Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-03
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

| A Do Nothing COngress-The Poor Show l ing Made For The SessiOn-COnditfon of l The Business Before Both Houses An | Unpleasant Subject For The Taxpay- |
 | WASHINGTON, March 2.-This is 8 lazy l Congress is the current and common expres- sion frequently heard here during the past few weeks. Congress has now been in session three months, the full term of it's second season, and has one general appro
 priation bill (west Point) in the Senate, one 1 (naval) in Committee of the Whole and two
 (postofice and agricultural on the calendar,
 with ten that have not yet left the com mittees. The results of the Iabors of the House up to the present time are the passage | of forty-one bills Including seventeen pen sion bills passed at Friday nights session and sixteen joint resolutions which have been sent to the Senate. Only five bills and nine | joint resolutions have been passed by the Senate and signed by the President and are now laws. There are now three bills that have got the right of way iu the House as special orders, not, however, to interfere with revenue or appropriation bills or reports from the Committee on Public Lands. An effort will be made by Governor Singleton, of Mississippi, tomorrow to sus- pend the rules and add the Senate bill for the erection of congressional library build ing to the list of special orders. The ord CTS already made give precedence to, first, the Mexican veteran pension bill; second, the bill to remove burdens on the merchant ma rine, &c; third, the interstate commerc @ off iG tn1 f0 available time of the House for a week after allowing for the time occupied on Monday by the call of States, suspension of the rules etc, private bills on Fridays, privileged re- ports, personal explanations, requests for unanimous consent and call of committees in the morning hour. The naval appropriation bill may be disposed of Tuesday and notice has been given that after the naval bill is out of the way the postoffice appropriation bill will be brought forward and o,.o it through during the week So that outside of these there is likely to be but little more done, and that little merely the pas sage of minor bills by unanimous content. The Chalmers Manning contest is the only election case yet acted upon and that having been decided only on it's prima facle aspect | is still before the committee on the same | footing as any other and is yet to be decided on it's merits The Garrison Mayo (First Virgina) case has be reported op as to it's prima faoie character, and as that leaves MT May in his seat it is not likely to be called until the committee are ready to report on the merits May oreceiVed his certificate on a bare majority of one vote and 1t is quite probable | the committee will be able to find at least two votes that were illegally cast He Is 8 read juster There is no unfinished business or special order on the Senate calendar for the week At 2 o'clock to morrow orations on the death of Representative Haskell will be- gin. The bill to grant to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad right of way through to the Indian territory may be reached before that hour. It is understood here that there is considerable opposition to the measure and it undoubtedly will go over as unfinished business.