St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-23
The Congressional Work Shop
to Close About a Month
Hence.
Most Of the Appropriation
Bills Well on Their Way
to Benjamin.
The Work Much Farther I'd
Vanced Than in the Fifty
First Congress.
Frederick Bancroft Takes a
! Shot ct the Secretary
OF State.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-Ine senate
has made such rapid progress with the
regular annual appropriation bills that
but two of these measures which have
been sent to it by the house await the
actian of the senate. One of them-the
pension appropriation bills purposely
withheld in committee, and the other
the diplomatic and CONSULATE is ex-
pected, will be reported to the senate
and passed this week The unfinished
business is the bill to punish the viola
ton of the treaty rights of aliens, but
the consideration of this measure may
be further delayed by the calling up OF
one of the pending special orders.
the silk culture bill, the bill
to fix the compensation Of
United States district attorneys and
the revenue marine transfer bill.
1t is impossible to predict the order in
which these measures will be taken up,
dependent as it is on personal con-
yenience of senators and legislative
opportunities, but there is strong
probability that the friends of the rev.
enue IN arine trasfer bill will be able to
get it before the senate early in the
week. Resort will also doubtless be
had to the calendar for one or more
days, with the result of adding to the
already large number of senate
Bills Which sleep
In the committee rooms of the house.
The house of representatives will as
semble at Il o'clock tomorrow, with the
sundry civil bill as unfinished business
still pending, to the Encouragement of
the party managers, whose previously
bright hopes Of bring about cOmpar-
atively early adjournment of congress
have been seriously dimmed by the
slow progress Of this Ominous apprOpri-
alton bill. The hour of daily meeting,
however, has been advanced one hour
in the expectation of facilitating the
transaction of business, and an effort
Wlu be made to hasten the progress of
the Sundry civil bill, and to make up
some Of the time lost on that measure
the two appropriation bills, which,
fer two weeks, have been waiting
their turn to enter the hopper of the
national house. These measures are
the fortification and postoffice appro-
priation bills, neither of which, as
rule, consume more than two days,
though in view of the reductions made
in the bills this year, it cannot be safely
predicted that they will get through on
schedule time this season. The pas
sage of these bills, unless MIR. Hatch
succeeds in the fight he will make to an
tagoDize the fortificatinn and postoffice
bills with the anti-optiOn bill with pos
sibly some time given to District of
Columbia matters tomorrow. consti
tuteS the programme OF the majority
for the next week. With the passage
of these appropriation bills, only three
more will remain to be acted on by the
house, VIZ: The legislative, execu-
and the general deficiency approprla-
ton bills. A comparison with the con-
dition of the appropriation bills for the
long session of the fifty-first congress,
shows that at this time in 1890 there
were unpassed by the house the follow
ing: Agricultural, Indian, pOstOfnce.
river and harbOr, sundry civil. and gen
Ieral deficiency appropriation bills,
I Six ira All.
1.-THE exact number that have not yet
spassed the house at this session. The
|Efifty-first congress did not adjourn until
Hate in October. But. iii considering
sthe probabilities as to final adjournment
Iuf the present congress, the fact is to be
borne in mind that the policy of
the present house is to pass the
appropriation bills and adjourn, whereas
ithe purposes of the Republican majority
lin both houses Of the fifty-tirst congress
fincluded the passage of the Mckinley
tariff act, the federal election law and
other party measures, whose cOnsidera
ton took up most of the time in the
spring and summer. the appropriation
bills giving way to them. 1t is also eS-
sential to compare the measures remain
ling unpassed The river and harbor
fbill is passed and the sandry civil bill
soon will be passed; bnt the considera-
ition of these two bills, the longest and
most vexing to the patience of party
managers, had not been begun at
this date in $780, The appro-
priation bills this year are also better
advanced in the house Of representa-
tives by reason of the fact that commit
tee action OH every one OF them, except
the general deficiency bill, is practically
completed. For these reasons all ad-
/ journment of congress early in July is
still entirely feasible. This possibility
is strengthened by the rapidity with
which the senate had acted and is act
ing OF the appropriation bills; but, on
the other hand, much time may yet be
consumed by the necessary conferences
between the two houses regarding SEN
ate amendments to these bills, and on
the naval bill especially prCtracted
contest is extremely probable.