The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-05-16
SENATE AND HOUSE.
The Work Laid Out for the Com
ing Week,
THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL

Will Occupy the Attention of the
House Early in the Week, TO be
Followed by the River and Har-
Dor Bill-Littlc Room for Special
Orders.
EWAsHINGToN, May 16.-Pressing ques-
tiuns of revenues and expenditures are
likely to occupy the attention of the
senate all the time of the coming week
that can be devoted to legislation. Sen
ator Barbours funeral will prevent the
transaction Of any business until to-
morrow.
The discussion of the $12 ,000, 900 item
added by the senate committee to the
naval appropriation bill, for harbor de-
Tense monitor, four light gunboats and
six torpedo boats, will be resumed as
the first business. That bill disposed of,
the S22,7d0 900 river and harbor bill will
follow. These two measures and the
considerations of revenue and increased
taxation which they involve will prob
ably occupy the balance of the week and
leave little room for special orders.
To Abolish Compuisory.Pilota
These are, first, bill abolishing COM
pulsory state pilotage, measure in
which Mr.. Frye, chairman of the COM
mittee on commerce, takes strong in
terest, which he has unsuccessfully tried
TO push through the last three congresses
and which he now desires the senate to
take action upon, as it is his purpose to
leave the city on private business as soon
as it is disposed of. Next comes the
foreign relations bill to give United
States courts jurisdiction Of violations
of the treaty rights of aliens, which
runs counter to the state rights theories
of some of the senators, and will be OF
posed on that ground.
After that Mr. George, of Mississippi,
has notice on the paper of an inten-
ton to call up n bill appropriating $685.
GOO for the establishment of five expert
mental silk culture stations-a measure
which has slim chance of passing un-
der present conditions Last on the list
is the bill reported from the judiciary
committee by Mr.. Vest, of Missouri, re-
vising and readjusting the compensa-
tiOn Of all the district attorneys of the
United States, an important measure
which can scarcely get through at this
advanced stage of the session.
The Week Devoted o Appropriations
If the present intentions of the chair
man of the committee on appropriations
are carried out the house this week will
devote all its time to the consideration
of appropriation bills. Mr.. Holman
said that in view of the funeral of the
late Speaker Barbour, at O'Clock today,
he did not expect the house to transact
any business of importance before to-
morrow. Then he would ask the house
to resume consideration of the sundry
civil bill, continuing from day to day
until a conclusion is reached. Then he
would bring up the post Office and forti-
cations bill in the order named. 1t was
possible, he said, but not probable that
all three of them would be disposed of
in the house before the week ends.
Before the consideration of the sundry
civil bill has proceeded very far Mr..
Livingston tDem.), of Georgia, will pro-
pose an amendment to the section cover
ing the appropriations for the mints,
providing for the free coinage of silver.
This amendment Mr.. Bland offered one
day last week, but afterwards withdrew
| il for the reason that it then met the
criticism that it did not pertain to the
subject under discussion. There is but
little likelihood of general silver de-
baie being precipitated thereby, as the
amendment will doubtless be met by a
point of order and be rejected on the
ground that it is not gcrmane to the
measure.
When the sundry civil bill has been
disposed of Mr., Hatch will endeavor to
bring up the anti-option bill, but us
Mr.. Holman expects the house to sup
port him in his demand for considera-
tion of the postoilice appropriation bill.
The resolution to expunge one of the
speeches of Representative Walker
/ (Rcp), of Massachusetts, because of al
legged supplementary, not to say un-
complimentary expressions regarding
his mugwump colleagues from that
state is the special order for today, but
it will probably fail to come up for want
of time; what will become of it in that
case cannot be definitely stated. An.
other postponement is the most likely
solution.
( A Giif from The Car.