Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04
CLOSING DAYS
Of SD Congress Will Probably
Be Lively Ones.
Measures That May Cause an Extra
Session Of 54th Congress.
Democrats Have Practically Lost Control Of
Senate and Are at Sea.

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remaining before final adjournment ar
likely to be crowded with striking Incl
dents and exciting debates ON topics, an.
one of which may produce deadlock ant
compel the calling of the 54th Congress il
extra session. Earnest efforts are being
made by the administration leaders t,
avoid this contingency
The situation is rendered less Favorable
than at the beginning of the session b.
the fact that the Democrats have practi
cally lost control of the Senate, and are S,
divided on financial issues in the Hous
as to be practically in the minority in tina
Chamber, upon many Of the leading ques
tons at issue.
| The Senate by agreement will take ;
vote on the District of Columbia bill;
perfectly inoffensive measure of local adj
ministration, which in previous years ha
usually been passed as rapidly as it coul(
be read, but this year has occupied tn,
attention of the Senate for three days
Notwithstanding the indignant denia
that any dilatory tactics were contempla
ted on this measure
Much more important than q vote or
this bill will be the debate which will bt
sprung, tomorrow, in the morning hour,
on the motion of Senator Mcpherson OF
New Jersey, to discharge the finance com
mittee from further consideration of the
bill introduced by Mr.. Sherman for the
relief of the treasury.
This will undoubtedly precipitate an
other financial discussion. Mr. McPher.
son will speak to the resolution himself
and Mr.. PETER has prepared speech on
ho c,tlxtoct hn hoe
anxious to deliver for several days. The
discussion will probably run through the
morning hour fer several days.
When the diplomatic and consular ar-
preparation bill is called up, as it is cx-
pected to be, early in the week, by Sena-
tor Blackburn of Kentucky, chairman of
the subcommittee, which has it in charge,
still more animated political debate is
in prospect.
The whole Hawaiian question will come
up and it is expected that with the acces-
sions given to the opponents of the ad-
ministration by the arrival of Senators
Lee Mantle and Clark of Montana, the
action of the Senate, last week, when by
a majority of two votes, it adopted the
Vest substitute, unfolding the policy of
non-intervention in Hawaii, will be re
versed. This substitute was never acted
upon as a finality, but is still pending as
an amendment to the original resolution,
which condemned the action of the adj
ministration and declared it the sense of
the Senate that warship be kept at Homo
lulu.
The appropriation recommended to be
added to the bill by the Senate committee
en- appropriations, for the construction of
the American cable to Hawaii which in
directly conflicts with the recommended
tions of the President in his recent mes
sage as to the landing place of Hawaiian
cables, will necessarily provoke further
debate
This amendment appropriates $780, 900
and authorizes the President to contract
for the entire work of laying a Geographic
cable between the United States and the
Hawaiian Islands and the direct prosecu-
tion of such work whenever such con-
tract shall be made.
This will be followed by another parti-
san debate on the amendment, also recon-
mended by the Senate committee on APP
preparations, to appropriate $4,000 for the
execution of tie obligations of the United
States in protection of the interests and
plopWAOy VI thC obitCi JAdtto III Vic
Samoan islands under the existing treaty
with the government of those islands and
with the governments of Germany and
Great Britain. Here, again, the recon-
mendations of Secretary Gresham are an
tagonized.
Senators Aldrich, Hawley, Lodge Hoar,
Chandler, Allison, Teller and Platt pro-
pose to take part in the debate on Ha-
waiian resolutions and possibly also upon
the Samoan question.
Mr. Allen, the Populist senator from
Nebraska, is liable at any time to pre-
cipitate another partisan debate upon a
privileged question by calling up his rcso-
luton to investigate the recent election
of a senator in Alabama. The so-called
credentials of Col. Reese Senator Nor
gan's Populist opponent having been in,
PRODUCED and placed on file, it is within
the limits of possibility that Mr.. Allen
may get the united Republican support
for his resolution, which directs the APP
pointment of a committee with full power |
to investigate and report to the Senate.
The probable programme of business in |
the House is this: Monday will be given |
to the consideration of what is known as |
the "omnibus claim bill, being meas
ure reported from the committee on war
claims combining 81 separate war claims, |
referred to that committee, and calling
for a total appropriations of over 5000,
300. The consideration of this measure |
has always, heretofore, been antagonized
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be /
assigned to the consideration and DISPOSE |
ton Of the latest currency and banking
bill, reported Friday last from Mr.. |
Springer's banking ard currency COM
mittec.
It is said that the administration is not
entirely satisfied with the provisions of
The banking and currency bill, as reported
% the House by the committee, Friday
The section relating to the retirement Of
he greenbacks and treasury notes, which
the amount to be retired to the
amount of the national bank circulation,
hat may be issued, is said to be the most
Objectionable of the various changes made
~ the committee in the text of the bill as
originally prepared
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