The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-15
lively DAYS 10 COME
Congress Has Only Two Weeks to
Complete Business Of Session.
Everything to Be Displaced By
Appropriation Bills.
Anslo.Amsrlcaa Arbitration Treaty WIN b
Lsfi For Extra Session.

II believed, will see the last Of the gen.
eral arbitration treaty for the present
session. Senators will continue to dis
cuss 1t for couple OF executive sessions,
and then by common consent II will be
permitted to go over until the next ses-
sion. beginning March 5. 49,, ,..,.,...,..,
Mr.. Sherman, who Is foremost in the
efforts to secure ratification, is con-
vinced that the treaty cannot be ratified
at the present session. and that 1t Is only
a waste of time to further discuss II now.
besides which the. appropriation bills
must be disposed Of. and the time is ex-
tIemely short.
Although the house has disposed of 10
Of the 13 regular appropriation bills. two
of the three which remain, the sundry
civil and the general deficiency, are
those. containing the !, miscellaneous
items. which provoke the most bitter op-
position, both for their sins OF omis-
sion and commission. 1t is into these
two bills that the members seek to crowd
appropriations which have been pigeon
holed through the session, and heroic
measures are sometimes required to pre-
vent them from being made the ve-
hicle Of carrying through appropriations
resolved to kill. -
The senate has usually made prac-
tice, Of loading up these two bills espe-
cially, and the contests between the two
houses over them are generally pro-
longeds until almost the hour OF final
adjournment. The refusal Of those in
control Of legislation in the house to give
/ time for the consideration Of public
building lbills.s more than 100 of which
have been favorably- reported by the
committee, 30 angered some of the
members: that they talked Of trying to
secure these appropriations In the sun
dry civil bill. Those who are interested
In the river and harbor projects au--
thorfzed by the last river and harbor
BILL. for which no provision is made in
the sundry civil bill dncluding Whining
ton, Del, Kentucky river. dams and 8
OF the Ohio, Oakland, Cal, and Yakima.
Wash.). are bristling with fight. The
friends OF the free home bill, as amended
by the senate, would like to saddle this
measure also on the sundry civil bill, as
the only means of resurrecting 1t.
/ There are other antagonisms But the
opposition is utterly unorganized and il
has been decided by Speaker Reed and
Mr.. Canonn, who are working like Tro
jams to keep down the appropriations.
to try coup by which they expect to
take advantage Of the fact that today
is suspension day, and put through the
Dill under suspension ofthe rules. The
general debate on the measure closed
saturday. and, II the bill can be passed
today. under suspension. 1t will not only
save the three to Ave days (which it
would require to consider it Under the
fve-minute rule), but IL would cut off the
danger OF amendments carrying large
sums to which ii would be subject n
the members succeeded in efrecting a
log-rolling combination.
Acting on the supposition that the b,,,
VIII be passed today under suspension
the leaders have decided to give this
and tomorrow evenings for private pen-
sion legislation. The three remaining
contested election cases will occupy the
time until the naval appropriation bill
is brought forward toward the close of
the week
AS the session draws to a close par
usanship is cropping out. as it did SAT-
urday, and there will probably be some
very lively debate. The preparation of
the general deficiency bill will be begun
TO-DAY, and be ready early next week
Inc crowding toward the close will BIZ
greatly relieved by the rule which
makes the last six lays of the session
suspension days. This Will enable those
In charge Of the imperative bills and
conference reports to secure a direct
vote on any proposition with but 20 min
utes' debate on a side.
AS much OF the present week as NAV
be necessary. will he given up to the
consideration of appropriation bills by
the senate. There has been no accum-
ulation OF these bills on the calendar
and with only little more than two
weeks or the session remaining, IL Is
not intended, by the senate managers.
that there should be- They will insist
that the appropriations shall take pre-
'cedence whenever they are ready to
proceed. The only appropriation bill
now on the calendar is that providing
Ior the expenses Of the Indian service,
out IL is expected that the conference
report on the legislative, executive and
JudiciaI, VIII be presented today. and
that the bills making appropriations
for the District of Columbia and FORTH
ications VIII soon follow. 1t is the pur-
pose OF Senator Pettingrew, who has
| ~''e' o. VI sHS ihuidI Olti, tO call i I'D
tomorrow. 1t is expected that several
provisions in the bill will lead to an an
imated debate, notably those providing
for the introduction of radical reforms
fin Indian Territory and for the dispo-
sition OF the unallotted lands in the
Uncompahgre reservation in Utah.
These are the questions which have been
before the senate in various forms on
several occasions, and they have al
ways excited more or less debate. The
legislative bill will not consume much
time, for the reason that the house
conferees have conceded most Of the
senate amendments.
1t is impossible to say how much of
the senate's time during the week will
be given up to the consideration Of the
arbitration treaty In executive session.
but all the indications are unfavorable
TO any prolonged discussion on the sub
feet. and the chances now seem to be
that not to exceed one or two more ses-
sions will be devoted TO IL. IL is barely
possible that II may not be taken up
again At all. but the probabilities are
that ttvill, some time during the week,