St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-06

intention 10 hght hard Tor the senate
amendment. There is plenty of work
on the house calendar to occupy the at
tention of that body while the senate is
talking tariff, and there will be
NO EXCUSE FOR IDLENESS.
The house calendar fills los pages.
There is an average of about IA bills on
each page, making 1,500 bills awaiting
action. There have been introduced
In the house at this session 11,09S bills
and ITO joint resolutions-a total OF H.
10S, against 10, 191 at this period in the
last congress-. Of these there have been
reported from committees and placed
on the calendar 3,2O6, against 3,447 at
this stage in the last congress. In the
senate there have been introduced 3,41S
bills and 100 joint resolutions, total OF
3,5I9, against 1927 at this time in the
last congress. Of these there have
been 1874 written reports and between
300 and 400 verbal reports-in all about
2,400 bills out of the 3,519 have been re-
ported to the senate, against 1851 in the
i'll the committee work of the fiftieth,
over that of the forth-ninth congress-.
The committee work in this house, 1t
will be seen, is as far below that in the
last congress.
THE INCREASE HAS BEEN
in the senate committees during this
year over that of two years ago. Mem
bers of the house say that large num-
Der of bills will be passed while the SEN
ate is discussing the tariff. Inasmuch
as the senate calendar consists OF but
twenty-fOur pages, the upper branch OF
congress will be enabled to clear up
much of the work the house will do
after the senate has passed its tariff
bill, providing some time elapses after
the senate sends its tariff bill to the
house and before adjournment.
An important army measure which is
likely to become law during the re-
naming days of the present session is
the twenty years service promotion
bill. 1t has passed the house and is
now on the senate calendar, having re-
ceived favorable recommendation,
with an amendment from the senate
committee. 1t has been reached in its
regular order on several occasions, bur
each time went over for one cause or
another. The bill in its present shape
is not entirely popular, but officers hope
that it will pass the senate in some
shape, so that the differences can be
satisfactorily
ADJUSTED IN CONFERENCE.
The principal objection to the bill
mpintain that it is unfair, as proposed
in the bill, to give officers of the staff
both rank and pay, and officers of the
line only pay. To overcome these OBJ
jections it is probable that the commit
tee will favor modification of the bill
giving pay, without rank, of the next
highest grade, to all officers. both line
and staff, who have served continu-
ouSly in one grade for twenty years.
Senator Blair has about given up all
hopes of having his educational bill re-
ported to the house, at least during the
present session of congress. He does
not desire to criticise the house COM
mittee harshly, he says, for having
pigeonholed the bill, but thinks at the
same time it has acted very unwisely.
A majority of the members of the house
committee, as is well known, are op-
posed to the bill on the ground that it is
unconstitutional, and that its passage
would mean the extension of federal
jurisdiction over millions which belong
properly to the states. Senator Blair
says he will present the bill in the Fifty
first congress-, and continue to urge il
with the same persistency as long as he
remains in the senate.