Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-10

Opening cf CONG rcss Not Ac-
~ companied blythe Usual
s5 Excitement.
ilouse, Org n;z q at the Extra
sessic j Positions
Ar. .Icd.
Intention of Leaders Is to Push
\: Business as Rapidly as
4 Possible. .l .ss n.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.-The regular
Or long session Of congress as it il
called, because there is no coustitu.
t,onal limitation upon the period Of ita
duration, opened at neon. The extra
session robbed the opening of the regu.
lar session of the excitement and inter.
est which usually attaches to it. AT
the opening of o regular session or.
d uarily Washington thrills with CT.
cliement. The hotel lcbbies surge with
place hunters in the wake Of the vari.
o s candidates fer speaker, clerk, door.
keeper, etc, the members are s,rug.
g..ng for committee assignments and
the air is 1ull OF runlors and plots and
counterplots. But us the house was
completely orga nized ut the extra ses-
sion and all the committee; assignments
were made then Washington is now
tranquil a., Il. n
House Will Push Rusiness. 49,
1t is the intention of the house lead.
ers to proceed with the business Of the
session as rapidly as possible The
committees will all leg:n their labors
this week and as all Of them have more
or less bills on hand which were intro.
duced at the extra. session. there will be
no lack of material for the house to
work on after the committee hoppers
have begun to grind. The appropria.
tiols committee has been at work for 10
days and Chairman Cannon expects to
pass at least two Of the regular budgets
before the holidays-the legislative,
executive and Judicial and the pension
appropriation bills. Among the early
general measures to receive considera-
ton will be the bankruptcy bill.
Whether it will be the Nelson bill,
which passed the senate at the last ses.
sion OF modification Of the Torrey
bill, depends on the temper of the.
judiciary committee, which will submit
the measure TO the house. e ( H..
Annexation n the Senate. ~ 20.
There will lie nothing except indis.
position Oh the part Of mem bers to pre-
vent tho senate's entering promptly
upon it's work, as there is calendar
already made for it with. about 800 bills
reported from committees during the
special session. The indications are
now Tor little more activity than usual
during the pre.holiday session. This is
largely due to tie tact that the sup
porters Of the administration and advo-
Gates Of annexation are very anxious to
secure the earliest possible considera-
tion Of the treaty with Hawaii. Sena.
tor Davis, chairman of the committee
on foreign relations, announces his pur.
pose Of pressing annexation at the
earliest possible moment, but it is prob
able that the matter will not be- taken
up seriously until the committee can
have meeting and decide upon details
of procedure. -..g..
Lack Of Votes Apprehended.
One point which the committee will
be called upon to decide is whether to
proceed to ratify the treaty Of annexa.
tion or to annex the islands by resblu.
ton. The annexationists have lost
some votes during the vacation and
there is now apprehension that the two
thirds vote necessary 10 assure the rati-
fcation cannot be secured. No salts.
factory canvass is possible until all
the senator's arrive, and if it is
then made manifest that the nee
essary two-t thirds vote cannot be
secured it is likely that the proceeding
by means Of resolution, which would
require only majority vote, will be
inaugurated.
The immigration bill, for which Sem
ator Lodge stands sponsor, is practically
ut the head OF the senate legislative
calendar and will te considered early in
the session. Senator Lodge repeats his
intention of pressing the bill, but he
vii! not antagonize the Ha waiian treaty
with it. n