The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-18
THH WORK IN CONGRESS.
What is Mapped Out for the
Closing Days ofthe Session,
MEASURES YET TO BE PASSED.
Tho Question ortho constItutionality
of tho Senate TarIG Bill to bO
Raised In the House-The In,
tcrnal Revenue Bill, Sc,

WASHINGTON, ID, ", feO, ll,-tfesent
indications point to week Of business
activity in the Senate, Mr., Hale will
tomorrow call up his census bill, with
amendments recommended by the com.
mlttee, and heretofore outlined in these
dispatches, Tomorrow is also the day
assigned for the presentation to Con-
gress by Senator Palmer, on behalf OF
the State OF Michigan, Of bronze statue
Of Lewis Cass, now standing yelled In
Statuary Hall.
After a weeks hard work the sub
committee in charge Of the sundry Civil
Appropriation bill, have completed it
for submission to the full committee to.
morrow morning, aud probably to the
Senate during the day, so that it may be
taken up Tuesday. The committee
amendments make large increase over
the amount appropriated by the house.
Chairman Allison expects that the en-.
tire week, after Monday, will be ocCu.
pied by the consideration Of approprla.
lion bills.
The diplomatic, and consular, and
military academy bills have passed both
houses and gone to the President for
perfection. Legislative and pension bills
arc in conference, the National bill Is
before the House Committee on Appro-
priations, with Senate amendments;
the sundry civil, army and agricultural
bills have passed the House and are be.
fore the Senate Committee; the Indian,
Post Office, Deficiency and River and
IIarbor bills have been reported to tho
House, and are stillon the calendar, All
these bills will undoubtedly get through
before the session closes, except, posi-.
bly,, the deficiency bill. II they become
laws in anything like the shape giver
them by the Senate, they will go far
towards disposing Of one argument for
an extra session OF Congress this spring.
The agreement upon the direct tax
bill wipes out about SEC, 0,000,0 600 Of the up.
propriations that seem to be agreed upon
as necessary, and will practically absorb
the balance for the coming year, In the
opinion ofthose who have made study
Of the bills.
In the past week there has been a de.
Cided change OF sentiment on the ques-
ton OF an extra session, and among Sen.
ators at least, tho conviction now Is
quite general that an extra session will
not DO called before October, II at all.
One or two reports Of conference com.
mittees upon appropriation bills are
likely to come in this week, where the
differences between the houses are
small, us is tho case on the Pension and
the Legislative Appropriations bills.
The present week promises to be one
OF interest in the house, and will proba'
bly, be ushered In by day Of Glibuster-
ing on Suspension Monday"
Mr.. Cultivate, OF Ohio, chairman Of
the Committee on Pacific Railroads,
stated yesterday that he would offer,
under q suspension OF the rules, reso-
luton fxingan early day for the consid.
Grafton OF the Union Pacific funding bill.
Mr.. Mills, has signtied his intention Of
calling upon Tuesday the resolution re.
ported from the committee on ways and
means, declaring that the Senate has no
constitutional right TO originate a tax
bill, under the guise Of a substitute for
house bill. This will undoubtedly give
rise TO debate, in which the constitu-
tIonal question will be made subordinate
to tho question OF the comparative
merits OF the Mills bill and the Senate
substitute. Dependent on the outcome
Of this debate and the vote which will
follow it, ia the question whether or not
the Mills bill will remain upon the cal.
endar as the first barrier to be oncoun-
tered by the friends OF the Cowle's bill,
when, on Wednesday, or Thursday, Mr..
randall will ask tho house to go into
Committee OF the whole for the consider
alton ofrevenue bills. Should this barrier
remain on the calendar and be success.
fully surmounted, two more obstacles
will have to be removed or overcome be-
fore the Cowles bill can DO reached.
These are the measures known as the
NcMillin and Breckenridge bills, which
have been reported from the Committee
on Ways aud Means for the purpose OF
placing in the hands Of that committee
weapons with which to cope with the
Committee on Appropriations. The ad'
yocates OF the Cowles bill, however, are
confident OF their ability TO defeat the,
Ways and Means Committee in any
event