earned before 1883. Where the money Is 70 coms from, with an average annual income of but SI9 Og0 GOO t0 meet S24 OO0, 900 aver age annual expenditure for the Ordi- mary purposes of the government, IS problem which ij Is morally certaiS will speedily engage the attention Of statesmen, economists and politicians on both sides of the Rio Grande. The masses are already apparently grow Ing suspicious, and tedr Inc cncrOach- meut Oi northern capitalists When the millions and tens of millions of ' money are drawn out Of the country ' Co help pay for these im 1vOvcments, !, the administration which iavors these < schemes wall doubtless find 8 pOwer-- ful party arrayed against it. The ' United States will be called upon to protect Its citizens in their contracts and preserve theIr property trom de- strucuOn, and a conquest will be likely Co follow Bankruptcy or enormous taxation Is inevitable, if the subsidies are tO be met. and iu either case it ia , morally certain we shall have a recur renee of popular GiscOntent which will need but little prompting 70 run into revolution.