The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-01-30
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
The Work Cut Out for Congress and Tire
Time There Is to Do 1t Ina Very GoOd
Prospect For an Extra Session-what Has
Thus Far Been Accomplished.
WASHINGTON, D. c., January 1s.
The Senate has drawn its parallel line on
the Interstate commerce bill, and is now
=, prepared to range it alongside the SINH
lar line drawn by the House. The day is
| fixed for eulogies on the late Senator An
thony. Previous to carrying out this or
der or on tomorrow the latest, the mo-
ton will be made to substitute the Sem
ate's bill for all the provisions of the
Reagan House bill, after the enacting
clause. The decisive majorities by which
the Senate has voted down some of the
leading provisions of the Reagan bill,
which Mr.. Slater, Mr.. Vance and others
sought to engraft on the Senate measure
leave no doubt that this mo.
ton will eventually prevail, though
probably more talk will be had before &C.
ton is taken. The Senate will then send
to the House bill which differs so wide
ly from the House enactment on the same
subject that 1t is preposterous to expect
the House to agree to 1t and the House
will insist upon a bill, the leading pro-
visions of which have been negatived In
the Senate by very nearly two-thirds
vote. Thus another lesson will be given
in the noble art of chow not to do it."
The Senate conferees on the bill for
feiting the lands granted to the Oregon
Central Railroad appointed Saturday,
will also be in position in few days to
give another lesson on the same subject;
and every Indication points to still
further exemplification of the same great
science of doing nothing in respect to the
Nicaragua and Spanish treaties
An effort will probably be made in the
House to go on with the Indian appro-
priation bill after the call of States, to-
day, which will be resisted in the inter-
est of those committees having the right
to move to suspend the rules and pass
upon any proposition they may present.
The call under this order rests with the
| Committee on Foreign Affairs, which had
intended to move the passage of the
French spoilation bill, but that measure
having been disposed of, they are at
liberty to present another bill.
The Military Committee follows, and
if the suspension order prevails, may call
up the original Grant retirement bill
passed by the Senate last session.
The Naval Committee is next on the
list, but has nothing of general interest
to offer.
The Post-ofiice Committee is fourth,
and if reached, Mr.. Money will ask the
House to pass, under suspension of the
rules, the bill prepared by that commit
tee providing for the leasing of telegraph
lines by the Government, for the trans
mission of postal telegraph business.
The Public Lands and Indian Affairs
committees follow, but are not likely to
be reached before the days session
closes.
Tuesday, after 2 p. M, has been as
signed for eulogies on the late j. Ill.
Evins, of South Carolina.
Wednesday and Thursday are likely to
be occupied with the Indian appropria-
ton bill, and any spare time there may be
will be used in a conflict between the
several special orders for precedence.
Mr.. Willis (Of Kentucky, chairman of
the River and Harbor Committee, hopes
to get that bill up Saturday or early next
week. 1t is hardly probable that other
than the Indian of the appropriation
bills will be considered this week. An
agreement upon the six months navy bill
IS expected to be reached when the con-
ferees hold a meeting.
of the fourteen general appropriation
bills for the next fiscal year, not one has
vet gone to the President for his sigma
ture. The only regular appropriation bill
which has yet reached the Senate-the
pension BILLS tied up in committee,
pending an attempt to pass through the
Senate as separate measure, the legls-
lative provisions, which the House has
4 inserted in the bill, and which the Sen
ate, by its rules, is prohibited from con-
sidering in the bill itself.
There are thirty-seven working days of
the session remaining. Of these under
the rules five Mondays will be devoted to
the introduction of bills, motions to sus-
pend, and to the District of Columbia
five Fridays to private bills, two days,
January 10th and Goth to eulogies, Feb
ruary 18th to counting the electoral votes,
and February 2lst to the Washington
MOnuneuI ccTeIOHieS, HldkinS u tOtdl Vi
IA. To these add the last six days of
the session, when motions to suspend
the rules are in order, and it will be seen
that all but seventeen of the remaining
days of Congress are pre-empted. Be
sides the eleven remaining appropriation
bills, there are ON the calendar of the
House over three hundred bills for gen.
eral legislation, and five hundred private
bills, in addition to nearly three hundred
Senate bills ON the Speakers table, that
have not even been referred to commit
tees. 1t looks every day more like an
extra session, the protestatiOns of Sena-
tor; and members, to the contrary, not
withstanding.
The following figures will give an indi-
cation of how the time of the House and
Senate has heep spent since the begin
ming of the session. The House had up
to Friday night been in session $50 hours
and six minutes, and had furnished ma
terial for / 1878 columns of the Congress
sional Record; while the Senate had been
in session IO2 hours and furnished but
| 500 columns for the Record.
Accidentally Shot Himself.
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