St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-02
Appropriations and Confer
ence Committees Getting
Business in Shape.
Only Three Money Bills Are
Yet to Go Through the
Senate.
Six Others Are Going Through
the Various Conference
Committees.
Small Likelihood That an Ex-
ira Session Will Be
Necessary.

WASHINGTON. March 1.-The apprO-
priations committee Of the senate has
been at work the whole day getting the
appropriations bills in shape, and as the
committee was not subject to the usual
Interruptions that necessarily occur
during the sittings of congress, good
progress was made. 1t is believed that
the condition of business is such as to
make an extra session very improbable.
Three appropriation bills, viz, the
postoffice, agricultural and general de-
ficiency have not passed the senate. but
the first named was we'll advanced to-
wards final action when the senate ad-
Journed last night, and the other two
will be reported to the senate early to-
morrow morning. The condition of the
other appropriation bills is as follows:
The army, military academy, fOrtifica-
tlonS and naval.ha either become laws
or merely await the presidents sigma
ture to become laws: the consular and
diplomatic, pension. Indian, District of
Columbia, sundry civil and legislative,
executive ana judicial bills are in con-
ference and on some of them the con-
ferrees have made substantial progress
towards agreement. The conferrees on
the District of Columbia bill met to-day
and will probably be able to report
agreement tomorrow morning. The
differences between the two houses on
the sundry civil bill have been gone
over in conference this afternoon and
many points adjusted, SO as to leave
m - Il
pute. The worlds fair paragraph
had not been reached at the close of the
conference this afternoon. On several
of tie appropriation bills in conference
there are radical differences of opinion
between the senate and house, but there
is no reason TO apprehend that one side
or the other will not yield after it has
made stubborn resistance and finds it
necessary to give way in order to avoid
an extra session. The copyright and
postal subsidy bills are in the confer
ence stage of procedure, and vigorous
efforts will be made to enact them into
laws in some shape before final adjourn
ment. The conferrees on the copyright
bill will probably agree on the senate
substitute with some amendments re-
garding Autographs and similar
productions, and the friends of
the subsidy bill, it is un-
derstoOd, will accept the measure
passed by the house on motion of Mr..
Cannon, if 1t be found impracticable to
secure more liberal law. Action on
the unfinished appropriation bills and
conference reports, and on the ques-
tions of copyright and subsidy, will con-
sumo substantially all the time of the
senate between now and noon of
Wednesday. What little time is other
wise consumed will probably be de-
voted to proceedings in executive ses-
sion. The WORK of the house is con-
siderably further advanced than that of
the senate, and, in addition to acting
upon conference reports, it will very
likely give some attention to the Boar
man Impeachment resolution, to the
special report of the Raum investigat-
ing committee and to Sundry minor
matters.
Later-The conferrees on the sundrv
civil appropriation bill met tonight and
were still in session at o'clock. When
the paragraph making the appropriation
for the worlds Columbian commission
was reached each side stated ils position
and the matter was discussed. 1t was
finally passed over temporarily. to be
taken up again when the other disputed
items OF the bill are out of the way.