The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-07-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
rFrom our Regular Correspondent. /

from our 1tee-nlAr CORES pondenI.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July Is, 's2.
I; Prominent members of the maiorit,
in congress are Of opinion that tn
house will adjourn on Monday tht
goth inst. 1t is thought there is no
much disposition on the part Of th'
house to force and proloug debate OF
the tariff question. On tho other hand
Eff it shall be decided to take up the
contested election cases it viii be i'm.
possible to dispose of them before the
first of August.
| At meeting held Immediately after
the adjournment Of the house yester-
day, by the Republican caucus com
mittee on the order of business, steps
were taken to ascertain definitely how
much time it would require to obtain
a quorum of Republican members, 50
that if it shonld be thought advisable,
the pending contested election cases
might be taken mp and probably dis
posed of before final adjournment.
The committee deferred action in
the matter until the information can
be obtained, when another conference
will be held, probably. The commit
tee decided that the house shall pre-
coed with the consideration of the sen
ate amendments to the General Def
cheney Appropriation bill, and that the
next order of business shall be the con
sideration of The River and Harbor bill
as amended by the senate. These two
measures, it is thought, will consume
two days.
Some of the members of the Repub
hoan majority have questioned the ex
Pedieney of proceeding to the con-
sideration of the contested election
cases during the present session, but
the prevailing opinion, rs shown by
the discussion in the caucus committee
seemed to be that, if a quorum can be
secured within reasonable tune, it
will be to the advantage of the party
to dispose Of them. Should it be found
that a quorum can be promptly pro-
cured, the arrangement will be to take
up the South Carolina case of Smalls
against Tillman on Tuesday or We'd
nesday next, and as soon as that shall
have been disposed of to consider the
report of the committee on elections
that the seat now eceu-
pied by Mr.. Shelley, of Alabama, be !
declared vacant.
BY the time these two cases are out |
Of the way it is probable that the South |
Carolina case of Lee against Richard |
son will have been acted on by the |
and will be ready for con-
sideration in the house.
The eighth bill, numerically, of those |
On the speakers table in the house is
-he bill to pension General Grant, |
which passed the senate some months
ago. Members Of all political psrties
IL the house who were asked about the |
matter to-day gave general opinions
hat the bill weuld not pass the house
his session. They believed that ii
would be laid aside in order TO pass
more important measures on the table |
which have already passed the senate.
Among these bills are the following |
To provide an alchoholic liquor traffic
to investigate the amounts
IF money due United States citizens
or supplies furnished the Sioux and
Dakota Indians in 1860 and 1862 ; to
provide for the conversion and redemp-
ion of ten dollar refunding certificates.
These are the most important bills
but altogether there are nearly
NO hundred and fifty senate and house
ills on the speakers table. i