The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06
PLENTY OF WORK TODD
|, .,ionaI SoIons Have a Large
Amount of Business.
.rv BANKRUPTCY LAW POSSIBLE.

,.waii VIII BE Annexed Early but Cnba
..d Financial Legislation Must Wait
o.,s,on Roll To BE Shaved Some-The
n.sp waterway Project tn Also Come
nsfore This CONVERSATIONAL Savings
panks-Other Matters of Interest.
washington, Dec. 6.-With an inter-
|.,,ssion Of two weeks for the holidays,
work in the Fifty-fifth congress will
rrobably continue until May or June
Ian all the more important subjects the
prospect favors much discussion and
[uttle legislation. Less consequential
matters promise to take up the chief
attention, and the proceedings will
|doubtless be characterized by log-roll-
ing and speechmalSing. The Cuban
|haIllgerancy resolutions will command
the largest amount of popular interest
4 II will command no small portion of the
interest of the house also. The pros
lnect of it's passtge, however, is eX-
ytremely problematical, in view of the
nacific recommendations which will
doubtless be characterized in President
|McKinley's message.
Hawaii VIII BE Annexed.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty will
he submitted and unless some opposi-
ton materializes which Is not at pres
mt visible it will receive the early APP
yproval of two-thirds of the senate and
be signed by the president. Financial
legislation will be recommended by both
IxA 90 % a.
treasury. Nearly every Republican
member of congress will have from two
Ito five bills which he will be willing to
have passed in the interest of his the
ory and constituency. and which he will
defend against all corners.
With Cuba, Hawaii and finance out OF
the way, and no tariff bill to consider,
the attention Of congress will be given
20 appropriations and matters of less
general interest.
Economy Is the Order.
Economy is the order which will be
enforced in the budget for next years
Expenditures. President Mckinley has
ordered "a cut of $50, 100000 This is an
approximate figure arrived at by de-
Quoting the $50, 900, 900 received from the
Union Pacific sale from the annual de-
fct.
BY cutting expenses to this line and
Iusing the railroad money to swell the
treasury balance, 1t is believed that
next years balance sheet may show a
credit of some millions. The Union Pa
cific sale receipts have reduced the cur
rent deficit to about $32, 0O0 900. Chair
man Cannon of the appropriations COM
mittee will try to reduce the river and
harbor appropriations to a figure inside
IS 900, 000
Pensions To BE Shaved.
The pension roll is to be shaved some,
and the 200 bills providing for public
buildings will meet little encourage
ment. incidentally Corporal Tanner
claims that the pension economy is al
ready in effect, and that less pensions
have been allowed by
|H. Clay Evans than by Cleveland's
pension commissioner. An arbitration
treaty will doubtless be negotiated with
Great Britain, although little has yet
been accomplished in this direction. The
postal savings bank matter will be
pushed by a number Of senators and
representatives. A bankruptcy bill,
which will be a cross between the Hen
ferson and Nelson bills, will be re-
ported from the judiciary committee.
The impression is that it will pass.
Lodge Has His Hobby.
AS before stated in these dispatches.
Senator Lodge will try to push through
an immigration bill. There are two of
these, one in the house and one in the
senate. The house measure treats more
particularly of what are known as
birds of passage" meaning the Can
adams along the border who work in
the United States and live and spend
their money in Canada. This bill is
likely to be forced into the background
by the efforts to settle the Canadian
dispute by a commission, and the sem
ate bill, barring illiterates and anarch-
lists from European and Asiatic coun-
tries, will receive more particular at
tention.
The Deep Waterway scheme.
Among other things the deep waterway
project will come before congress,
and an effort will be made to secure
he final selection of a route. There are
many other matters of less Importance
which will engage the attention of con-
sress for days and weeks; but it is the
general opinion that the session will
be what is considered a short one. An
adjournment will be taken a few days
before Christmas and the recess will
probably last two weeks. Little of i'm
will be done until after the
holidays.