The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-23
In the House.

The House of Represent tatives will assem-
bic at IL o'clock tomorrow with the sundry
civil bill as the unfinished business still
pending to the discouragement Of the party
managers, whose previously bright hopes
of bringing about comparatively early
adjournment OF congress have been seri.
ousy dimmed by the slow progress of this
omnibus appropriation bill. The hour of
daily meeting has been advanced
one hour in the expectation Of facilitating
che transaction of business, and an effort
will be made to hasten the progress of the
sundry civil bill and make up some of the
time lost on that measure by more prompt
action than usual on the two appropriation
bills which for two weeks have been wait
ing their turn to enter the hopper of the
national House. These measures are the
Notifications and postoffice appropriation
bills, neither OF which as
rule, consumes more than two days,
though in view of the reductions made this
year it cannot be safely predited that they
will get through on schedule time this ses-
sion. The passage of these bills, unless Mr..
Hatch succeeds in the fight he will make to
antagonize the Notifications and postoffice
bills with the anti-options bill, with possibly
some time given TO the District of Columbia
matters tomorrow, constitutes the pro-
gramne of the majority for the next week.
THE REMAINING BILLS
With the passage Of these appropriation
bills, only three more remain to be acted on
by the House. viz. the legislative, executive
and judicial, the agricultural and the general
deficiency appropriation bills. Comparison
with the appropriation bills for the long
session Of the bifty-frst congress- shows that
at this time Ia 1890 there were unpassed by
the House the following: Agricultural. In
dian, postoffice, river and harbor ,sundry civil
and general deficiency appropriation bills.
six in all, the exact number that have not
yet passed the House at this session. The
Fifty-frst congress did not adjourn until
late in October.
A DIFFERENCE IN THE SITUATION.
But in considering the probabilities as to
the final adjournment of the present con-
gress, the fact is to be borne in mind that
the policy of the present House is to pass
the appropriation bills aud adjourn, whereas
the purposes of the republican majority in
both branches of the Fifty-first congress in
cluded the passage of the Mckinley tariff
act. the federal election law and other party
measures, whose consideration took up most
Of the time in the spring and summer, the
appropriation bills giving way to them. 1t
Is also essential to compare the measures
remaining unpassed. The river and harbor
bill is passed and the sundry civil bill will
soon be passed, but consideration of these
measures, and the most vexing to the pa
tience of party managers, had not been
begun at this date In $780, The
appropriation bills this year are also
better advanced in the House OF
Representatives by reason of the
fact that committee action on every one
Of them except the general deficiency bill is
practically completed. For these reasons
adjournment of congress early In July Is
still entirely feasible. This possibility is
strengthened by the rapidity with which
the Senate has acted and is acting on the
appropriation bills. But on the other hand,
much time may yet be consumed by neces-
sary conferences between the two houses re-
garding the Senate amendments to these
bills, and on the naval bill especially a pro-
tracted contest is extremely probable