The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-12

WASHINGTON, u y, MArCu III.
GOLDEN silence, will give place to
u silver speech in the senate from
n its reassembling at noon tomor-
WI row until its probable adjourn
ment for the week on Thursday next
Under agreement ths Bland seignior
age bill in the form in which 1t passed
the house, with all its alleged cruditiss
unchanged, will come up immediately
after the morning hour tomorrow,
probably about L. so p. IN. aud will
hold its place as the unfinished bust
ness until Wednesday at > p m, when
the vote is to 0e taken on Mr. AlIisons
motion to reconsider the vote by which
the bill was read the third time aOd
put upon its passage.
That motion failing the motion TO
commit will be voted upon, and that
falling debate is to be continued under
the FIVE minute rule until Thursday at
2o'clock, when the vote is to be taken
on the final passage of the bill. Should
Mr.. Allisons' notion prevail, the tinsl
vote will be taken at the same time,
but the bill would in ths meantlms be
open to amendment
DISCUSSION WILL BE LIVELY.
No senator has given notice of an in
tention to speak on this bill, but silver
coinage is subject upon which some
senators at least are never dumb
1t is altogether unlikely that the
finance committee will be able to re-
port the tariff bill to the senate this
week, as the members of that com nit
tee are all more or less interested in
the seigniorsge BILL and will be anx-
ious to be in the senate during the de-
bate,
The sundry civil appropriation bill,
which was called up by Chairman
Sayers just before the house adjourned
Saturday, will engross the attention OF
the house probably all the week This
is the bill which covers all the great
appropriations of the government, not
mental appropriation bills and matters
pertaining to Indians and rivers and
harbors.
1t is the omnium gathernom Of all
the odds and ends and is the only bill
into which a new appropriation can
safely be injected without running the
risk Of being thrown out on point OF
order. The sundry civil bill for the
present session as reported By the com
mittee on appropriations carries in
round figures $32, 100000, the amount
recommended TO bs appropriated by
the estimates was S33, 381, 900, the
amount appropriated tor like purposes
for the current year was S3l, 10000
THE IMPORTANT PRvIsIoNs.
Among its new or important provis-
ions are these, that the secretary of the
treasury may contract for the whole or
any portion of public buildings at
Kansas City, Omaha. st. Paul and
Sioux City, Ia, that the pay of cadets
in the revenue service shall be $500 a
year and one ration a day; that the
secretary of war shall employ veteran
who fought in the battle of Chatts-
nOoga as the representative of the
army Of the Tennessee to assist in pre-
pairing the historical tablets Of that
army for the national military park
that the board of managers Of the Sol.
disrs' home shall rapport annually to
the secretary OF war; that the soldiers
homes shall be visited annually by an
officer of the inspector generals de-
partment
Before the week closes the commit,
tee on Indian affairs expects to report
the appropriation bill balloted to 1t un
der the rules Secretary Hoks Smith
has issued an order transferring the
Indian warehouse from New York to
Chicago, and the northwestern msm-
bers of the house are dsarous Of nav
ing the warehouse divided between
Chicago and Omaha, the former to be
the puchasiug station and the latter
the distributing station.
Friday next has been set apart for
sulogies upon the late representative
W. H Enochs, from the Eighth Ohio
district.