Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-02
MAKING A LONG DAY OF IT.
How the Senate Record VIII Evad'
the Sunday Question.

How the Senate Record VIII Evadc
the Sunday Question.
THE Philadelphia Sabbath Association
protest against Congress ever doing bust
ness on Sabbath. By order T. A. Fornley,
corresponding secretary"
This Is copy of telegram which Vice
President Stevenson received this morning
and which he politely laid before the Sem
ate Immediately after Chaplain Milburn
had offered prayer. The telegram was
filed among the archives of the Senate, and
some day the enterprisins historian will
find 1t there and will then wonder whether
the protest was of any avail. He will look
at the journals OF the Fifty-third Congress,
third session, and he will doubtless find
that there is no record Of any session being
hold on Sunday. the 81 Of March, 1895 He
may notice the recorded proceedings
OF the legislative day OF Saturday, March
2. 1898, to be very xoluminous, and he may
marvel how such u tremendous amount
of business could have been accomplished
between the hours of u am. and mid
night on Saturday.
How Today Will he Stretched.
Nevertheless it IS quite likely, in fact.
absolutely necessary. that the Senate should
hold session tomorrow, which being,
to quote the song of sally in Our
Alley" The day that comes between
the Sabbath, according to the Christian
calendar. Ii is expected that the debate
on the naval appropriation bill will be clos
ed at an early hour today. comparatively
speaking, and that the bill will be passed
before nightfali. If this can be accom-
pushed. and no legislative ghosts shall rise
from their graves to disturb the weary
Senators, recess will probably be TAX en-
in the early night. say at O'Clock. until
tomorrew morning. This recess is neces-
Sary to continue the existence of the leg
isIative day of March p which must not be
allowed to expire until all Is done on Sun
day that is ready to be done.
1t is expected that most of the confer
ence reports will be in such shape by to-
morrow noon that they can be disposed of
before the Senate shall take recess an
adjournment tomorrow evening. With the
decks clear, it will then be quite safe for
the Senate to adjourn tomorrow night. thus
ending the legislative day of March 2, al
though this is not likely to be done, as it
is the usual custom to continue the legis-
latiVe day of the legal day preceding the
4th of March UP to the time of adjourn
ment on the last day of the session. Ordin-
arily this is March 3, but the Intervention
of Sunday this year Sunday not being
recognized as an appropriate day for legis-
lation, between the 4th of March and the
last legal day preceding makes it neces-
sary that March = should be the day to be
of an adjournment tomorrow night recess
until an early hour Monday morning will
be more likely to be had.
The Appropriation Bills.
The calendars show that there are still
only two regular appropriation bills of all
the thirteen signed by the President. The
status of the budgets at noon today was
prac tically the same as that which was
noted IN yesterdays Star, with the excep-
ton that the Senate had passed the def
cheney bill and sent it to conference, thus in
creasing the number of bills in conference
from seven to eight. This is an extraor-
binary number of disputed measures for
such late season in the session, and from
now on all depends upon the speed with
" hich these conference committees work.
houses will from this time forward until
Monday noon probably be the busiest men
in the employ of the government. veter-
ans among them say that never before has
the pressure been SO great.