Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-11-14
THE CLOSING SESSION
Important Work Yet Remains
 for the sgd Congress.
WAsHBURN ANTl-oPTloN BILL

It is the FIrst Special Order for the Sem
 ate-The Free Coinage BnI-Appropri'
 ations for the Current Year Likely t"
 Evoke Little Discussion.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-On Monday, Dec. 5, three weeks from to-day, the 52d Congress will meet in fiual session. IT. the interest which has centred around the probable makeup and action of tn, 53d Congress, sight has been lost for the time of the important work yet remain ing uncompleted on the calendar of the 52d Congress.
 One of the first matters to be brought before the Senate will be the Washburn Anti Option bill, which has already passed the House, and which has shown that it has clear majority in favor of its passage in the Senate.
 The title of the bill is "H. H. 7945, an Act defining Options and 'Futures,' i'm posing special taxes on dealers therein, and requiring such persons engaged in selling certain products to obtain license, and for other purposes"
 Its provisions are so sweeping that they would practically, it is charged, shut up the Chicago wheat pit, the New Orleans Cotton exchange, and other institutions of like character. A strong opposition was developed to the bill in the Senate, but there was 8 still stronger movement | in it's favor.
 MT. Washburn, of Minnesota, who had | the bill in charge, only consented to lay | it aside so as to allow of an adjournment of Congress when August had far ad- l vanced, on condition that iU should be | made the first special order for the next | session, and should be fought out to | finish.
 | This accordingly has to be done. The | Senate has number of other important l House bills on its calendar. These have l slumbered hitherto in the Committee on l Finance, but determined effort will be | made to bring them out and to send them l up to the President for his action. The l House may possibly be given an oppOr- tunity to reconsider it's action and to take | up the Senate's Free Coinage of Silver | bill. The silver men will try to bring | this about.
 l The appropriations for the current | year will probably evoke little discussion except in one important respect. Secre- tary of the Treasury Foster, to whom the sent prior to the meeting of Congress, has already intimated informally that those estimates will simply be a duplica- ton of the appropriations which Congress has already agreed to be necessary for this year, and that no recommendations will be made for any increases of expenditure or of force.
 The one exception upon which lively discussion may be looked for, is that part | of the Sundry Civil bill which makes ap | propriation for expenses of United State courts, commissioners, marshals ant | deputy marshals. MT. Allison stated t.
 the Senate, when reporting the Sundry | Civil bill for this year, as agreed upon il
 conference, that the reductions made b.
 the House would inevitably result in
 deficiency.
 The Senate wished to appropriate 5000,
 900 for Fees and expenses of United
 States marshals and deputies. The House
 cut the amount down to $675,0 ,0O0 ant
 stuck to that figure. The Senate gay
 $145, 900 for fees of United States com
 missioners; the House knocked of
 $45, ,0OO. The Senate appropriated $225,
 900 for fees of clerks, etc.; the House re
 duced the amount to $175, 00O Any at
 tempt to appropriate for deficiencie under these heads will assuredly precipi
 tate a debate which will bring up tn
 whole question of the election laws an'
 their enforcement.
 In the absence of MT. All son in Europ
 attending to his duties as member of tn
 International Monetary Conference Mir | Hale of Maine will be acting charima
 of the Senate Committee on Appropria l tiODs