The morning call., 1895-02-18
BUSY Times FOR
CONGRESS COMING,
BILLS WILL HAVE TO Be RUSHED
IF THE WORK Is TO BE
COMPLETED.
ONLY TWELVE DAYS LEFT
The FUNDING BILL WILL BE
CALLED UP FOR VOTE
IN THE HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-There is begin
ming to be a slight uneasiness on the Dem
ocratic side of the Senate that some of the
Democratic appropriations may fail. There
remain only twelve more working days of
the session and four of the most important
of these bills are entirely unconSidered IN
the Senate. These are the Indian, the
sundry civil, the legislative and the gen.
eral deficiency bills, each OF them consld-
cred as ere likely to afford ground for de-
bate thai. of the appropriation bills
which have = w received attention.
This anxiety is not 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 the debates sufficiently to cause
the failure of any of the bills and thereby
render themselves liable 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
the discussions by prolonging the daily
sessions into the night. They had expect
ed not 10 hold II clock sessions until the
sundry civil bill should be taken up,
but when they reached that decision they
had supposed they would be able to dis
pose of the Postoffice, the Indian and the
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 Indian
bill untouched If it becomes apparent
that the Indian bill will require time pro-
portionate to that put in on the Postotfice
or District 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 out of the way
the sundry civil bill will be taken up. The
sundry civil bill has not yet been reported
from the committee, but it is hoped 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 appropri-
alton measure to proceed with.
There is very little prospect for much
consideration of any other subject and the
probability for any general legislation,
such as that proposed in the pooling, Ter
ritorial admission, Pacific railroads, navy
personnel and bankruptcy bills are grow
ing smaller every day. There will be a
strong effort made 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 blities for the week also in
clude discussion of the Territorial bills,
but the prospects are against their passage.
There are several financial bills and reso-
buttons which may De called up, and the
rules of the Senate permit such latitude of
debate that financial speech may be in
jected at any time and regardless of the
measure in hand.
Lnere is still occasional reference to the
areement which came so near being COM
pieted Thursday last for two days debate
Il, The beginning Of the week on the Jones
u-l, with a vote at the close. and the mat
Ter NAV be revived with or without unani-
nous consent. Senator Jones still insists
that either his bill shall be considered on
lis merits or that its opponents shall show
their inuispositiou to consider it by filibus-
tering against it. Senator Villas mas also
given notice of an effort to call up MS gold
bond bill tomorrow, and the doing SO is
Liable to precipitate a financial discussion
at the beginning Of the week 5 work. Alto
gether the outlook is for busy week in the
senate.