The herald., 1895-02-18
THIS WILL involve TALK
Matters That Congress Will
Consider This Week
SOME APPROPRIATIONS SHY
Scheme of the Democratic Managers to
Get Early Meetings
A Great Rush Looked for in the House, as
the Members viii Try and Oct Num-
ber of Bills Through

! that some Democratic appropriation
may fail There remains only twelve
more working days of the session,
and four of the most important of these
, bills are still entirely unconsidered in the
Senate. These are the Indian the sun
dry civil the legislative and the general
! deficiency bills, each of them considered
as more likely to afford ground for debate
/ than any of the appropriation bills which
have already received attention. This
anxiety is not yet, however, very pro-
nounced. 1t would be more mark ed but
for the fact that it is generally believed
that the Republicans are sincere in their
! protestations that they do not desire to
| prolong debate sufficiently to cause the
failure of any of the bills and the reby
render themselves amenable to the charge
of m king an excuse for an extra session.
The Democratic managers expect to
gain considerable time by moving at an
early day for II clock sessions and fol-
lowing discussion by prolonging the daily
sessions into the night. They had expect
ed not to hold II O'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 postoffice, the Indian and
agricultural bills last week. Instead they
succeeded only in passing the postotfice
bill and in having the agricultural bill
still only partially considered and the In
dian bill untouched. If it becomes APP
parent that the Indian bill will require
time proportionate to that put in on the
postofice or District of Columbia bill, the
motion for earlier meetings, which is
already pending, will be pressed early in
the week
The agricultural bill will be disposed of
! Monday, and after that is ont of the way
the sundry civil bill will be taken up.
The sundry civil bill has not yet been
received from the committee, but it is
hoped that it will be reported tomorrow
certainly it will be before the Indian bill
can be gotten out of the way-so there is
no prospect for the Senate finding itself
without an appropriation measure to pro-
ceed with.
There is very little prospect for much
consideration of any other subject and
probability for any general legislation,
such as that proposed in the pooling,
territorial admission, Pacific railroads
navy personnel and bankruptcy bills, are
growing smaller every day. There will be
strong effort to get up and dispose of
the pooling BILL but there will be deter
mined opposition, and some of its best
| friends are growing discouraged over the
| prospects.
The proba bilities for the weak also in
clude discussion of the territorial bills,
but the prospects are against their pass
age. There are several financial bills and
resolutions which may be called up and
the rules of the Senate permit such lati-
tude of debate that financial speech may
be injected at any time, and regardless of
the measure in hand. There is still occa-
sional reference to the agreement which
came SO near being completed Thursday
last for two days debate at the begin
ming of the week on the Jones bill, with a
vote at the close, and the matter may be
reviewed with or without unanimous con-
sent. Senator Jones still insists that
either his bill shall be considered on its
merits or that its opponents shall show
their indisposition to consider it by fill
clustering against it. Senator Villas has
also given notice of an effort to call up his
gold bond bill tomorrow and the doing so
is likely to precipitate gold bond dis
cusson at the beginning of the weeks
work. Altogether the outlook is for a busy
week in the Senate.
The rush of the closing days of the ses-
sion begins tomorrow. In the House for the
past week members have been crowding
for consideration of bills by unanimous
consent. This week the rush will be more
apparent whenever the regular appropria-
tion bills conference reports and other
privileged matters are up before the
House. But two appropriation bills are
yet undisposed of by the House, the naval
and the general deficiency. The former
has been under consideration for
two days and it will probably re-
quire two more (Tuesday and Wednesday,
tomorrow under the rules being suspen-
sion day. The general deficiency bill,
which will follow will take two days.
Conference reports will consume the rest
of the week until another opportunity is
given to the Pacific Railway committee to
secure vote on the funding bill, which
has again been reported favorably with an
amendment in the shape of proposition
for the Union Pacific TO settle the account
with the Government by the payment of
the principal of the debt due. Among the
bills upon which action will be asked
under suspension of the rules tomorrow is
to be reported to the Committee on Pen
sions to equalize the pay of Mexican vet