The herald., 1897-12-03
hose ability is not to be gainsaid."

whose ability Is not to be gainsaid."
The senator says that Hawaii will be
taken up before Cuba Is discussed at all;
that he is willing to follow the presidents
lead on the Cuban question; that prac-
tically currency legislation is impossible
in the senate and that the appropriations
will be kept down to the lowest point.
DINGLEY'S FORECAST
LEWISTON, Me-, Dec. 2.-The Jour-
nal this afternoon prints an interview
with Congressman Nelson Dingley, who
left for Washington today. He said:
"Inasmuch as this will be the first reg
ular session of the Fifty-fifth Congress,
and, therefore, this session Is unlimited
in length by the constitution and the
laws, 1t is difficult to forecast the dura-
tion. The business of the approaching
session will be expdited by the fact that
the House as we'll as the Senate is al
ready organized and the committees ap-
pointed, but the Senate has no means of
limiting debate, SO that it 1t always in
the power of few Senators to greatly
extend the sitting. see no reason, how
ever at present to believe that this ses-
sion will continue later than June. Prob
ably bankruptcy legislation will be the
first to come up after such appropriation
bills as may be necessary.
"The voluntary bankruptcy bill passed
by the Senate during the extra session
was referred to the House judiciary
Committee, which may be ready to re-
port it back before the Christmas re-
cess. The House will probably pass a
substitute on the lines it did two years
ago and then the two bills will go to con-
ference. Probably the conference COM
mittees Of the Senate and House will
agree upon q compromise measure which
will become a law.
eff the Senate were Republican and in
harmony with the House on monetary
questions, / should look for currency
legislation, but with free silver major
ity in the Senate, antagonistic to the
ideas of the majority Of the House as to
what constitutes a sound currency sys-
tenn, do not see how it Is possible to
secure desirable currency legislation of
an important character until the Senate
it brought to harmony with the House."
WALKERS OPINION
CHICAGO, Dec. "A special from
Washington says: Representative
Walker of Massachusetts, chairman of
the House Committee on Banking and
Currency. was asked, after visit with
the President, what hNthought Of the
prospective currency legislation. Mr..
Walker is at the head of the committee
which will have the matter in charge
and considerable significance is to be
attached to his reply, in which he said:
from my experience as chairman of
the Banking and Currency Committee
/ should say that Congress will do moth
ing on the currency question"
WHAT BAILEY THINKS
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2.-Congressman
Bailey of Texas, the leader of the Demo-
cratic side of the House, was interviewed
as he passed through en- route to Wash
ington. He doesn't think the President
Will send in message recommending
the retirement of the greenbacks and the
conversion of non-interest-b bearing
government notes into gold interest
bearing securities. "The House would
pass such a measure, but the Senate
wouldn't"
About the Morgan resolution acknowl-
edging the belligerency of Cuba, Mr..
Bailey remarked: ut all depends on
public sentiment. If it be dormant, the
House will refuse to act upon the resolu-
ton"