Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-01

Sessions Will Be Few and Far Between
 and Little Business Done This Week.
 Weather Crop BuIletin-FavoraD1e In-
 dications Longest Session Record.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-There will be pot pourri of business in the two houses of con- gressnduring the week, and it will come up In such a manner as to make a forecaSting of 1t impossible It is not expected that either house will remain in session more than about half of the time, the house of representatives being in mood to adjourn from day to day after short morning hour.
 The senate will, after some miscellaneous business, proceed with the consideration of the conference report the general de ficiency 1in. Political debate will develop from time to time. The tariff bill may excite some observations during the week in the senate.
 LONGEST SESSION ON REtJRD
 When the two houses were called to order at 12 o'clock to-day the session had become the longest, by twenty four hours in Ameri- can history. The longest preceding session was that of 1850, the year of the Missouri compromise, which was adjourned at noon of Sept. 50. Constructively, the session of 1868, following the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, was longer the adjournment sine die having taken place Nov 10, but, as a matter of fact, congress- took q six weeks recess from July P and never afterward had quorum or attempted to transact any business.
 Both sides have pretty we'll made up their minds that there will be no adjournment of the present session of congress, but merely recess from Oct. ? to Nov, I2. The Demo erats in the house have stopped talking about adjournment, and will probably ad- 1ourn for three days at time while waiting the movements of the senate Senators Ali son and Aldrich favor going on with the tariff bill, and will probably hold their Re publican associates to this programme If resolution for ad djournment should come over from the house it might get ma jority vote ill the senate, but it will not come A single objector could raise the point of no quorum on resolution fixing a day for adjournment Ill the house, and an objector will always be on hand
 THE REPUBLICAN TARIFF BILL
 According to the latest programme the Re publican tariff bill will be presented to the senate on Thursday of this week The report of the Republican members of the finance committee will be completed at that time, but it will not probably be made public until the next C.ly. Accompanying it will be the report of the Democratic minority It was at first intended to make both the tariff bill and the report public simultaneously, but this plan will be abandoned in view of the fact that their great length will prevent more than brief abstract of each from being printed in the newspapers, whereas if given out on different days a much fuller syncDsis can be published.
 FAVORABLE CROP INDICATIONS
 The weather crop bulletin for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 29, says: The weather during the week was generally favorable for oil RriJoCr iy, all England, where heavy rains were reported as unfavorable. Throughout the cotton belt reports indicate that the weather during the week has improved the condition of the cot ton crop. In Louisiana the conditions were favorable for cane and the harvesting of rice. and generally throughout the gulf states the weather was favorable for cotton picking and the seeding of wheat. Light frosts oc- cured Ill the northern portion of the gulf states, over the tobacco regions of Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, and in the middle Atlantic and New England states, which will probably result in some damage to the growing crops but warnings of these frosts were issued to the threatened sections in time to enable those receiving them to secure the greater portion of the tobacco crop not previously cut
 BOLD DENUNCIATIoN
 The Sunday Capital says:
 ITO tho people of Washington the worst result of the scandal in regard to the con- struction of the tunnel is the certain post ponement of the day when water will be let into the new reservoir. Year after year the householders on the high levels of the c.ty have been promised early relief from fife scarcity of water. Year after year they have been disappointed.
 ''The law does not provide any adeuuate punishment for those who have perpetrated such wrong upon people as has been prac- ticed from beginning to end in the water works extension for the city of Washington. It has been marked by ignorance and iobbery throughout
 "It has been faulty in plan, ignorant in esti- mate of cost, negligent ill specifications. inn beetle in inspection and oxtravagant in cost. There ought to be a trial of number of Der sons in the civil courts, and the war depart- ment ought to order a court martial wher- ever needed if the reputation of the corps of engineers is to be naintained,"
 Tho Post this morning prints number of letters and statements setting forth that the contract for the aqueduct tunnel was awarded by Secretary Lincoln in October 1885, to Beckwith & Quackenbush at $s2, POO more than the lowest bidder for the work; and that Secretary Lincoln was governed ill his decision by the report of Maj. Lydecksr, who was then engineer commissioner from the dis trict and who is now in general charge of the construction of the tunnel
 An Old Story with a New Sequel
 ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1.-An Enoch Arden case with new finale has occurred in Bevier. Mo. Years ago H. c. Cooley lived in Illinois with his younp wife Times heca,pa h ,.,l ,,5