Evening journal., 1895-02-18
CLOSING RUSH BEGINS.
Congress VIII Be Very Busy For
the Next Twelve Days.
SENATE HAsIOTsOF WORK UNDONE

Several Of the Most important Appropria-
tion Hills Yot Romain Unconsiderod, and
Some Of Them May Not Get Through at
An-Iattle Chance For New Legislation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lS The rush of the
closing days Of the session began today.
IN the house for the last week members
have been crowding for the consid ration
Of bills by unanimous consent This week
the rush will be more apparent whenever
the regular appropriation bills, conf r
ence ports and otner privileged masters
are up before the house But Two appro-
priaiion bills ara yet undisposed Of by
the house-the naval and general dehcl n
cy. The former has been considered for
two days and ii will probably require two
more tTuesday and Wedn sdayl, today
under the rules being suspension day. The
general deficiency which will follow, will
take up two days
Conference reports will consume the
rest OF tho week unless another opportu-
niy Is given 10 the Pacific railroad com
mitieo TO secure vote on the funding
bill, which has boen again reported favor.
ably, with an amendment in The shape OK
proposition for tho Union Pacific 10 set
Tie the account with the government by
the payment Of tho principal Of the debt
due
Among the bills upon which action win
be asked under suspension of the rules
today IS the bill reported from the COM
mittee ON pensions to eQualize the pay Of
Mexican veterans
uneasness In the Senate.
There is beginning TO be a slight un-
easiness on the Democratic side OF the SEN
ate that some of the appropriation bills
may fail There remain only IL working
days OF the session. and four OF tho most
important Of these bills are still entirely
unconsidered in the senate These are tho
Indian, the sundry civil, the legislative
aud the general deficiency bills each Of
them considered as more likely TO afford
ground for debate than any OF the appro-
priation bills which have already received
attention. This anxiety is not yet, how
ever, very pronounced. 1t would be more
marked but for the fact that it is general
ly believed that the Republicans are sin
cere in their protestations that they do not
desire to prolong debate sufficiently to
cause the failure Of any Of the bills and
thereby render themselves amenable TO
the charge Of making an excuse for an ex-
ira session.
The Democratic managers oxpoot to gain
considerable time by moving at an early
day for ! ! o'clock sessions and following
this soon by prolonging the daily sessions
Into night. They had expected not to press
the question Of II clock sessions until
the sundry civil bill should be taken up,
but when they reached that decision they
had supposed that they would be able TO
dispose Of The pOstoiiue, the Indian and
the agricultural bills last week.
Instead they succeeded only in passing
the postoi1ce bin and In having the agri-
cultural bill still only partially considered
and the Indian bill untouched. If It be
comes apparent that the Indian bill viii
require time proportionate to that put IN
on the postoifCe or District OF Columbia
bill, the motion for earlier meetings which
Is already pending will be pressed early
in the week.
Little Prospect For General Legislation.
The agricultural bin will be disposed of
today, and after that Is out Of the way tho
sundry civil bill viii be taken up The
sundry civil bill has not yet boen reported
from committee, but it Is hoped that it
will be repc@ted today. Certainly it will
be before the Indian bill can bo gotten
out of the way so TINT thoro is no prospect
OF the senate's finding itself without an
appropriation measure TO proceed with
There is very little prospect for much
consideration Of any other subject and
the probabilities for any general legisla-
tion such as hat proposed in the pooling
Territorial admission, Pacific railroad,
navy personnel and bankruptcy bills, are
growing smaller and smaller every day.
there will be a strong effort to get up
and dispose Of the pooling bill, but ther5
will be dot rmined opposition, and some Of
its best friends are growing discouraged
over the prospects. Tho probabilities for
tho week also include n oursory discussion
OF the territorial bills, but the prospects
are an against their passage
There are several financial bills and res
olutions which may be called mp, and the
rules Of the senate permit such latitude Of
deba that financial speech may be in
ieotod at any time and regardless of tho
measure in hand.
There is still occasional reference 10 the
argument which came so near being conn
plcted Thursday last for a two days de-
bate at tho beginning of the week on the
Jones bill, with q vote at the close, and
the ma ter may be revived, with or with
out unanimous consent Senator Jones
still insists hat eithor his bill shall be con-
sidered on It's merits or that its opponents
shall show tl,oir indisposition Co consider
it 10y hlibustering against il. Senator vi
| las has also given notice Of an effort to call
up his gold bond bin today, ana in doing
so is liable Co preeipitate q financial dis
cussion 40 Tho beginning Of ,he week S
1 work Altogether the outlook IS for a busy