St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-07
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS.
Frye Thinks the River Bill the
Best Ever Prepared.

Frye Thinks the River Bill the
Best Ever Prepared.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-Senator Frye's
shipping bills, upon which vote was
not taken last Thursday because of the
lack of quorum, are the unfinished
business on the senate calendar for to-
morrow. and he hopes to have them dis
posed OF without further delay. He
will then ask to have the river and har-
Dor bill taken up. This bill, with the
amendments which the committee on
commerce has authorized Mr.. Frye
to offer, carries total ap-
preparation of about S23,000,000,
bill of the kind ever prepared. Two
days, he thinks, will be sufficient for it's
consideration. Senator Morrill,, chair
man of the finance committee, will en-
deaYor to have the tariff bill made the
order of business after the shipping bills
are out of the way. The indications,
however, are that the river and harbor
bill will be first taken up. The tariff
bill, it is understood, will be in charge
of Senator Aldrlch. If the river and
harbor bill gets the right of way it is
more than probable that the tariff bill
will not be begun in earnest until next
week, as there are three appropriation
bills to come before the senate this
week, one of which-the sundry civil
is likely to precipitate debate of some
length. 1t will be reported Tuesday or
Wednesday. Among its provisions, as
it passed the house, is an appropriation
of S72O,OOO for the geological and
irrigation surveys to be expend
ed under the direction of Di-
rector j. W. Powell, and this will
be antagoniZed by Senator Stewart and
possibly by other Western senators,
who want the irrigation survey to be
conducted by the agricultural depart
ment. The other two appropriation
bills are the Indian and consular and
diplomotic. These exhaust the list of
regular appropriation bills except the
deficiency bill, which will not come be-
fore the senate until near the close of
the session. The report of the confer
ence committee on the silver bill, which
is a privileged matter, is likely to be
presented before the close of the week,
and it will probably give rise to a de-
bate of some length. The election bill
will be received from the house proba-
bly, tomorrow and be referred to the
committee on privileges and elections.
A caucus of Republican senators
is expected some time this week,
at which it will be decided
whether or not to take up the bill at
this session. The proceedings in the
house this week promise TO be COM
paratively uninteresting and quiet.
Probably the general deficiency appro-
priation bill-the last of the appropria-
ton bilIs-will be reported and acted
upon before the week is ended. The
elections committee is desirouS Of Sc
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tested election cases MILLER VS.. Elliot
of South Carolina, and Langston VS.
Venable, of Virglnia), which have been
for some time on the calendars. In ad
dition to these cases the friends of the
bankruptcy bill expect to be able to get
that measure before the house, while
there are indications that during the
week the conferrees On the silver bill
will have adjusted their differences an(
measure which it will be called upon tx
consider