St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-18
Senator Washburn Suspicious
!. His Colleagues Aren't
Toting" Fair.
The Worlds Fair Boomerang
Will Claim Attention
in the House,
But Congress Will Probably
Adjourn in the Next
Twenty Days.


rapidly approaching the end of the ses-
sion, and. in the opinion of the house
leaders, this week will probably witness
the closing scenes. On the other hand,
however, the opinion prevails among
the minority that adjournment will not
be reached before the first of August.
The proceedings in the house this week
will be confined largely to the consider
alton of appropriation bills. Tomorrow
is suspension day. and several members
are expecting glance of recognition
from the speaker to enable them to pass
special measures the bill to
transfer the revenue marine service
from the treasury to the navy depart
ment is one of the measures slated for
consideration. Tuesday OF 12 o'clock
vote will be taken on the worlds fair
proposition in the sundry civil bill, and
iG is believed final vote on the bill itself
will also occur OH that day. The report
on the investigation of the pension bill
will be called up Tuesday by Mr. Enloe,
who hopes to have a cloture rule re-
ported by the committee Oh rules in
order to force vote on the question of
adopting the maiority's recommends
tlon that Commissioner
Raum Re Dismissed.
The deficiency and the forti6cation ap-
preparation bills are expected to receive
attention during the latter part of the
week. Senator Washburn, of Mime
sofa, remains firm in his belief that there
is set purpose on the part of the lead
ers of the senate to force an ADJOURN
ment just as soon as the last appropria-
ton bill has been fully disposed of in
order to prevent action by the senate
on the anti-option bill, which he takes
so much interest in, which has passed
the house and only needs concurrence
by the senate to send it to the president.
He has shown by two test votes that
there is working majority of at
least five in the senate in favor OF
the enactment of some LEGISLATION on
this subject, and he thinks he can get
the bill through without material
amendment If he can only call it up
and make it unfinished business. His
chief difficulty lies in the fact that so
soon as he starts with the bill an apprO-
priation bill is thrust in the road. and
he finds himself facing no thorough
fare. The Minnesota senator believes
the announced intention of Mr. Aid
rich, of Rhode Island, to make set
speech on the tariff for revenue' res
OIutions of Mr.. Hale some time this
week to be part of the same policy of
delay, though the announcement is
that Mr.. Aldrich would make such a
speech as was made by Mr.. Hale when
he called up the resolutions OH the 2Sth
of June, before
The Anti-OptiOn Bill
came to the front. Whether the Mime
sofa senator's suspicious are we'll
founded or not, it is apparent that the
anti-option bill is the key to the situa-
ton so far as early adjournment is
concerned. If that bill can be post
pOned till December an adjournment
between the 1st and 5th of August is
possible, and even probable. If it gets
before the senate as the continuing
order. with all the appropriation bills
out of the way, there is no telling how
long the session may last. Senators
who have voted with Mr.. WASH
burn to take up the bill are
by no means satisfied with it
in its present form. They will
propose. and will probably carry,
amendments which will send it back
for consideration by the house, and an
almost interminable struggle may thus
be brought about. There is really moth
ing else likely to delay congress. The
sundry civil bill even, with the worlds
fair boomerang attached. can probably
be disposed of in conference in ten or
twelve working days; aud the pending
Notifications and deficiency bills are
likely TO occupy still less time. The no.
tice paper of the senate is full. but
tBrutem Fulncn,,
might be written over nearly every sug-
geSteQ topic. Not one of them is likely
to be taken up, except for an hour or
uwo'S talk. No legislation is contem-
plated on any of them for this session
at least. Mr.. Buffers proposition to
transfer the revenue marine from the
treasury department to the navy is the
only outside blow of a national charac-
ter upon which there seems to be a de-
termined intention to push a vote.
That has majority of senators in its
favor. but will encounter a strong op-
position on the floor, being bitterly
antagoniZed by such leaders as Sherman
on the Republican and COckrell OIL the
Democratic, and having the support of
the present secretary of the navy and
the opposition of the secretary of the
treasury. When the senate adjourned
yesterday there were barely thirty
house bills on the senate calendar re-
quiring action outside of little batch
of pension bills just received. All these
could be dispatched in two days, or even
less time. Therefore the prospect of an
early adjournment as concerns the SEN
ate seems to hinge almost entirely upon
the course taken by the anti-optiOn bill.