The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-07
THE NATIONAL LAW HOPPER
WILL BEGIN TO RECElYE ITS CREST
 OF BILLS TO-DAY.

Reconvening of CongTess-ImmigratiOn
 Restriction Bill Calls for First Consider
 ation in the senate--Appropriation Bills
 Two New Members to be Sworn in in
 the House-General Pension Bill.
 Washington, Dec. 6-It is not likely anything will be done in either house ulations or condolences, as the case may be, over the results of the cleo tions, and listen to the presidents mes sage. When the last session closed the house immigration bill had, and now has, the right of way in the senate. It is the unfinished business and will be called up at the expiration of the morning hour, Although known as the house bill on the calendar, as reported to the senate by MT. Lodge, it is a ma- terially different measure, all of the house provisions having been stricken out except the enacting clause, and new bill substituted. This bill will be called up on Tuesday by Senators Lodge and Chandler, who desire to. push it to vote as quickly as possi- ble.
 As the bill came from the house it provided not only for the exclusion of immigrants who could not fill the edu- cational test, but went at some length into the regulation of alien contract labor. Mr. Lodges substitute provides for an educational test and excludes all persons over fourteen years of age. who cannot read and write the language of their native country or some other lan- guage, except that an aged person not so able, who is a parent or grandpar- ent of an admissible emigrant may ac- company or be sent by such immigrant.
 For the purpose of testing the ability of the immigrant to read and write a citation of five lines from the consti- tuition of the United States is to be used, printed in various languages of the immigrants, is in good sized type known as double small pica." The constitution thus cut into five line slips, forms a. lottery from which the immi grant, having designated the language in which he prefers the test to be made, draws at random, reads and writes down what he has read. Failure to comply with this test means deporta- tion to the country whence the immi grant came, at the expense of the steamship company carrying him.
 An effort will be made to secure new dates for the consideration of special orders that were not reached during the last session. These measures now coming under this head are senate bill n3o t;>r, op the national flag; house bill to amend the act to prevent the extermination of fur bearing animals of Alaska; house bill SIS to reduce the cases in which the penalty of death may be inflicted, and senate joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution pro- viding for the election of senators by popular vote.
 An important local bill on which there has developed a bitter fight is the Detroit bridge bill for bridge across the Detroit river. It was post poned at the last session until the first Monday in December.
 In addition to the appropriation bills there are several measures that will contend with each other for the right of way. Prominent among these are the bills to refund the Pacific railroad debt; to admit the territories of New Mexico and Arizona; authorizing the secretary of the navy to enlist addi- tional men, now pending in the senate on a motion to reconsider the vote by which it was passed; MT. Davis reso- lution relative to the assertion and en- forcement of the Monroe doctrine; a bill to facilitate the construction of a cable between this country and Ha- waii; providing for a uniform classifi- cation and grading of agricultural pro- ducts and one providing for the re- organization of the consular and diplo- matic service.
 In the house of representatives there will be the swearing in of two new members to first engage the attention of Speaker Reed and the house-Messr Boatner of Louisiana and Stokes of South Carolina. These gentlemen enjoy the very unusual distinction of hay ing twice received certificates of elec- tion to one congress. At the last ses- sion their seats were declared vacant, but contestants did not succeed in es- tablishing their right thereto and new
 
 adjourned another vacancy has oc- curred-that occasioned by the death of ex-Speaker Crisp. His son, who was his fathers clerk, has been nominated to fill the unexpired term, but the elec- tion will not be held until the 16th inst. The death of the late speaker will prob- ably be announced by one of his for mer colleagues and after the reading of the presidents message the house will adjourn.
 MT. Blue, chairman of the sub-com- mittee of the committee on appropria- tions, will report the general pension bill to the house and set a day for it's consideration. This will doubtlessly be early in the week. The rules provide that all business on the calendar shall retain its place throughout an entire congress, so that adjournment from one session to another means no more than adjournment from day to day.
 The program of business for the first week of the session will depend upon the developments from day to day of committee action and recommendation. Before the week closes however, the legislative executive and judicial bill will be reported and placed on the cal endar and on Friday night there will be the usual session for the consideration of private pension bills.