The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-12-13
THE WDEK IN CONGRESS-
Adjournment Forthe Holiday Recess
on Saturday Next.
WARAGAINsT THE OWL SERVICE
1t Is Believed the Contest VIII Be
Formally Ipaugurated This Week In
the Debate Over the Appropriation
For the Commission.

II ~ DeIlcFcu tHe SoHleSC VIII DO
Formally Inaugurated This Week In
the Debate Over the Appropriation
For the Commission.
Washington, Dec. 13.-If the present
program is carried out congress will
adjourn for the holiday recess next
Saturday. The week in the house
promises to be made memorable by the
formal Inauguration of the war against
the civil service law. The executive.
legislative and judicial appropriation
bill, which will be taken up tomorrow,
contains the regular appropriations for
the civk%service commission, and
whether or not all the members who
favor the repeal or modification of the
law unite to stick down the provision
for its maintenance as the quickest
and most direct method of Gripping its
operation, undoubtedly some will ad-
vocate this course and the whole civil
service question will be dragged into
the arena Of debate. How long this
debate will last 1t Is impossible to pre-
dict, but as this is the only item in the
bill which attracts much of a contest
Chairman Cannon hopes and believes
the bill can be passed before Saturday.
Today Chairman Hit, of the foreign
affairs committee, will again seek to
secure the passage of the bill to pro-
hibit pelagic sealing by the citizens OF
the United States. There is some very
strong opposition to the passage of
this measure in its present form, and
the whole question Of the Bering sea
inf ho tod Mr.
Hopkins of Illinois, and other men,
bers favor a limitation on the period
of operation of the act, if it is to be
passed, so that in case Great Britain
refuses to similarly restrict her citi-
zens our citizens may not be placed
at a disadvantage. Others, like Mr..
johnson, of North Dakota think that
eXtinguishment Of the seal herds in the
near future is certain, and are not dis
posed to favor any legislation looking
to their preservation.
The work of the senate so far as it
has been mapped out for the week in
cludes the consideration of the mmi-
grafton bill, which stands on the cal
endar as the unfinished business, the
probable debate of the census bill and
the pronouncing of eulcgies upon the
late Representative Holman, of Indi-
ana.
The general opinion among friends of
the measure IS that there will be no
very strenuous opposition to the i'm
migration bill. and that it may be
passed after a brief debate. When a
similar bill was before the senate last
session it had its principal opponent
in Senator Gibson, of Maryland, AM
as he has retired from the senate the
friends Of the bill are hopeful that no
one can be found who will feel called
upon to champion the opposition. They
rcmernber, however, that when 1t was
necessary in order to have the bill be-
come a law to pass it over the presi-
dents veto the two-thirds vote requisite
for that purpose could not be secured.
Hence, while they are hopeful of the
speedy and favorable consideration Of
the BILL they realize the possibility
of delay on account of opposing speech
es. There appears to be no reason to
doubt that when the vote shall be
reached the bill will pass.
BY special arrangement between Sen~,s 4
ators Carter and Lodge, in charge, Ns4s
grafton bill will be temporarily dis
placed tomorrow in order to give Mr..
Garter an opportunity to call up the |
Lill providing for the next census. |
When this agreement was made Sena-
tor Carter expressed the opinion that |
very brief debate would be necessary |
to get the bill through, but there are
now some indications that the civil |
service question will be raised in this |
connection, and If it should prolonged
debate may be inaugurated.
The friends of annexation on the
committee on foreign relations are now
expected to ask the senate to take up
the treaty during the week, though
quite we'll aware Of the iinpossbilty
OF securing final action before the holi-
days. They are decided also upon
taking the treaty up as such, instead |
of attempting to secure legislation on a
joint resolution. They may postpone
their request for consideration until