Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-12-05
TELEGRApHIC.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8O-It Is not pro- bsble that the house at the coming ses- sion of congress. which begins . week from today, can dispose of much of the proposed legislation which encumbers it's calendar. Little is usually accom-. plished at the short session beyond inc passage of the regular supply bills. Still the house, with its instrumental ites for the expedition of business, can accomplish great deal in a brief time. The question of additional revenues for the government will depend on the sea- ate, to which body the house sent the Dingley bill almost year ago. Should it be impossible or be deemed inexpedi- ent to press that measure through the senate, there is, of course, a possibility that the proposal to increase the rsve- nues by sn additional tax on beer or the imposition of duty on tea, coffee, etc.,
 may take tangible form, and If so, such
 Legislation must originate under the con- stitut ton in the lower branch of COD.
 gress.
 There are on the several calendars of the house, l465 bills reported from the various committees, and the proportion which will pass at the coming session must, be necessarily, almost in6nitesi- nal Most of them are, of course, pri- vate biils (of which there are 1lOO,) but there are also 265 bills on the calendar
 on the state of the union, and 99 public bills on the regular house calendar. Some of them are of very great public importance, and those interested will no doubt do all In their power to secure action on them. The power lodged in the hands of. the committee ua rulee, which gives the mem bers of that com- mittee control of the house program, will
 make that committee the practical ar-
 biter of what shsll be gu omitted to the
 house for its action. That committee Is
 composed at present of the speaker, Mir. Henderson of Iowa. Mir. Dslzell ot Psun :. sylvanis and Mr. McMillan of Teuues
 see. The death of ex-Spesker Crisp ere
 stes vscsLoy at the head of the minor ity of the committee, which must be flied by the speaker. The names prin- cipally mentioned in connection with the
 vacancy are MT. Bailey, of Texas, Mr.
 Oatchings of Mississippi, Mir. Turner of Georgia, Mir. Richardson of Tennessee and Mir. Dockery of Missouri.
 The bill which in macy respects is fraught at this time with most interest
 and which will press hardest for con-
 siderstion is the Pacific railroad fund
 ing pill. The bonds guaranteed by the government gre payable early in the
 coming year, and either an extension or a foreclosure stsres the roads in the
 face. For eight years funding bills have
 occupied good share of the attention
 of congress. The present. blll, of which
 Mir. Powers of Vermsnt IS the author,
 was reported shortly before the close of
 tue isst session. Everything will be
 done by those interested m it to secure
 consideration.
 The friends of the Nicaragua canal bill are also bending every energy to se-
 cure action CD the b,ll reported by Mir. Doolittle, which provides for guaran. tee by the United States of 5100, 900 GOO
 of bonds for the construction of the can
 al.
 The war claims committee, which showed fight on several occasions at the
 last session, promises to renew its sg-
 gressiveness this winter, especially fer
 the passage of the claims awarded under
 the Bowman aot and the French spOlis.
 tion claims.
 These claims, the former amounting
 to S562. .459 and the latter to g, 7U8, ,l96,
 were put on the sundry civil bill at the
 last session ss a rider of the senate, but
 the bill wss vetoed by the president, and they were then dropped. Mir.
 M ahoD, who is chairman of the war claims committee, will also present the
 Pennsylvania border claims, whloh have
 been pending in congress for years.
 The Loud bill, to cure the abuses of the law relating to second-clsss mail matter, under which newspaper matter is transmitted at cent per pound, and which has been the subject of much criticism of the postoffice department because of the advantage of the law taken i5 vsrIous ways for the transmits sion of books and pamphlets, will alec be pressed, as will the Pickler-Service fusion bill, which ocou pies . favorable petition on the calendar as 6 privileged report.
 Among the other bills are the Wade worth bill for the creation of bureau of animal industry for the inspection of meats and the regulation of tho trans portstioD of livestock; immigration bill; the Chiokering bill for ascertaininR the feasibility and cost of some sbip can al from the grestlakes to the Hudson, sev- eral important public land bills, the bills | for the admission of the territories and l nfharo of onao;o1 ,Dtaraot No ticular localities. There are also several l might come over to the house for con- sideration.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-Reports were in | quite general circulation here today | that Secretary Olney some time in Nov. ember had given the Spanish govern ment courteously but firmly to under. stand that the Cuban rebellion must be | crushed within three months or the | United States would be compelled to in. Lervene to stop hostilities. It was said | that prominent republican senators had been spprised of the ultimstum. No l of the repOrts could DC ob- sained ID official circles here today and | t was denied that Spain had been given my such ultimatum. Senators who lave been active in foreign affairs and 1 nave consulted the state department of- icials on the Cuban situation expressed he opinion that the administration lad lot ma ade any radical change in it's atti. ude, but number of them gave as heir own personal opinion that congress lad adopted vigorous measures to eno be present state of affairs. It is said hat the president will take early occa- ion to send to congress a report which Consul General Lee had submitted to be secretary of stste on the reeult of his in Cuba.
 A prominent member of the senate nmiftoo m fOroiop raiotiopo a.;I |