St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-04
READY TO ADJOURN.
Last Expiring Clasps Of the
Fifty-First Congressional
Session.
Idle Spectators Throng the
Galleries to Be in at the
Death.
The President DiselaimS an
Intention Of Calling an
Extra Session.
The House Disagrees on the
Diplomatic and Consular
Bill.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-This con-
gress is having quite remarkable
closing. There is an air of eXtraor di-
nary calmneSs about the proceedings
which consume the closing twenty-four
hours of the congress, and they are al
most devoid of interest. Spectators
throng the galleries, as they always do
at the close of the session, but thus far
there has been but very little in the
way of exciting scenes to reward their
patience. There is the usual, perhaps
more than the usual, rush in the lobbi es
by those who are eager to press through
measures they are retained to advocate,
The "lobby'' is very active, and is in a
measure successful, though all that was
expected i'll the way of getting little
measures through" will not be accom-
plished.- The work done to-day was
chiefly in the conference committees,
the two houses merely acting on the re-
ports. 1t was dull routine. The differ
enceS between
The Two Houses
over most of the bills were of a charac-
ter easy to dispose of. and the work
went on quite rapidly. The friends of
the copyright bill are working hard to
nave the Sherman amendment given up
by the senate, as they feel that if the
senate does not recede the bill will fail.
The result of the struggle to put mis-
cellaneOuS items on the apprOpria ton
bills is still in doubt. Therefore, it is
not possible at this time to tell Just what
the aggregate of the appropriations for
the session will be. These miscellane-
GUS items mount up enormously during
the rush of the closing hours of the SeS-
sion. AT the close of the last session a
very liberaF' estimate was made by the
committees. fixing the sum of those
Items at 50, 00U,0 600, bat it turned out tha-
the aggregate was $l0.000.000. At tn is
time 1t is just as uncertain how mu eh
these items will add to the regular def
mite appropriations. 1t is safe to say,
however. that the aggregate of all the
appropriations will exceed 1925, ,OOO, 900
possibly it will be considerably mores
The president said to caller yesterday
that the report that he intended to send
III special message urging the passage
of the
Federal Elections Bill
was not true. 1t would be, he said.
both SupertluOuS and useless, it being
too late to accomplish anything in that
direction. The president said to the
same gentleman that he had no idea
that an extra session of congress would
be rendered necessary. AS to the
talked-of special session of the senate,
the president said he had no intention
of calling one. There was, he said,
nothing III the present outlook of pun
lie business which would require it. OF
course, he added, something of suffi-
Gent Importance to neceSSitate one
might unexpectedly come up, but so far
as he could see there would be no spe-
cial session of the senate. The presi-
dent then told his caller he was going
on shooting trip about a week after
the adjournment of congress, to be gone
a few days.