New-York tribune., 1896-04-08
TALK OF ADJOURNMENT.
CHAIRMAN DINGLEY EXPECTS THE sEs-
SION TO END ABOUT MAY Is.
THE APPROPRIATIONS BILLS IN AN UNUSUALLY
ADVANCED sTATE-LITTLE OTHER lMfol'-
rANT BUSINESS TO COME UP
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Washington. April 7.-"Uness some entirely new
and unexpected obstacle Is encountered eApeo.
that Congress will adjourn sine die on or aoou,
May 15" said Chairman Dingey OF the ways anu anu
Means Committee, in conversation with Tribune
co,resnondent to-day He does not regard the pros
meet OF any action by the Senate on the Dill 10
amend the Customs Administrative ACT as 'aVoi-
able and this opinion Is shared by others WI" nav"
made inauirles the subject IL appears ''ii' "'
oppostion has been shown by importers sHc' Wv
hin reached the Senate than was the case when II
- ,o,d,,. IN tho Ways and Means Committee or
IN tho Uouse OF Representatives. At that time 'hc
importers with few and unmportah' eNoep''o'i9
rrofessed not only to be satisiied WIN 'He ''"
but anxious to have II enacted INTO law vi N'
II this bill is not 10 be considered Dy l'e oe", w
Finance Committee will have no business Whatever
before 1t 10 act as an ops'ao'c ~ " '
ment -, -, pooro
The Judiciary Committee OF the House oi i'ei"s ~
.1,,,t,ves which has been holding daily SESSIONS
and hearing suggestions on the SUBJECT VIII P'oD
-, r.nor, a Bankruptcy bill this week III Is e"-
nec,ed that a minority Of the committee WI" P'o
- as q substitute for the bill offered by the ma
,ortv one providing for voluntary system oi
bankruptcy proceedings. and that poth propoSi"o"
will be submitted at the same Time '''a.' '''''
henderson said to-day that the committee "opeu
and expected TO secure the passage oi d D'' 80,
h close OF the session. and that there were ihn'c"
tions that the Senate was a'so ' "
of the question at this SESSION. ,,- 49,,
The status of the general appropriations oii'e " "'
usuaIlv favorable to an early Adjournment anu
Cha,rman Dngley. who has investigated inc SUD-
Goo, is NJ the opinion that the last one VIII nave
hecn passed by the House before April ~ rour oi
The hills have already become laws-the army III.
D,nomatic and Consular. the Military Academy ana
tho Pension bills The Agricultural ana the Heea
Iat,ve Executive and Judicial bills have passsu o1 S
hnnses and are I'm conference. Ihe fostonod d 10 10
Ind the Indian bill have passed the hous&r ~ % Wa,,a
Tormer was passed by the Senate to-day t tfnrse
hji, and the Sundry Civil bill have passed tie on
ond have been referred TO the Senate C0h,,,y ,,y ho
Anoropraions and the River ana harDoI n,r,ci p''s
nassed the House il Is expected that ,he ~, ,ha
Of Columbia bill. which was recommittsa 1 ~ he he
House Committee Appropriations aiIeI a.
Items except those relating TO chaftaDie ~ nd
had been disposed Of Will be brought prn III, he
passed this week There will then remain @ ol,,' Iii
Fortifications bill and the General Dencency cyhin hin
one OF which will be reported to the HOUSE "
the week. ,<u. Tho, Chair
II is altogether probable therefore, tnat ~ mnn
man Dineley's expectation that the last o! t"9
eral appropriations bills will have passed S iS Ill
before April rs will be realized. The fhsii'e rae ,nit Mi
road refnd,ng bill. framed by JOINT SUP ~ Gen
tee OF the Pacific Railroad committees OF ,iIe ,vna
and House respectively, has been pu' rds ~, pof
and will receive early consideration at ,ne 10 aa cure
the two full committees. The FRIENDS OF , tne M than
hopeful OF legislation at tn's t trouble-
before. and II begins TO seem as II .re ,nanner
some subject might be.disposed OF ~ some i'~'"''