The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-02-23
WILL Soon QUIT.
Congress Is Now Nearing It's
Closing Days.
Villas MAKES A THREAT.
An Extra Session May Have to Be Called
by Mr, Cleveland.

Measures OF Importance Choking the
National Legislative Hopper-Sher-
mans Bond Plan Passes the Senate.
All Money to BE Kept at Par--Judge
jackson Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-The back
ward state of the appropriation bills
lends serious interest to the remark that
Senator Villas dropped Saturday during
the long debate on the Sherman bond
amendment, that there might be only
short interval between the adjournment
of this congress and the assembling of the
next. There are two or three other
matters of discussion still TO come up in
connection with the sundry civil bill in
the senate whose consideration has
already consumed the best part of 8
week. Included among these is the
proposed amendment in regard TO the
site for a new government printing
office, round which many opposing inter
ests seem TO have centered and to have
enlisted champions on the senate floor.
After that bill is disposed Of there is the
legislative appropriation bill ready for
action, upon which there are half a
dozen fights imminent. Then there are
the pension and postOllice appropriation
bills to follow Both of these measures
have been productive Of many columns
of elOQuenCe in the house, and it IL not
likely that they will bG more lightly
passed over in tho senate. Mr.. Allison.
chairman of the appropriation commit
tee, threatens night sessions Of the SEN
ate TO dispose Of these appropriation
bills, but experience has shown that it
is impossible TO hOld the senate together
in night sessions for more than one
or two nights, and those are general
emergency nights at the close Of the
session.
The Nicaragua bill, another fruitful
topic Of talk. is the unfinished business,
and there is the Hawaiian treaty to be
disposed Of in executive session.
The appropriation bills are in a back
ward state in tine house owing largely TO
what threatened to be an inteTmlnable de-
bate over the pension appropriation bill,
and recourse will be had today to rapid
transit in parliamentary procedure by
passing the agricultural and naval ap-
preparation bills under suspension Of the
rules.
It is possible that the New York bridge
bill and the Utah admission bill also
may come up under suspension Of the
rules. The passage Of the agricultural
and naval bills will leave before the
house only the pCstuifiCe and Indian az
preparation bills. 1t should not be a
tedious task to get action by the house
on these.
All the bills heretofore passed have
been amended by the senate, however,
and considerable time between now and
March will have to be spent in acting
on conference reports on the approprla-
tions.
Mr.. Hatch is getting very restless over
the delay in the rules committee on his
request for q day for the anti.OptiOns
bill and it is almost certain that a move
Of some sort will be made by him this
week. He has not asked for an Opportu-
nifty to pass the bill under suspension Of
the rules and it is asserted by its OppO-
hents that he could not so pass the bill
If he tried. Two other courses are open
to him, first to get a special order from
the rules committee giving him q day
for his bill and then to vote down the
previous question, az the silver men at
tempted unsuCCessfully TO do, and amend
the order by making Cloture part Of
it, second, to move to go into committee
| Of the whole to consider revenue bills
This latter course would put no curb On
the filibusters and therefore Mr.. Hatch
is not liEel to take this course. If he
aid so the fight would be o." of endur.
ance between the friends q opponents
Of the anti-options bill. Notice has been
| given that the car coupler bill with SEN
ate amendments will be called up next
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