Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-05-19
IN CONGRESS.
Programme of the Business to
Be Considered This Week.
The Fortiications Bill Will Be Called
Up in the Senate.
Committee on ImmigratIons' Bill to Be
Brought Up-Committee on Labor VIII
Receive q Day-Committee on Tex
ritories VIII BE Allowed n Day.

WASHINGTON, May 1s.-The pro
gramme of business in the house of
representatives depends largely upon
the developments from day to day so
that forecast for the week, especially
of the order in which measures shall
be considered, cannot be given. Mon
day, under the rules, will be suspension
day, and Mr.. Dalzell rep, Pa
will ask for the committee on
ways and means the passage of the bill
which is known as the package bill "
This provides that packages Of import
ed merchandise, weighing less than 100
pounds and valued at less than $500
may be transported in bond over the
Canadian railroads to destination.
After the house has disposed of mo-
tions to pass bills by suspension of the
rules, it will probably be given to the
committee on immigration for the con-
sideration of bills reported by it. This
committee will probably have Tues
days session. 1t will present the Nc
Call bill to regulate immigration from
Europe, and the Corliss and Mahany
bills intended to relieve the cities on
the Canadian border of the competition
of labor from Canada which does not
find an abiding place in the United
States
The committee on rules are inclined
to give the committee on labor day
for the Phillips commission bill and
the Erdman arbitration bill, the latter
embodying the proposition of the then
Attorney General Olney, passed at the
| last session of congress, and which it is
understood the labor organizations
have approved. The Phillips bill ap-
propriates S5Oo,OOO to enable n COM
mis- sion to make an exhaustive investi-
cation into the relations between labor
and capital
Another day will be allotted to the
committee on territories, which wants
| the house to consider the New Mexico
bond bill las amended in the senate),
and the bill to protect the salmon
fisheries in Alaska.
Should there then remain any time
at the disposal of the committee on
rules, it will be devoted to the consid-
Grafton of the contested cases on the
calendar.
The appropriation committee intend
to keep the senate hard at work on ap-
priation bills during all OF that week.
The District of Columbia bill is now
the unfinished business and it is be-
lievcd that this will consume the better
part of three days. Especially is this
true if the subject of appropriations
for the various charities precipitates a
debate at all like that in the house.
The Notifications bill.will come ur
next 1t will be reported to the senate
Monday. Considerable of an increase
is understood to have been made to this
bill. When this comes up Mr.. German
will offer an amendment, providing for
an issue of O,00O, 900 or 100000, 600 OF
low interest bearing certificates and
will make another speech bearing upon
the financial condition of the country
in connection with the appropriations
that are being made. This certificate
amended will in all probability cause a
discussion that will run over two or
three days, but it will not be permitted
to indefinitely postpone the final vote
on the appropriation bill.