The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-12-16
TIE PROGRAMME
Of Business in Both Houses Of Con.
gress During the Present Week.
War Against Civil Service viii BE Made in
the House-Immigratioi Isill viii i-e
Considered IN the Senate aud May i.e
Passed After Brief Debate.

Passed After a Brief Debate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-If the present
programme 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
legislative, executive and judicial and
appropriation bill. which will be
taken up on Tuesday. contains the
Regular appropriations tor the civil
service commission, and whether
or not all the members who
favor the repeal or modification of
the law. unite to strike down the pro-
vision for its main Jenance as the
quickest and most direct method OF
crippling its operation. Undoubtedly
some will advocate this course and the
whole civil service question will be
dragged into the arena of debate.
How long the debate will last it
is impossible to predict, but us
this is the only item in the
bill which will attract much
of contest, Chairman Cannon
hopes and believes the bill can be pass
ed before Saturday. This latter day,
under an order made on Thursday has
&een set aside for paying tribute to the
memory of the late represcn-
tative Cooke, of Illinois. Mon
day Chairman Hit of the tor.
eign affairs committee. will apain seek
to secure the PASSAGE of the bill to lro-
hibit pelagic sealing by citizens of the
United States. There is some very
l%trong opposition to the passage
of this measure in its present
form and the whole question
of the Behring sea negotiations
may be precipitated when it is called
up. Mr.. Hopkins, OF Illinois, and other
members favor a limitation on the
period of the operation OF the act, ii it
is to be passed. SO that in case Great
Britain refuses to restrict similarly her
citizens, our citizens may not be placed
at disadvantage Others like Mr..
johnson, of North Dakota. think the
extinguishpent of the seal herds in
the near future, is certain, and are not
disposed to favor any legislation look.
ing 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 i'm mi.
grafton bill, which stands on the cal.
endar as the unfinished business the
probable debate of the census bill, and
the pronouncing of eulogies upon the
late Representative Holman, of In.
diana. The general opinion among
friends of the measure is that there
will be no very strenuous opposition
to the immigration bill. and that it
may be passed after brief debate.
When a similar bill was before the sem
ate last session it had its principal op-
ponent in Senator Gibson, of Mary.
land, and as he has retired from the
senate the friends of the bill are hope
full that no one will be found who will
feel called upon to champion the oppo-
sition. They remember however, when
it was necessary in order to have the bill
become a law to pass it over the presi.
dents veto, the two-thirds vote requi.
site for that purpose could not be Sc.
cured. Hence, while they are hopeful
of the speedy and favorable considera-
tion of the bill, they realize the posi-,
bility of delay on account of opposing
speeches. There appears to be no rea-
son to doubt that VIII en- the vote shall
be reached the bill will pass.
BY special arrangements between
Senators Carter and Lodge, in charge
respectively of the two bills, the immi-
grafton bill will be temporarily dis
placed on Tuesday in order to give Mr..
Carter an opportunity to call up the
bill providing for the next census.
When this agreement was made on last
Thursday Senator 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 in-
augurated
The friends OF annexation on the
committee on foreign relations are
now expecting to ask the senate to
take up the treaty during the week,
though quite well aware of the impos-
sibility of securing final action before
the holidays They are decided also
upon taking the treaty up as such in.
stead of attempting to secure legisla-
ton on joint resolution. They may
postpone their request for considera'
tion until January.
The senate leaders express them-
selves as agreeable to the house pro-
gramme for adjournment for the hol.
idays on Saturday. The senate eulogies
on the late Repre- sentative Holman will
delivered on Friday.