Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-08
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. 4 SLOW GOING SENATE Moving In Its conserVa-
 tive Way. THE HOUSE IN NO HURRY. But Little Business Yet
 Done. BLAINE TALKS OF CONKLING Telling the Story of Their
 Quarrel.
THE HOUSE IN NO HURRY
THE LABoRs OF CONGRESS.

Be COnservative-TheH House Making
 Haste Slowly As Yet-PrOspects Of A
 Good Weeks Work kAhead-measures
 Pending Nm Both Houses.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. 7.-The Senate has entered upon the business of the session in manner calculated to emphasize the claim that it is ''conservative'' body Five southern States and Nevada were wholly unrepresented on the opening day of the session. No action has been had upon sent in except those of the postmaster and assistant postmaster-general The nomina- tions of McCulloch as Secretary of the Treas ury and of ex-Secretary Gresham as United States circuit judge remain in the hands of the Finance and Judiciary committees re- spectively. In the desire to be 'sconserva- tive" even the usual senatorial courtesy was overlooked and the nomination of ex-Senator Harlan for the position he is now filling as presiding judge of the court of Alabama claims was referred with the rest. The un- finished business on the calendar is a bill for the relief of Michigan firm who paid too much malt tax fourteen years ago and failed to protest and appeal, or they could have re- covered the money without the intervention of Congress. The calling up of the unfnish- ed business is usually the signal for an exec utive session. Senator Cameron's resolution to foster American commerce by a tariff bonus on goods carried in American ships and Senator Hills declaratory resolution in favor of the continued coinage of the silver dollar oooh 1ioh1a tn he pa11od mn ar the rules during the coming week. Both Senators express an inten- tion of pressing them to final action. Meantime MT. McPherson's bill suspending the coinage of the silver dollar and substi- tuting the deposit of silver bullion and with drawing from circulation all United States notes below $5 so as to force into general use the soverproduction of silver dollars now in the vaults of the treasury is in the hands of the Finance committee. As that is headed by Senators Merrill and Sherman, who are believed to favor the measure, and com prises only one senator from the silver States (Jones of Nevada), who is not here, there would seem probability of an early and fa- vorable report on the McPherson bill. MT.
 
 resolution admitting southern Dakota. MT. Vest and others on the Democratic side have already indicated that the measure will again be vigorously fought. MT. Cullom has his interstate commerce bill down for the spe- cial order on Thursday at 3 o'clock, but it will no doubt be headed off by motion for an executive session. A like fate probably awaits MT. Slater's motion to forfeit certain railroad land grants in Oregon.
 One of the thirteen weeks allotted for the closing of the Forty-eighth Congress has passed, and so far as the House is concerned the amount credited on the ledger for busi- ness disposed of is very small. A few private bills to which no objection could be made, and in which no large interests were involved have been pushed through by some energetic members, and MT Adams, of New York, has induced the House to pass the bill allowing notaries public to administer custom house oaths, thereby saving the merchants the ne cessity of going ia person to the custom house, measure of great relief which it's friends say the Senate ought to reach before the close of the session. One appropriation bill, patching out the navy for the last six months of the current year, has passed, but it only settles debt for neglect at the last session for the regular naval ap- propriation bill for the next fiscal year is still one of the fourteen general appropriation bills to be drafted by the com mittee and acted on by the two houses. The coming week promises to be as fruitless of results as the past. The committees are get ting to work and will probably report a number of bills, but they go under the rules to the foot of the respective calendars, sort of legislative purgatory from which but few find sufficient grace to escape. MT. Reagan holds the floor after routine business with his interstate commerce bill. He hopes to get it out of the way by the close of the week. It will probably pass if a vote can be reached. Its danger lies in being talked to death, or, in other words, so many members will desire "to go on record for it,'' something of the kind being demand ed by the western grangeIs, that the House will tire of it and refuse to consider 1t and allow some other special order to come in ahead of it. The Appropriation committee will probably report and the House pass the pension and military academy bills during the week, Neither bill does much more than vote the necessary money to carry out the
 existing law and general debate op them will
 be brief. If the House passes these two bills
 and gets the Reagan bill to the Senate during
 the week it will have made a good record
 The talk of Congress going to the opening oi
 the New Orleans exposition seems to have
 died out and there is but little prospect of 2
 recess for that purpose being taken.