The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-18

The Rush of Closing Days Begins in the
House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S-There is begin
ming to be slight uneasiness on the Dem
ocratic side of the senate that some of the
appropriation bills may fail There re-
mains only eleven working days of the
session, and four of the most important
of these bills are still entirely unconsid-
cred in the senate. These are the Indian,
the sundry civil the legislative and the
general deficiency bills, each of them con-
sidered 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 marked 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 thereby rem
der themselves amena5le to the charge of
making an excuse for an extra session.
The Democratic managers expect to gain
considerable time by moving at an early
day for IL o'clock sessions and following
this soon by prolonging the daily sessions
into night They had expected not to
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 postot1ice the Indian and
| the agricultural bills last week. Instead,
| they succeeded only in passing the post
| office bill and in having the agricultural
bill still only partially considered and the
Indian bill untouched.
The agricultural bill will be disposed of
today, and after that is out of the way the
sundry civil bill will be taken up. The
sundry civil bill has not yet been reported
| from committee, but it is hoped that it
| will be reported this afternoon.
There is very little prospect for much
/ consideration of any other subject, and
the probabilities for any general legisla-
| ton, such as that proposed in the pooling,
/ territorial admission, Pacific railroad, navy
personnel and bankruptcy bills are grow
ing smaller and smaller every day. There
| will be a strong effort to get up and dis
pose of the pooling bill but there will be
determined opposition, and some of it's
best friends are growing discouraged over
the prospects. The probabilities for the
week also include cursory discussion of
the territorial bills, but the prospects are
all against their passage There are sew
eTal financial bills and resolutions which
may be called up, and the rules of the SEN
ate permit such latitude of debate that a
financial speech may be injected at any
time.
The rush of the closing days of the ses-
sion began today in the house For the
past week members have been crowding
for the consideration of bills by unani-
nous consent This week the rush will
be more apparent whenever the regular
appropriation 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 general deficiency. The former has
been considered for two days, and it will
probably require two more tomorrow and
Wednesday,, today under the rules, being
J suspension day. The general deficiency
bill, which will follow will take up two
, days. Conference reports will consume
the rest of the week unless another oppor
tunity is given to the Pacific railroad com
, mittee to secure vote on the funding bill
) which has been again favorably reported
with an amendment in the shape of &
proposition for the Union Pacific to settle
I the account with the government by the
payment of the principal of the debt due