Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-09
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. KEEPING UP THE RECORD A Congress That Beats
 Them All IN POINT OF IDLENESS. Little Done During The
 Long Session. A SUNDAY RIOT AT NEWRY. The Orange And Green En
 Collision.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Our Easy Going Congress-Porsuine the Slow Tenor of its Way-But Little Iu- elinatfOn to Push the Business of the SesstOn-August Likely to Find thg Body In Session.
 WASHINGTON, June 9.-The Mexican pen.
 sion bill will probably be taken up in the
 Senate tomorrow. The 'tpauper clause" has
 been stricken out. MT. Hoar has an amend
 ment pending to extend the provisions of
 the measure to the Union soldiers This will
 undoubtedly lead to an interesting debate.
 The Utah bill will be the next taken in hand.
 It Is expected that the legislative appropria-
 ton bill will be reported during the week and
 passed. The close of the Chicago conven-
 tion on Friday will give to the House to-
 morrow good working force so far as
 numbers are concerned, but the returned
 members will have good deal to do in tell
 ing what they did and saw so that but little
 business is likely to be done beyond the call
 of States in the morning The District of
 Columbia is entitled to the remainder of the
 day, but if any other interest wants it the
 House will disregard it's previous order and
 go on with anything else that may be urged.
 Tuesday has been given to MT. Eaton for his
 bill in relation to the election
 of President and Vice President.
 after which Mir. Randall will endeayor'to
 bring forward the deficiency bill reported yesterday. There is not much in that bill to excite debate, yet advantage may be taken of the latitude given in Committee of the
 Whole to interject half score or more of political speeches. Mr. Randall will, how- ever, try to prevent this, as he feels that the interests of the Democratic party demand as early an adjournment of Congress as prac- ticable. The River and Harbor committee
 which is in the first year of it's existence as a standing committee, being an offshoot from the Committee on Commerce. will insist that their bill be brought up next. The chances are that the Appropriations committee will win. If so the deficiency bill will absorb the business days of the week, Friday being pri- vate bill day and Saturday is assigned to the bill to amend the Thurman railroad act. Owing to the absence of so many Republicans at both ends of the Capitol nothing was done last week by any of the conference committees and the two appropriation bills-.he military acad- emy and agrioultursI-that have become laws still stand ss a credit to more than six months work of the Forty eighth Congress- The naval postofice, Indian and penfion bills have been sent to conference, but there is en inclination not to push matters in relation to them until all the other appro- priation bills are ont of the House. The subcommittee on the sundry civil bill are working at it and expect to re port it to the full committee sometime this week, leaving the Notifications bill. which is to be mere shell, to follow. The Senate committee is restive at the delay and members express their determina- tion not to work nights and Sundays in mid l summer to hurry through the bills that the House has taken all winter and spring to work upon. Whatever action the Ways and Means committee may take az to l final adjournmant at it's session tomorrow, he Senate is not likely to endorse it because of the political complications that may mise between this time and the day set for l Adjournment. The house will be glad to get 1 through before July 8, although tine land | grant forfeiture men and public building men desire moro time to clear 1 he calendar of their special bills. As the l lays slide by with little nothing done, the l prospects, of adjournment recede and it will | lot be surprising if August finds Congress till in session.