The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-06
IN THE SENATE.


There will be nothing except indis-
position on the part of members to
prevent the senate entering promptly
upon its work upon converting tomor-
row, as there is a calendar already
made for it, with about 80 bills reported
from committees during the special
session. If any circumstances should
prevent the receipt of the presidents
message on Monday, the probabilities
are that the senate viii adjourn over
without taking up any other business
until the message could be received.
With the message read, it will re-
main with the senate to decide as to
whether it shall seriously enter upon
the work of the session after Monday,
or begin a system of delay intended to
throw all important questions over be-
You'd the Christmas holidays. The in
dications are now for q little more ac-
tivity than usual during the pre-holi-
day session. This is largely due to the
fact that the supporters Of the admins
tration and advocates of annexation
are very anxious to secure the earliest
possible consideration with Hawaii.
HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Senator Davis, chairman of the COM
mittee on foreign relations, announces
his purpose of pressing annexation at
probable that the matter viii not be
taken up seriously until the committee
can have a meeting and decide on the
details of the procedure. The commit
tee viii be called together Wednesday
for this purpose. One point which the
committee viii be called upon to decide
IS whether to proceed to ratify the
treaty of annexation, or to annex the
islands by resolution. The annexation
a oct rAta I1r1~i he
vacation and there is now apprehen-
sion that the thirds vote necessary
to assure the ratification cannot be Sc
cured. No satisfactory canvass is pos
Sible until the senators arrive, and if
it is then made manifest that the
necessary tWO-thirdS vote cannot be
secured, it is likely that the proceeding
by means of resolution, which would
require only majority vote, will be in
augurated.
Some members of the foreign rela-
tons committee who favor annexation
advocate this course, because they say
they see no reason for travelling the
same ground twice, as they would be
compelled to do in case the matter
should be first considered in executive
session, fail there and then be taken up
in the form of a resolution in open SEN
ate and house.
IMMIGRATION.
The immigration bill, for which Sen
ator Lodge stands sponsor, is prac-
tically at the head of the senate legis-
lative calendar, and will be considered
early in the session. Senator Lodge
today repeated his intention of press
ing the bill. but he will not antagonize
the Hawaiian treaty with it.
The first bill on the calendar is Sen
ator Gears measure providing for the
adjustment of the Pacific railroad debt,
but the sale of the Union Pacific doubt
less viii have the effect of causing the
temporary withdrawal of this bill and
the substitution of others.
OF the 800 bills on the calendar, about
200 are private pension bills, and all of
these probably will be disposed of at
one sitting when taken up. There are
also several hundred recess appoint
ments to be considered in executive
session.
1t is not probable that much viii be
done in the way of legislation the pres
ent week. There will be an adjourn
ment for the day after receiving the
message on Monday, and there is no
disposition to press the Hawaiian mat
ter until the foreign relations COM
mittee agree upon a line Of action. The
indications are that it viii not be taken
up in the senate until next week.