Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-15
COMING WEEK IN CONGRESS.

 Efforts to be Made to Dispose of Sew eral Bills In the Senate This Week Opposition Anticipated Against the Bill to Transfer the Revenue Marine Service From the Treasury to the Navy Department-P1ans of the House. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.-It is expected that Senator Sanders will conclude his speech upon the conference report of the land grant forfeiture bill tomorrow and that the report will then be agreed to. If it is then not too late in the day Senator Sawyer will call up the anti-lottery bill, which has already passed the house. 9th erwise he will ask the senate to dispose of private pension bills on the calendar post poning the anti-lottery bill until Tuesday. So far as known there will be no open op- position to the passage of this bill. Sena- tor Gibson of Louisiana will speak in it's favor and if any opposition develops on the floor Senators Spooner and Casey, the latter of North Dakota, will support the measure.
 It is Senator Sawyers hope that Senator Gibson's speech will be the only one de- uVcTcu. OlOWtuS tue D1ll on the order of business adopted by the re- timber culture act; to establish private land courts and for the relief of the su- preme court and the labor bills. It is hardly probable that all these will be dis posed of this week, but should it prove to be the case the rapid progress will be checked when the bill to transfer the revenue marine service from the treasury to the navy department, the next on the program, is reached. This bill has been discussed ;ls ed nun number of times dur ton has always prevented vote. So far as known the opponents of the measure are still equally as determined that it shall not pass, and as they include some of the best tacticians on both sides of the senate a long debate may be anticipat- ed. An hour every day under an order adopted by the senate last week will be devoted to the consideration of bills on the calendar to which no objection is made.
 The opposition shown by the minority in the house to the consideration of the Langston-V -Venable election case has had the effect more strongly to determine the republican leaders that the house shall act upon the case as well as upon the Miller Elliott case. It has been urged upon absent republican members that the party could hardly afford to abandon the colored repub- ican contestants after seating a number of white republican members. A large number of telegrams have been sent to the absentees requesting their attendance here, and if quorum is obtained by Monday or Tuesday it is the intention to dispose of the two election cases without argument beyond the forty minutes talk allowed by the rules in each case after the previous question is ordered After that will follow the tariff bill. Already Chairman Mckinley has pre- pared the way for speedy action upon the bill by his resolution by last nights caucus providing for the suspen- sion of the ordinary rules and considera- tion of the bill by the house itself instead of in committee of the whole. The time to be allotted to it's consideration was left blank in the resolution, to be filled in by the committee on rules. It is the general impression that not more than two or three days at the most will be consumed, and that if Q quorum is in attendance the tariff bill will go to conference before the end of the present week