The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-12-11
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS-
Both Houses VIII Probably Dis
cuss Hawaiian Affairs.
A NEW BANKRUPTCY MEASURE.

1t Is to Take the Place of tho Defeated
Torrey Bill. and Favors tho Establish
ment of Voluntary System of Bank
ruptoy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE sudden col
lapse Of the bankruptcy bill in the house
last Friday has somewhat disorRanized
the program In the house for the present
week, which 1t was supposed would be al
most entirely devoted to that subject. As
1t Is the house began the week with no
definite work In view. The tariff will not
come up for debate until a week from to-
day, at the earliest, although II the pres
ent intention of the Democratic mem bers
of the ways and means committee holds
the bill, that Is the custom features of the
bill, will be reported on Wednesday. The
majority report will be filed with the bill,
but 1t will be some days later before the
Republicans will have their report pre-
pared. The bill for the admission of Utah,
which consumed the morning hour on
Friday, came up during the morning hour
today. The Republicans continued their
filibustcrln2 program, and at the con
clusion of the hour the privilege of the
bill ended and 1t was returned to its place
on the calendar.
Tomorrow the committee on judiciary
meets, and it is expected that it will i'm
mediately report with favorable recon.
mendation Mr.. Bailey's bill for the estab-
lishment of n voluntary system of bank
ruptcy. Although the house gave a crush.
ing majority against the Torrey bill
which included both the involuntary and
voluntary features, the prevailing opinion
is that an overwhelming sentiment in the
IftI1 fnt eiv, ,+al,, l.
ruptcy law.
a A favorable report on the bill to refund
cotton tax collected during the period of
1858 and 1888, amounting to SBS, or, o3s, has
been ordered by the Judiciary committee
and it is the ardent desire of the southern
members that it receive consideration this
week.
1t is not improbable also that the Ha-
waiian affair may reuch the arena of de
bate in the house in some form before the
week closes. The Hit resolutions calling
for the papers in the case declaring that
the intention of the administration to re,
store the queen is repugnant to the spirit
OF the constitution were postponed until
tomorrow by the committee, but il is not
thought that the Democrats will make
further resistance to the first resolution at
least. Some very interesting preliminary
diminishing is likely to occur when the
resolution gets into the house.
The senate will in all probability plunge
into a political discussion on senator Hills
motion to take up his bill for the repeal
of the federal election law The contest
of this election bill has from the be.
ginning of this congress been expected to
furnish more genuine political talk than
any other likely to be under discussion
during the present congress. Senator
Hills motion will be antagonized by n
counter motion from Senate" HOar to re-
fer the bill to the committee on privi-
leges and elections, which will be offered
as a substitute. There is a possibility
that Senator Hoar's motion may carry.
The chances are that the Hawaiian uues
tiOn will again during the week receive
the attention of the senate. 1t is expected
that the president will send in his reply
to the senate resolution of inquiry carly in
the week, giving in detail his instructions
to Minister Willis and all other informa-
ton in his possession Tho past week has
developed the fact that large number of
the Democratic senators stand ready to
defend Mr.. Cleveland's olicy.