Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-18
THE LAWMAKERS.
Programme OF Their Pro-
ceedings This Week.
NO EXTRA SESSION PROBABLE
Mills About TO Bring the Merits OF
His Bill and the Senate Sub
stitute To a Test.


WASHINGTON, February II. - The
present indications point to a week of
business activity in the Senate. Hale
will tomorrow call up the Census bill
with the amendments recommended by
the Committee, and it is also the day
assigned for the presentation to Congress
by Palmer, on behalf of the State of
Michigan, of the bronze statute of Lewis
Case. After weeks hard work the
Sub Committee in charge of the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill have completed
it for submission to the full Committee
tomorrow morning, and probably to the
Senate during the day also. 1t may be
taken up on Tuesday. The Committee
on Amendments make large increase
over the amount appropriated by the
House. Chairman Allison expects that
the entire week after Monday will be
occupied by the consideration of the APP
preparation bills. The Diplomatic and
Consular and the Military Academy
bills have passed both Houses and gone
to the President. The District OF
Columbia, the Forti6cation, the Legisla-
tive and Pensions bills are in conference.
The Naval bill is before the House Com
imittee on Appropriations with Senate
amendments. The Sundry Civil, Army
and Agricultural bills have passed the
House and are before the Senate Com
mittee. The Indian, Postoffice, Def
cheney and River and Harbor bills have
- tho Ho,rco n u1 q otfll
on the calendar.
All these bills will undoubtedly get
through before the session closes except,
possibly, the Deficiency bill. If they
become law in anything like the shape
given them by the Senate, they will go
far towards disposing of one argument
for an extra session OF Congress. The
agreement upon the Direct Tax bill
wipes out about twenty millions OF the
surplus, and the appropriations that
seem to be agreed upon as necessary will
practically absorb the balance for the
coming year, in the opinion of those who
have made study of the bills. In the
past week there has been a decided
change of sentiment on the question and
the opinion now is quite general that an
extra session will not be called before
October, if at all.
The present week promises to be one
of interest in the House, and will proba'
bly, be ushered in by day Of filibusteriug
on Suspension Monday" The Chair.
man of the Committee on Pacific Rail.
roads stands ready to offer, under sus'
pension of the rules, a resolution fixing
an early day for the consideration of the
Union Pacific Funding bill, but he ex-
poets to be met with the same opposi-
tion encountered on similar occasions in
the past.
Il Mills mas signi6ed his intention Of
calling up on Tuesday the resolution re-
ported from the Committee OIL Ways and
Means, declaring that the Senate has no
constitutional right to originate direct
tax bill under the guise of a substitute
for the House bill. This will undoubt-
edly give rise to debate, in which the
constitutional question will be made SUBJ
ordinate to the question of the compare
tive merits of the Mills bill and the Sem
ate substitute. Dependent on the out
come of this debate and the vote which
will follow it, is the question whether or
not the Mills bill will remain upon
the calendar, as the first bar
rier will have been encountered by
the friends of the Cowles bill when
Randall will ask the House to 60 into
Committee of the Whole for considera.
ton of the Revenue bills. Should this
barrier be successfully surmounted, two
more barriers will still have to be re-
moved or overcome before the Cowles
bill can be reached. These are the
measures now known es the Mcmillan
and Breckenridge bills, which have been
from the Committee on Ways
and Means for the purpose of placing in
the hands of that committee weapons
with which to cope with the Committee
on Appropriations. The advocates of
the Cowles bill, however, are confident
of their ability to defeat the Ways and
Means committee in any event.