Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-18
RUSH OF BUSINESS.
Both Houses Try to Obviate the
Need of an Extra Session.
The Greater Part of the Week to be Con-.
sumed in Consideration OF ApprO-
priation Bills.
All These Measures Will Probably be Passed
Before the Session ClOses-status OF the
Tariff Fight.
Congressional Resume.

Congressional Resume.
WASHINGTON, Feb. II THE present
indications point to week of business
activity in the senate. Mr.. Hale will
Tomorrow call up his census bill with the
amendments recommended by the COM
mittee and heretofore outlined in these
dispatches Tomorrow is also the day
assigned for the presentation to congress
by Senator Palmer, on behalf of the
state of Michigan of bronze statue of
Lewis Cas-, now standing yelled in the
statuary hall. His speech will be fol-
lowed byiremarks from Senator Chandler
of New Hampshire, Cass' native state,
and by Senators Pugh and Morgan, who
served in public life with him.
After "a weeks hard work the sub
committee i'll charge of the sundry civil
appropriation have completed it for sub
mission to the full committee tomorrow
morning and probably to the senate dur
ing the day, so it may be taken up Tues
day. The committee amendments make
a large increase over the amount appro-
priated by the house.
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Chairman Allison expects that the en-
tire week after Monday will be occupied
by consideration of appropriation bills.
These measures are fairly well advanced
for this period of the short session. The
diplomatic and consular and military
academy bills have passed both houses
and gone to the president. The District
of Columbia, fortlfication, legislative and
pension bills are in conference. The naval
bill is before the house committee on APP
The sundry civil, army and agricultural
bills have passed the house and are before
the senate committees The Indian, post
office, deficiency and river and harbOr
bills have been reported to the house
and are
STILL on THE CALENDAR.
All these bills will undoubtedly get
through before the session closes except,
possibly the deficiency bill. If they be-
come laws 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 this spring.
The agreement upon the direct tax bill
will put out about S25 900 900, and the
appropriations that seem to be agreed on
as necessary win practically absorb the
balance of the surplus for the coming
GEAR in the opinion of those who have
made a study OF the bills.
In the past week there has been de-
cided change of sentiment on the ques-
ton of an extra session and among the
senators at least the conviction is quite
general that an extra session will not be
called before October,
IF AT ALL.
One or two reports of conference COM
mittees on appropriation bills are likely
to come in this week, where the differ
ences between the houses are small, as is
the case on the pension and legislative
appropriation bills.
The discussion of the Texas election re-
port may continue TO fill up the time that
the appropriation committees cannot oc-
cupy. This exhausts the list of proba-
biIities.
The present week promises to be one of
interest in the house and viii probably be
ushered in bya day of filibustering on
of Ohio, chairman of the
committee on Pacific railroads, stands
ready to offer under suspension
of rules resolution fixing an early day
for consideration of the Union Pacific
funding bill, but he expects TO be met
with the same unrelenting opposition
which he has encountered on similar oc-
casions in the past Messrs. PaysOn of
Illinois, Anderson of Kansas and Ander-
son Of Iowa have in their desks an assert
ment of time worn measures which,
having died of inanimation in the various
committee pigeon holes, VIII be resur-
rected and introduced under the call of
states in order that their reading may
consume the day and prevent Mr.. Outh-
waite
FROM ACCOMPLISHING HIS PURPOSE.
Mr.. Mills has signifed his intention of
calling up, on Tuesday, the resolution
reported from the committee on
ways and means, declaring that
the senate has no constitutional
right to originate a tax bill under
the guise of substitute for
house bill. This will undoubtedly
give rise TO q debate IN which the
constitutional question will be made sub
ordinate TO the question of the compare
tive merits of the Mills bill and the senate
substitute. DEPENDENT on the outcome of
this debate and the vote which viii follow
it, is the question whether or not the
Mills bill will remain upon the calendar
as the first barrier to be encountered by
the friends of
THE CowLEs BILL,
when on Wednesday or Thursday Mr.
Randall will ask the house to 90 into
committee of the whole for the con-
sideration of revenue bills. Should this
barrier remain on the calendar and be
successfully surmOunted two more OBJ
stacles will still have to be removed or
overcome before the Cowles bill can be
reached. These are the measures now
known as the McMillin and Brecken-
ridge bills, which have been
reported 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
theirsability to defeat the ways and means
committee in any event. Any cessation
of these hostiIities will be taken advan-
tage of by the gentlemen in charge of
the remaining appropriation bills to call
them up for action.
Mr. Crisp of Georgia will endeavor to
call up the Sulliyan-FeIton contested
election case during the week, but in
view of the necessity of the immediate
passage of the appropriation bills, the
interest taken IN the internal revenue