The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-18

Washington, Feb. 17.-There is be
ginning to be a slight uneasiness on
the Democratic side of the Senate that
some Democratic appropriation may
fail. There remains only twelve moro
working days of the session, and four
of the more important Of these bills
are entirely unconsidered in the Sen
civil, the legislative and the general
deficiency bills, each of them consid-
cred as more likely to afford ground
for debate than any of the approprta-
ton bills which have already received
attention. This anxiety has not yet,
however, been very pronounced. It
would be more marked but for the fact
that it is generally believed that the Re
publicans are sincere in their protes-
tations that they do not desire to pro-
long 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
extra session.
To Gain Time.
The Democratic managers expect to
gain considerable time by moving at
an early day for II O'Clock sessions
and following discussion by prolonging
! the daily sessions into the night. They
( had expected not to hold II o'clock Ses-
sions 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 the agricul-
| tural bills last week. Instead, they sue
| Ceeded only In passing the postoft1ce
! bill and in having the agricultural bill
| still only partially considered and the
Indian bill untouched. If it becomes
apparent that the Indian bill will re-
quire time proportionate to that put in
on the poStoffice or District of Column
bill bill, the motion for earlier meet
| ingS, which is already pending, will
! be pressed early in the week.
| The agricultural bill will be disposed
| of on Monday, and after that is out
| of the way, the sundry civil bill will
| be taken up. The sundry civil has not
yet been reported from committee, but
| it is hoped that it will be reported to-
MISUNDERSTANDING 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 appro-
priation measure to proceed with.
No Territorial Bills.
There is very little prospect for
much consideration of any other sub
legislation, such as that proposed in
the pooling, territorial admission, Pa
cific railroad. naval personnel and
bankruptcy bills are growing smaller
every day. There will be a strong eff
fort to get up and dispose of the pooling
bill but there will be determined ODpo-
sition, and some of its best friends are
growing discouraged over the prospect
The probabilities of the week also in,
clude a discussion of the territorial
bills, but the prospects are against
their passage.
There are several financial bills anc
resolutions which may be called up
and the rules of the Senate permit such
latitude that a financial speech may be
injected at any time and regardless Of
8 the measure in hand There is still
] occasional reference to the agreement
) | which came so near being completed
Fl Thursday last for the two days de
; bate at the beginning of the week OF
the Jones BILL with a vote at the close
/ and the matter may be revived with OF
without unanimous consent. Senate
: Jones still insists that either his bill
shall be considered on its merits, Of
that its opponents shall show their in
< disposition to consider it by filibuster
' ing against it. Senator Villas has alSt
/ given notice of an effort to call UP hi
gold bond bill tomorrow, and in doins
= so is liable to precipitate financial
discussion at the beginning of tn
weeks work.
Altogether the outlook is for bus,
week in the Senate.