Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-08
NETTING OF
Prelfmir airy Business and Matters to be
Considered.

Prelfmir airy Business and Matters to be
Considered.
WASHINGTON, December 5.-The second
session of the F~orty-ninth Congess will be-
gin at noon tomorrow. After prayer and
roll cali each House will appoint a COM
mittee to inform the other OF it's readiness
to proceed to business. New members who
are to fill vacancies caused by death and
re sisnation will then be sworn in. Upon
the completion OF formal organization a
Joint committee will wait upon the Presi-
dent to inform that a quorum OF each
House is assembled and that Congress is
ready to receive any communication he
may be pleased to make.
THE PRESIDENTS ANNUAL MESSAGE
will then be received and after its readinga
formal announcement in the senate OF the
death Of Pike aud of the deaths of repre-
s~entatives Beach and Arnot will be made,
follow ed Immediately by adjournment in
respect to the memory to the deceased. A
legislative business session is expected to
begin on Tuesday.
Among unfinished business in the senate
is the vetoed private pension bill, reported
from the Committee on Pensions with the
recommendation that it be passed over the
veto.
The first Of special orders is the Pacific
Railroad funding bill. which has been at
the head of the calendar since last May.
1t is not known whether Mr.. Hoar. who
has it in charge will press it for considera-
ton at once or suffer it to lie over.
Senator PIatt's resolution for the con
sideration of executive nominations in
open session is the special order for We'd
nesday, and it's consideration will be urged
without further delay. With these three
EXCEPTIONS, no measure on the calendar Is
in q position to command the attention OF
the Senate during the week. the remaining
special orders being assigned to days of the
following week.
The calendar contains "O7 bills and res
olutions from which number a majority OF
the body will make it's selection for consid.
Grafton. There is a prospect of an early
agreement by confreres upon the inter
State bill. It is hardly proba-
BILE that any business of consequence will
be transacted in the House of Representa-
tives during the early part of the week. A
report may be presented to the House by
the confreres on the fertilization and ap-
preparation bill which failed Of enactment
last se-sion by reason of the total disa-
greement of the confreres. in which event a
new COUleTeICc Will Ue OIUeTeU. ING Ap-
preparations Committee has made such
progress in the preparation OF the sundry
civil appropriation bill that it is believed
this measure can be reported to the House
in about a week. If the temper of that
body prove favorable the bill can be
taken up for immediate action, and fair
progress made by the end of the week.
Several measures of interest were made.
continuing special orders at the last session
and may be called up at any time if the
House is so disposed. They are the Free
Ship bill, Electoral Count bill. Pacific
Railroad Funding bill. Washington, Da-
kota, Oklohama Territorial Admission
bills, Army Reorganization bill. and sun
dry bills Of minor Importance reported
from committees on Labor, Ways and
Means, Banking and Currency, Agriculture,
and Indian Affairs. Unfinished business
for morning hours if the House decides to
follow the routine is the bill to indemnify
Chinese sufferers by the Rock Springs mas
sacre. Not in order on this calendar is the
bill providing for the construction Of the
Hennepin canal.