The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-07
WASHINGTON TOPICS
This Weeks Legislation Outlined In
Both Houses.
PUBLIC LANDS SALES
PUBLIC
lands SALES
BILL ON THIS
MATTER MAY COME UP.
Relief of Maine Sufferers
Bill-District of Columbia Today
In House-Election Contest-Ex-
element In City Over Spanish
News-Capital Topics.

Washington, March 6.-The senate
will, in all probability. begin the week
with the consideration of the bill max
ing appropriation for the District of
Columbia, and when this is completed
will take VI the conference report on
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, which has been
agreed upon and will be made to the
senate tomorrow. 1t is considered quite
probable that the District bill will con-
sumo two or three days or even more
One of the questions in this bill which
may arouse debate is the action of the
senate committee on appropriations in
striking out the item in the bill as IT
came from the house limiting telephone
charges in the district. There will be an
effort to restore this proviso.
SALES OF PUBLIC LAND.
The census bill, the Methodist book
agent bill and Senator Pettigrew's bill
donating 3 per cent of the proceeds of
sales of public lands TO the various
states in which the lands are located
will contend for the right of way when
there are no appropriation bills TO re-
ceive attention, and it is as yet uncer-
tain which item will be first taken up
All of these may be antagoniZed by
the Hawaiian annexation treaty, but
the plans of the foreign relations COM
mittee with reference to the treaty are
so far too indefinite to permit any pre-
dict;oS as to what it will do.
HOUSE PROGRAMME.
It is probable that both the bill for
the relief of the survivors and the vic
tins Of the Maine disaster, and the
senate bill creating two additional reg.
iments Of artillery with which to man
the coast defenses viii pass the house
this week. The former bill was held
up until it could be investigated, as it
was said that the special bill for the
relief Of the survivors and victims of
the Samoan wreck in 1883 led to some
scandal. That bill was loosely drawn,
and it has been asserted some adj
vantage of its provisions was taken
The present bill has been carefully
drawn and is now satisfactory to Mr.
Cannon, chairman of the committee on
appropriations.
ARTILLERY BILL.
Practically all opposition to the ar
tillery bill has now disappeared in the
house. The leaders were, it is said, in
favor of delaying action upon 1t 10 al
lay public alarm, which might have
been intensified had it been rushed
through the house as it was through
the senate. Beyond action on these Two
measures, the house programme this
week, so far as is now anticipated, Is
entirely peaceful and has no reference
to possible foreign complications.
DISTRICT DAY.
Tomorrow is District of Columbia
day, and Friday, by special order, has
been set aside for the consideration of
the Bowman act claims bill. The
Thorpe-Eppes contested election case
Will occupy two, possibly three days,
and such time as remains will probably
be consumed in the consideration of the
postoffice appropriation bill. which is
expected to be ready by Wednesday.
Any unlocked for development in the
Spanish situation might change the
programme