The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-06-11
SIX DAYS IN CONGRESS
Plans for This Weeks Work In House
and Senate
SUGAR WILL BE ON TAP
And the Matter OF the Condition of
the American Merchant Marine
VIII Be Discussed-So VIII the
Question Of Free Wool.

WASHINGTON, juno 10-The Indian
question, in its various ramiflcations on
schools, agencies and supply depots. will
still continue to occupy tho attention OF
tho house In the early days OF the coming
week. Judge Holman, in charge of tho
bill. said he expected to pass the bill by
Tuesday night IL he was obliged to surren-
der on Monday to District of Columbia
Vote on Wednesday.
After that there are number Of inn
portant bills struggling for priority. The
general deficiency bill will be reported to
tho house on Tuesday and Chairman
Sayres of the appropriation committee
will urge its immediate consideration in
order to clear the calendar of appropria-
tion bills.
Representative Sayres will be in charge
Of the deficiency bill, Notwithstanding the
fact that Representative Breckinridge 10
chairman of the deficiency subcommittee.
II is expected that Hatch will try to
have the anti-option bill follow tho Indian
bill.
Representative Cooper also expects to
have day set apart for action on his bill
authorizing the taxation of greenbacks.
Representative Livingston of Georgia is
pressing bill for government aid to the
cotton exposition at Atlanta.
Culbertson also wants early recoR nition
for several important bills affecting fed.
eral court proceedings and the territorial
statehood bills are being vigorously
pressed to the front. No exact order Of
priority for these bills has yet been made,
but they are the ones 10 receive the ear
liest attention.
The republican minority Of the house
committee on merchant marine and fish
cries have submitted to the house report
against the FREQ shipping bill introduced
by Representative Fithian of Illinois.
which the democratic faction of the COM
mittee has recommended to the house.
Representative Perkins Of Iowa is tho
author OF the report and ii also bears the
signatures of Representatives Gillette Of
Massachusetts, and Phillips OF Pennsyl.
| vania.
"The measure is more fitly entitled to
designation as bill to destroy American
ship building in the interests Of foreign
countrles," said Perkins. "The report
from the majority 10 wholly occupied in
placing the worst possible estimate upon
the present condition OF our own mer-
chant marine. The minority are not dis.
posed to accept SO dark a view, or dis
posed to make an argument wholly on the
darker side. The majority wholly confine
themselves to the most discouraQing view
Of the American competitive efforts and
| to make this the only excuse for the aban-
| donment of q distinctive national policy
which has been undis,urbed through all
the successive changes OF tho party and
the administration since its ination at
the beginning of our government. No at
| tempt to establish the passage of this bill
into law would prove helpful to the gov
ernment of the United States or TO tho
| shipping interests of its citizens. The
proposition is for an unconditional sur
render to foreign powers, both of tho
profits and safeguards involved in
the maintenance of our independ.
ence as builder Of our own
ships. That the adoption of this course
would prove highly satisfactory to Great
Britain and other important marine pow
ers need not be questioned; that il will
prove other than humiliation TO this re.
public, certain disgrace and possible dis
aster. may be accepted as equally prob.
| able"
Discussion Of the question, says the re.
port, may be carried on apart from the
matter of "bounties" and Subsidies" to
which the majority Of the committee de-
votes SO much attention. II is improb-
able that the bounty system in the sense
pointed out would be resorted to, and yet
the statement Of an American shipbuilder
that the steamship owners who perform a
public service by transporting ocean mails
undoubtedly expect TO pay for 1t, and
there 10 no reason why this country may
not pay for such service as well as the
countries with which 1t is chiefly in com.
petition.