The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-12-05
WORK BEFORE CONGRESS
MEASURES DEMANDING ATTEN-
TION OF SENATE AND HOUSE.

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RESOLUTIONS for CIoture-voorhees Likely
to Neglect His Infant-The bankruptcy
Bill to be Pushed-Free Coinage Com
ing-TariH to DO Given Right of Way
Over Everythina.
WAsHINaToN, ID. c., Dec. 2.-The
senate calendar is full of business.
There are fifty-six bills and seven mis-
cellaneous documents awaiting action
and there are number of other meas
ures lying on the calendar subject to
call. Not much headway Will be made
in the senate, at least not until after
the Christmas holidays.
The most important bill on the cal
endar is senate bill No. 453, introduced
by voorhees, August 10Th and referred
to the committee on finance, which
provides for the increase of national
bank circulation up to the par value
OF bonds deposited to secure such cir
culation. 1t is doubtful whether this
bill will be called up again. Voorhees,
stated this afternoon that he would
take no steps in regard to any matter
before his committee until there had
been meeting Of the committee. and
this meeting will be held on Tuesday
morning at the usual hour, II o'clock.
An early subject for discussion will
be the proposed changes in the rules,
which the long debate on the silver
bill brought to the attention of the
senate and the country There are
eighteen amendments now pending
before the committee on rules, and
that committee will meet to consider
them at the earliest practicable mo-
nent. The great majority of these
amendments are in the direction of
cloture and were introduced by sena-
tors as follows:
Hill 8; Butler 1; Mills 1; Hoar /;
Platt 2; Lodge Q; Gallinger Q; Dolph
2; Henderson 2, and Voorhees, I. ANY
report made by this committee recon-
mending cloture will be the signal for
the opening of prolonged and hot
debate.
In the house on Wednesday, Repre-
sentative Oates, of Alabama, will call
up the bankruptcy bill which will,
under the rules, at the conclusion of
the first session come up as unfinished
business. When the general debate
on this has lasted some time, Oates will
ask that it close in two days. After
ward amendments will be In order
and debate under the five minutes rule
will begin. Oates hopes to bring the
measure to vote in eight or ten days.
He thinks it will pass and he will en-
deavor to have it voted on before other
measures of more urgency gets the at
tcntion of the house.
The ways and means committee are
anxious to get the tariff bill up as soon
as possible and expect to do so before
the holiday recess. All other measures
will then retire in the house and give
the tariff bill the right of way.
Chairman Saycrs of the appropria-
tion committee will have two or three
appropriation bills ready for the house
to act upon by the end of the first
weeks session, but he will not offer
them for consideration if he sees that
they will in any way antagonizc the
"all important" question of revising
existing tariff laws. He notified
Speaker Crisp that the sundry civil
service and fertilization Kills are COM
pleted.
The house calendar contains some
ho' " houoS bliio ahu dDouU HlUy Ol Il
private character.
Bland, who now contests with Hol-
man the right to be called the oldest
member of the house, will endeavor to
bring up the silver question at tho
earliest day. A majority of the COM
mittee on coinage, weights and meas
ures, of which he is chairman, is in
favor of free coinage and will report
tavorably bill to rcenact the coinage
law of 1887. But the silver question
can not come up in the house until the
tariff bill is disposed of.
At some time during the session. and
as early as possible, Wheeler, of Ala
bama, chairman of the house committee
on territories, will ask the house to con-
slider the advisability of admitting to
the Union as new States Arizona, New
Mexico and Utah.
EIREn nv FIyING TRaIN