Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-15
THE END IS NEARING .
Congress Will Probably Ad-
 jcurn This Week.
POSITION OF THE TWO BRANCHES

The Senate is Ready and Anxious to Quit
 and Only Awaits the Word from the
 House-Scnators Say They Can Easily be
 Coaxed, but Cannot be Driven.
 WASHINGTON. Oct. 15.-SiEce nearly every man in congress has come to the conclusion that an adjournment Is 10 be had not later than next Saturday, and probably as early as Wednesday, no programme Of proceedings has been agreed upon for the week. The senate is to continue consideration of the sub stitute for the Mills tariff bill, while the house, having no important measures before it~which can be acted upon in the absence of a quorum, will continue to be subject to the whims of objectors. The house is practically not in session, because single objection from any one of the nervous and inpetuous forty or fifty members present stops proceedings and brings about an adjournment for the day
 The only obstacle that has appeared during the past week to an adjournment of congress within the next three four days has been the work of analysis of the Republican tariff bi il, which is being made under the direction of the clerk of the house committee on ways and meana That work will ter minate on Tuesday, and it Is stated the mem bers of the committee now in the city will be willing to propose an ad djOurnnlent as soon as they receive this analysis. The proposition for an adjournment will be acted upon at any time by the senate, inasmuch as there are only five or six speeches on the tariff to be delivered before the election, and these can be completed at any time within forty eight hours notice.
 Republican members of the senate say they can be persuaded to do almost anything in the direction of an adjournment but that they cannot be forced to do anything They would be willing to propose all adjournment were it not for the fact that old custom and the unwritten rules of congress provide that the proposition for an adjournment sine die shall come from the house. They steadily refuse to fix day for adjournment till some step has been taken by the lower house. Three or four members of the committee on | finance were at work i'll their room when a United Press reporter entered and inquired 1 when an adjournment would likely be had. They all answered that everything depended upon the house and that the senate was wait i ing for the customary proposition from the | other body of congress When it was sug- ! gested that possibly the house would not be i willing for an adjournment, it was stated that if this was to be game of freeze out 1 the senate " ould undoubtedly win, because the declaration at any time on the part oi { the senate that there is a want of a quorum would make ad JOurnment impossible under the rules till a quorum was secured and il i the house wanted to be contrary about it ii would only be necessary for a Republican senator to raise the point of mo quorum, and to demand call of the senate when ii would be disclosed that there was less than g quorum in the city.
 It was further suggested that if the house attempted to drive the senate to proposing al adjournment outside of the ordinary rule! and usageS a move would be made whicf would reveal the fact that there was not quorum in the city, after which, by mutua understanding, all of the senators except on. would leave the city. A single senator ol the floor, with the presiding officer in thu
 chair, could keep up the pretcnse of session This would, indeed, be a remarkable condi
 ton of congressional affairs, but it is no
 without the range of possibility, especially i
 the house continues to insist that the senat
 must propose an adjournment. Senator
 Allison, Hawley, Hoar and Aldrich and
 number on the Democratic side of the cham
 Der have expressed opinions to representa-
 tives of The United Press that there will b
 an adjournment between Wednesday ant
 Saturday of this week. notwithstanding tn
 remarkable situation, and they also predic
 that the alternative of eXcusing all senator
 excepting the presiding officer and one t
 remain on the floor to keep up the skeeto
 of the body will be avoided.