Arizona republican., 1896-11-20
TO KEEP WHEELS IN MOTION.
Government Wants More ReVe-
 nue for That Purpose.
Many Important Measures Call for Attention and Congress Will Be Very Busy at the Coming Session Calendars Crowded.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-The com ing session of congress ought to be and probably will be an exceedingly busy one. When congress adjourned in June there was vast amount of un- finished business on it's calendars. The house of representatives had been in dustrious, and had sent to the senate a number of important bills before the latter body was stricken by legislative paralysis, and it became evident that little or nothing in the way of bene- ficial legislation was to be expected from it. Even that consideration did not deter the house committees, which continued their work until near the end of the session, and reported num- Der of important measures upon which favorable action is expected early this winter.
 Among the bills passed by the house were the Dingley revenue bill, which 1t was estimated, would add 80, ,000,0D0 to $40,000, ,000 year to the income of the government; the bill to protect the gold reserve and provide for tempo rary deficiencies of revenue by the is- sue of $50,000,000 certificates of in- debtedness; the bill to amend the cus- toms administrative act, which it was estimated would add about $10.0OC, 900 d year to the income of the govern ment; the bill to provide a uniform system of bankruptcy proceedings; the 1 bill further to regulate and restrict immigration; the bill to simplify and make more equitable the administra- l tion of the general pension laws, and a number of other important measures upon which the senate took no action or acted adversely
 | Upon the calendar of the house when congress adjourned were such import ant bills, which had been favorably re- ported from committees, as the bill to refund the indebtedness of the Pacific railroads, the bill for a submarine cable between the United States and | Hawaii, Japan and China; the Nica- ragua canal bill, the bill to increase the l efficiency of the naval reserve, the army reorganization bill, the bill to | abolish the reciprocal tonnage tax,
 which would save the government l about S15O,0O0 year; the per diem pension bill, the bill to amend the copy right law, several bills relating to the postal service and employees therein, and large number of other import ant measures.
 It is probable that a considerable number of these bills would have been
 passed by the house before the ad-
 journment of congress if the senate
 had not been in state of suspended
 animation, so to speak, which pre- lcluded the hope of any action by that
 body. What the coming session has
 in store remains to be seen. It is evil dent, however, that active and indus trious as the senate may be, it will not
 be possible for it, in session lasting
 only ten weeks, exclusive of Sundays
 and holidays, to deal properly with tall the measures that have already been
 brought before it by the house of rep lresentatives and by it's own committees.
 Of course, the matter which forces
 itself to the front and which arrests
 the attention of the country, is the
 necessity of providing additional rev. enue for the support of the govern
 ment, and if the senate undertakes to
 deal with that question it will find time
 to consider other important measures
 besides the general appropriation bills