The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-26
READY FOR CONGRESS.
MEMBERS OF BOTH HOUSES BEGIN.
MING TO ARRIVE.

The District Of Columbia Appropri-
alton Bill Already Drafted-Chalr-
men Holman TO Assume His Usual
Position as Watch Dog of the Treas
ury-The Chances Against the Pas
sage of the Free List Bills.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-An is ready at
the capitol for the reassembling of congress
a week from next Monday. Vice Presi-
dent Morton and score of senator's are al
ready here. SO are over fifty representatives
and Speaker Crisp is expected daily.
The appropriation committee OF the House
has already drafted one Of the general ap-
preparation bills, that for the District of
Columbia, and the chairman and the clerks
Of that committee have planned the rest OF
their work for the winter.
Chairman Holman intends to do all that
a republican Senate and extravacant indi-
vidual democrats will permit to keep ap4
preparations down, but without repeating
legislation he and the other economical
democrats will be handicapped.
None of the senators and representatives
now have much expectation of any legis-
lation Of Importance beyond the enactment
of the regular appropriations bills at the
coming session.
FREE LIST BILLS.
Efforts will be made by the democrats in
the Senate to pass the free wool, free tin
plate, free binding twine and free cotton
ties bills passed by the House at the last
session and pigeon-holed in the Senate COM
mittee on finance, but they are not very
hopeful that even enough republicans five
70 ~,
will respect the will of the people reiterated
again this month and vote for these
measures
Senator Shernan's attempt to secure the
repeal Of his own mischievious silver law of
1890 will be paraleled by similar attempts
on the part of the hard money democrats, but
as yet neither Senator Sherman nor any
one else interested in this movement is at all
confident Of success. at this session.
THE DAVENPORT FEES.
Attempts may be made to strike at the
Davenport laws, or at least the Davenport
fees, but whatever is accomplished in this
connection will probably be on the legis-
lative, executive and Judicial appropriation
BILL which covers the appropriation fer
United States supervisors aud marshals and
their deputies. The democrats, believing
that the republicans OF both houses, with a
majority of course in the Senate, Will as
usual play politics and try to get them in a
hole, expect no assistance from them in
trying to remedy the present financial con-
dition Of the treasury, or in attempting to
reform the pension system, and so in talking
about wbat can be done on these lines they
usually postpone it until the next congress
meets.
ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.
The fact that Senators Stewart of Ne
vada, Carey of Wyoming, Dubois OF Idaho,
Wolcots of Colorado, and several other
western republican senators are favorable
to the admission of New Mexico and Arj-
zona as states, Senators Stewart and Carey
having as members of the Senate committee
on territories joined with the democrats to
order favorable reports on the Arizona and
New Mexico bills, makes some of the
democratic leaders hopeful that these
measures may be gotten through
at the coming session, but the time is SO
short and the opportunities for delaying the
bills, which are different on account of
amendments in the two houses, are SO
numerous that it seems TO most democrats
that New Mexico and Arizona will have TO
wait for the next congress.
The Torrey bankruptcy bill and the bill
increasing the responsibilities and liabilities
Of national bank directors, the latter having
been agreed upon by conference com
mittee, would pass if there was more time.
The anti-options bill will probably be kept
Off the statute books.