Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-17
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS: GETTING DOWN TO WORK. A Busy Week In The Sen-
 ate. SLOW WORK IN THE HOUSE. The Calendar Full Of Un-
 finished Business. A REWARD FOR OSMAN DIGNA. The sheikhs Anxious To
 DemOunce Hinl.
\ REWARD FOR OsMAN DIGNA.
The Sheikhs Anxious TO
 DenOumce Him.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Our Slow Going COn9ress-Work Mapped Out for the Week-LfveIy Times Prom ised In the Senate-The Wretched COndi- ttOn of the House Calendar-Lfttle Chance of an Early Adjournment.
 WASHINGTON, March 16-Business in the Senate this week promises to be brisk and in- l teresting. After the morning hour to~mor- row the joint resolution appropriating $25.- GOO for the extirpation of the foot and mouth ! disease in Kansas will come up for considera- l ton. It is hardly probable that the resolu- tion will pass in the form reported Objec- tions were made on Friday to limiting the expenditures of money to Kansas. MT. Bayard gave notice that he would offer an amendment tomorrow. AS he expressed his disapproval of any measure which bears the semblance of an invasion of State authority, it is presumed his amendment will look more to determining the nature of the cattle scourge in the State than to clothing the commissioner of agriculture with the extra ordinary powers proposed. The debate, judging from what took place on Friday, will undoubtedly take wide range. MT. Hoar wants the matter postponed until after the special meeting of the Kansas legislature call ed to consider the subject. MT. Miller, of New York, who has charge of the pleuro- pneumonia bill, is anxious that the resolution should be disposed of before action is taken on that general measure. He gives his req sons the fact that it will be months before the pleuro-pneumonia bill can go into effect and that an immediate appropriation is necessary to prevent the spread of the disease raging in Kansas. It may take all day to dispose of the joint resolution. Mr. Blair will then claim the right of way for his bill giving temporary aid to common schools, which has precedence of the special orders. On Wednesday Mir. Hoar's bill to establish uniform system of bankruptcy is the special order. It may not be reached, however, and as it bids fair when once before the Senate to occupy the time of that body for week or two, will probably give way to Mir. Miller's bill on pleuro- pneumonia, which is likely to lead to protrscted discussion of the right of the federal government to assume police powers in the States as contemplated by the bill.
 To morrow in the House after the call of States the committees will be called, the call commencing where it stopped month ago with the Committee on Claims. Each will be entitled to make one motion to sus- pend the rules for any purpose desiP mated 1 by a vote of the committee. MT. Springer l has motion to make in connection with the l Star route investigation and Mir. Beach from | the Committee on Public Health in relation to the adulteration of articles O. food l MT. Singleton of Missouri chairman l ho Tiih ruiIl | his efforts to fix day early in April for the consideration of the bill for new library building which has already passed ! the Senate. The Indian appropriation bill will be reported to the House on Monday ] and may or may not take precedence of the agricultural appropriation bill. The ! vhiskey men talk of another effort to take up 1 the bond extension bill and action on MT. Morrison's bill may be precipitated upon the | House before the close of the week. The l free trade men talk loudly of a caucus to l draeoon the party into support of this meas ure but there are too many Democrats who will not attend or be governed by 8 l caucus. held for that purpose to make 1t
 agreeable for the free traders to lock
 horns with them. Besides this it has not l been settled whether Mir. Morrison, although l he has the confidence of the Speaker, or MT. l Randall is the leader of the Democratic side. 1 The former has unquestionably the most
 
 opponents thus far has come out second | best There is 8 stronger feeling between the two factions than either leader Is willing to admit. It is now believed that under | whatever circumstances the Morrison tariff
 bill comes before the House it will be dis posed of in short order. It is probable that
 the Indian and agricultural appropriation
 bills, one or both, will occupy most of the
 time of the House this week after the postofice
 bill is disposed of. This latter measure is
 not yet of the board, but is sufficiently ad-
 vanced in Committee of the Whole to insure it's passage on Tuesday. There are now on
 the calendar of the Committee of the Whole
 House on the state of Union ninety bills,
 each involving an appropriation of money
 exclusive of the general appropriation bills,
 four! cen in number, and not one yet finally
 disposed of On the House calendar there l are sixty-eight. These do not involve appro-
 priatioMs, but are matters of general leglsia-
 tion; some of them are of an important l character Besides these there are two hun-
 dred and seventy private bills to be disposed | of or go over to the end of the Congress
 and then die, only to be resorrected in
 the Forty ninth Congress. As remarked by
 a member few days since, ''the claimant
 may die, but the claim is immortal" Each
 call of committees to which under the rules 1 one hour.is devoted each morning swells
 these several calendars. In addition to these
 calendar measures there are nearly 8 hun
 area DllIs On snS opoaAeHs tap1o IHab AaFs
 passed the Senate and been sent to the
 House which have not even been referred to
 committees for consideration. The reports
 from the Committee on Elections on con | tested election cases will soon be coming in They will be numerous and being questions of high privilege can be called up at ep! time Each one of these contested cases is likely to occupy the time of tht House fer at least one day. With these fact in view the early adjournment of Congress promised at the beginning of the session doe not seem probable.
 ! A Voice From COngress-Hon. John T
 Wait Looks Over the POtf1cal Field , Senator HawleY His Choice For PG esi