The Press., 1884-07-03
WASHINGTON LETTER..

Conoress wauts to adjourn on next Sat urolay. One stumbling block to so enfly an adjournment is in the conference com mittees, where the many additions and al- terations made by the senate to the navy, consular and diplomatic, army, pension, Indian and post office appropriations, have caused opposing views on these m as urcs to be held with great obstinacy. But the members of both houses arc getting very tired, ahd they may not ai 'ow any DO htical sqn. n.,bbie to keep them here. Many of them say even if some of the appropri- ati.ms have 10 be simply bridged over un- til they meet again, they must go.
 The third house, as the lobby Is called, is still in session, and has charge of many jobs not yet put through. It will try to tuck its pet measures quietly into some or the still pending patchwork bills, like the sundry civil, legislative, and general q if ciency. As is usual in the confusion Of a hurrielly closed session, there will be some crude legislation in the next few days.
 As to the house, it has nothing to do now, or rather it will do nothing now but make speeches, talk, quarrel, aud pa>s un- important measures. It is waiting on the senate which was late getting the appro- priation bills from the house. The seLate now has all these bills, which have not gone to the conference committees, and when. they are out Of the way the resolu- ton to adjourn will be adopted by the up per branch, and gratefully concurred in at the other end of the capitol.
 The senate is working energetically to- day over the river and harbor bill, but the amendment providing for a Missouri river commission, will provoke debate, when reached, and retard progress.
 The house wasted time on Saturday talk ing about the eight-hour bill, proposing tc give government employees who have work ed more than eight hours day since the eighthour law was passed. the extra pay to which they claim right. No conclu sion was reached, and the subject Is likely to go over to the next session.
 And so will many other bills. The cal endars of both houses are full of measures which ought to have been considered, ane which will stand little chance of being properly considered during the next shor session. But the senate could do nothing more than it did. It is already severa years ahead of the house with work.
 The practice of printing in the Congres sional Record, speeches which have nt vel . been delivered in the halls of congress anc of suppressing speeches which have b9et delivered has caused 8 good deal of trou ble and misunderstanding The way il which Senator Logan's record was assailee the other day in an unspoken speech which { member got leave to print, is case 1T point. Senator Logan's name appeared in list of alleged ''land grabbers" and his friends rushed at once to his vindica ton, thereby springing lively politica debate in the house, and calling forth f little speech in the senate from Gen. Flaw ley. The senator from Connecticut saiG the object of statement that Senator Lo gan held 80,000 acres of land, could only be to prejudice gentleman whose circum stances are such that he can hardly speal for himself, though abundantly qualified as everybody knows, to do so. MT. flaw ley further said that Senator Logan wa' only the owner of the land upon which hi father died, to which he had added little in his own state of Illinois, In the house Representative Valentine, and Cannon ex plained that Member McAdoo would no have made the statement on the floor tha he covertly inserted in the Record, an6 that 1t was meant to mislead the country.
 The Record purports and is intended te show what actually takes placein congress and after th1s session speeches that have not been delivered in either house will be prohibited its pages.