The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-02-05
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS-
Hawaii and the Federal Elections
Repeater to the Front,
BLAND's SILVER COINAGE BILL.

~ viii he Brought Up In the House on
Wednesday Federal Elections RE-
pcnIer 20 he Voted on Tomorrow in
the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb 5-The first two
days Of the present week I'm the senate
will be taken up with the federal elections
bill, to the exclusion Of everything else
except the routine morning business,
which will include only the introduction
of bills and the presentation of reports
and petitions. The senate has agreed that
the discussion Of the bond resolution of
Senator Stewart, which under ordinary
circumstances would have right of way
mp to o'clock of each day until disposed
Of, shall go over until Wednesday to per
init the uninterrupted continuation Of the
debate on the elections bill, upon which
the vote will be taken tomorrow after
noon.
The agreement provides that the senate
shall sit tomorrow until this measure is
disposed of, and in all probability it, will
ba observed There is a bare possibility,
however, that the debate may not be ex-
hausted by that time, and that the dis
position Of it will not be accomplished
then, as agreements of this kind in the
senate are not always considered as in.
violative There is also an agreement
that the discussion of the bond resolution
shall be resumed ON Wednesday, and the
week is likely to produce several speeches
upon this question.
1t is possible that the Hawaiian resolu-
tion introduced by Senator Turpie from
the foreign relations committee, or the
},
which will probably reach the senate
during the week, will receive a degree OF
attention, but it is hardly probable that
much time will be given it, because of the
other subjects pressing for attention.
The Hawaiian debate, Mr. Bland's bill
for the coinage of the silver seigniorage
in the treasury, the O'Neill-Joy contested
election case and perhaps the Notifications
appropriation bill will occupy the atten-
tion Of the house during the week Bvau
arrangement agreed upon just before the
house adjourned Saturday night the II9-
waiian debate Is to be extended until 3:3O
tomorrow afternoon, the special order for
its consideration being modified so as TO
include a provision for vote upon the
Boutelle resolution, as well as the Nc
Creary and Hit resolutions
The extension of the time will serve the
purpose of definitely disposing Of Hawaii
in the house iuHsmuch as tomorrow, had
the order not been modified it, was Mr.
Boutelc's intention to come to the front
with his resolution. As it. was privi-
legged question it could not have been put
aside and might have resulted in addi-
tional complications, so that the Demo
cratic leaders concluded that the shortest
way out of the difficulty would be to
agree TO the compromise.
As yet no Democrat has broken over
party lines of the Hawaiian matter, as
for as debate is concerned, and it seems
! likely that the McCreary resolution will
| pass by practically a party vote. MIR.
| Holman, however, is still bent upon OF
| fering his resolution COndenlning the
action of Mr. Stevens, but at the same
| time reproving the cours OF the admins
| tratiou in attempting to restore the de
| posed queen
On Wednesday Mr. Bland will call uT
| his bill for the coinage of the silver seign-
! forage in the treasury (amouuting TO owe
| $50 600, ,OOO) that sum to be made immedi
| ately available if necessary to meet the
wants of the treasury by the issuance o
treasury notes similar to those issued un
der the act of 1890 Mr. Bland and many
of his Democratic colleagues, who ar,
| bitterly opposed to the bond issue, wait tC
relieve the treasury in this way rather
| than by the issue Of bonds
On Friday the pNrIll-Joy contested
election case will come up, and if disposed
of on that day will be followed b,
the Notifications appropriation bill, it be
ing the intention of the appropriation
committee 10 crowd the appropriation
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