St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-20
BUSINESS GALORE.
Congress Has a World OF 1t to At
tend to.

tend to.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The back
ward state of the appropriation bills
lends eriousinterestt to the remark that
Senator Villas dropped yesterday during
the long debate Oil 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 ether
matters OF discussion still TO come UP III
connection with the pending suildry
civil bill in the senate whose consldera-
ton has already consumed the best part
of the week. Included among these Is
the proposed amendment in regard to
the site of new government printing
office. around which many opposing in
terestS seem to have centered aud
to have enlisted champions On the sell
ate floor. After that bill IS disposed of
there is the legislative appropriation
bill ready for action, upon which there
are half a dozen hot fights imminent.
Then there the pension and postoff1ce
appropriation bills to follow. Both OF
these measures have been productive
Of many columns Of elequence in the
house, and it is not likely that they will
be more lightly passed over in the SEN
ate. Mr.. Allison, chairman OF the APP
preparations committee, yesterday
threatened night sessions of the senate
to dispose of these appropriation bills,
but experience has shown that it is i'm
possible to hold the senate together in
night sessions for more than one or two
nights, aud those are generally emer-
gency nights at the very 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 backward
state in the house, owing largely to
what threatened TO be an inttrlninable
debate over the pension appropriation
bill, and recourse will be had tomorrow
to rapid transit in parliam entary pro-
cedure bs passing the agricultural and
naval appropriation bills under SuspeE4
sion Of the rules. 1t is possible that the
New York bridge bill and the Utah adj
mission 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 post
Office and the Indian appropriation bills.
1t should not De a tedious task 10 get
action before the house on these meas
ures. All pills 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 reporls OH the appropriate
tons, sdq' i
Mr.. Hatch is getting very restless over
the delay in the rules committee on his
request for day for the anticipation 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 Oppor-
tunitv to pass the bill under suspen-
sion of the rules. and it is asserted by
its opponents that he could not pass the
bill if he tried. Two other eour ses
are open, first to get special order
from the rules committee, giving him a
day for his bill, and then to vote down
the previous question, as the anti-silver
men attempted uusuceesSfully to do,
and amend the order by making the
cloture a part of it; second, to move to
go nto committee of the whole to con-
slider revenue bills. This latter course
would put no curb on the filibusters,
and therefore, MI Hatch is not liable
to take this course. Ii he did so, the
fight would be one of endurance be-
tween the friends and opponents of the
anti-options bill. Notice has been given
thot the ear coupler bill, Wsth the sen
ate amendments, will be called up next
Tuesday.