The herald., 1896-06-08
An Early Adjournment Not En-.
tirely Certain
SHIPS AND INDIAN SCHOOLS
Are Matters Upon Which Agreement Is
Not Likely
One Sssatss's Objection viii d suffieisnt to
Prsiesg the Session TIM After the
%. Lsuls Cenvsntion

.WASHINGYON, June 1.-Wnetner the
senate shall be able to conclude the
work of the session this week will prob
ably depend upon whether q quorum can
be maintained. Some senators are op-
posed to the passage Of the new general
deficiency bill with the French spoliation
clause ana the store and supply claims
allowed under the Bowman act omitted.
Senator Harris makes no secret OF his
Intention to demand the restoration OF
these items to the bill, and says he will
not consent to its passage without them
except upon q yea and nay vote. II he
insists upon this O voting quorum will
be necessary. Several senators have an
nounced their purpose of leaving the
city early in the week and many others
will depart about the middle of the week
Tor st. Louis. Under these circumstances
It II possible that adjournment may be
postponed until the Republican cOnven-
fion, although there will be q very gen.
eral effort to prevent this. The other
appropriation bills which have not been
finally disposed Of are the Indian, Dis
trict Of Columbia, the sundry civil and
the postoffice.
IN THE HOUSE
The house managers have parliament
ary machinery in operation which will
enable them to secure prompt action on
every proposition submitted by the con-
ferees on the nve remaining appropria-
tion bills, looking to an adjustment of the
differences between the two houses. In
stead Of adjourning last night, the house
took q recess until 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning. That action continues the
legislative day Of Saturday, which by q
special order adopted on Friday was
made q suspension day, and will enable
the house to vote on any proposition
after twenty minutes debate. The diff
ferences between the two houses on the
four supply bills (the sundry civil. naval,
Indian and District of Columbia) are
radical, but by mutual concessions the
house leaders believe the differences can
be adjusted so as to permit an adjourn
n.ent Tuesday or Wednesday.
In the sundry civil bill the house has
thus far persistently refused to accept
the amendments for public buildings at
the capitals Of Utah, Wyoming. Idaho
and Montana and the additions for the
public buildings at Kansas City. Savan-
nah, Ga, and Camden, N. ].
In the naval bill the house has re-
mained equally firm on its insistence on
four battleships and $425 per ton as the
maximum cost Of armor plate.
To both Of these items the senate has
declined to agree and yesterday refused
q compromise The senate insists on two
battleships and q reduction Of armor
plate to $50 per ton.
In the Indian bill, which II has no less
than four times voted for the imme-
diate termination of appropriations for
sectarian Indian schools as against the
senate's proposition to allow them to
run until 1898, the house yesterday de-
clined to accept as q compromise their
termination in 1897. This same question
figures in the differences between the
two houses on the items in the District
Of Columbia bill relating to sectarian
charities. Another troublesome question
in the Indian bill is the appropriation for
the payment Of the attorneys of the Old
Settlers association. The senate has de-
clined a compromise on this question,
which would postpone the payment of
the claims. Further legislative action
will be had at the next session. On the
question of sectarian schools 1t does not
seem possible that the house can be In
duced to yield. The probabilities are
that the other items will be compromised,
saving and excepting the public build
ings items In the sundry civil bill, which
1t seems likely the senate will eventually
abandon. The main difficulty in the way
OF an adjournment by the middle of the
week seems to lie at the senate end of
the capitol, where a single senator can
obstruct matters II he chooses until the
quorum fails, or until all chances Of a
sine die adjournment before the ST. Louis
convention will disappear. An intense
desire Of members at both ends of the
capitol to get away, however, will do
much toward inducing those who are
disposed to raise factious opposition to
yield their individual desires to accom-
pllsh this result 1t is positive that IL
Senator Harris and others who are rep
resented as insisting on the restoration
OF the southern war claims in the new
general deficiency bill should carry their
obstruction tactics too far, the leaders
at both ends of the capitol might decide
to allow the bill to fail altogether
in order to bring about the coveted ad-
tournament While the failure of this bill
might embarrass the government, it
would not stop all Of the government
machinery.