Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-01-27

S7if of grinding out bills
| SC is in operation. over
ISz7T& 5.4SS bills and lOi
| EMEf ~ ~ Joint resolutions have
| DHN :I:A been referred to the
-'fnsS-wz-Tss House committees,
*1ITflEsESm and 2.91S bills and -
tllllEE .4.9z zas1e Joint resolutions to
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+ r. the Senate. They carry G2.OOO,0 oo.
| Eleven others are to follow. Ihese APP
| propriation bills are the essential OF leg
| ;slation Without them the Government
| is blocked. When the differences concern
| ing them have been settled by conference
| committees, and they have passed oo1h
| houses and received the signature OF the
President. Congress will be ready to ad-
| journ.
1t is evidently the intention of the lead
| ers in the House to scale the general APP
| preparation bills as closely as possible, ana
to force an adjournment at an early date.
| Under the rules other bills carrying ap-
propriat tons can be buried without allow
| ing them to come before the House. An
| appropriation bill is privileged measure,
| and it is frequently used to shunt oHen-
| sive legislation from the track. 1t mas
| the right of way at all times, except When
confronted by Il contested election case
or by special order from the Committee
on Rules. An appropriation bill can
switch a contested election case from the
track at any time by Il vote of the House.
but it requires unanimous consent TO set
aside special order after 1t has once
been sanctioned by the House.
Bearing this in mind, the question OF the
annexation of Hawaii becomes interest
ing. If the Senate fails to ratify the
treaty by two-thirds vote, bill pro-
viding for it's annexation will undoubted-
ly pass that body. If the leaders OF the
House are opposed to such a bill they can
easily prevent it's consideration by the
House. 1t may be buried in the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs; and If reported
from that committee, there is no way III
which the House can consider it, except
by special order from the Committee
on Rules.
The Cuban question is in a similar sit
uation. The House is held up by an ap-
plicaton Of it's own rules. If three-quar-
tiers of the members favor the recognition
of Cuba, they would have no opportu-
nifty to vote for it. The Senate resolu-
ton is still buried in the House Commit
tee ON Foreign Affairs If this commit
tee should report it favorably to the
House it is in the condition Of Lord Low
ellis wife, who jumped into a box that
closed with a spring. 1t could not come
up for consideration without the usual
special order. Once on the calendar, it
might be called up on suspension day, pro-
vided the Speaker would consent to rec
ognize member of the committee for
this purpose. Then a two-thirds vote
would pass it.
Bankruptcy and Currency.
There is much talk about a bankruptcy
bill. The Committee Oh the judiciary has
reported bill practically the same as the
Torrey bill. Gen. Henderson OF. Iowa is
the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
He is also member of the Committee on
Rules The bill will probably be brought
before the House by a special order. If
this is done the friends of the Nelson bill
Guided by the terms of the special order
another spring in the box. At all events,
it seems safe to say that if the House
passes any bankruptcy sill whatever this
season it will be the bill reported from
Gen. Henderson's committee. There is
no probability, however, that such bill
will pass the Senate. 1t can be amended
in that body so as to make it entirely un-
IN To- +Lo
The differences between the two bodies
are apparently so great that they cannot
be settled in conference.
The same is true Of Il financial or a cur
rency bill. Men of experience in both
houses agree that there is no probability
of the passage Of any such measure this
session. If necessary, the appropriation
bills may be used to send them awry. At
all events, there will be no Sabine assimi-
lation. The situation was APPLY descrb-
ed by Senator Thomas II. Carter of Mon
tana, who said that to ask the Senate to
pass financial bill based Oh the plan of
the monetary commission would be like
squirting water against the Wind
The Committee on Rivers and Harbors
is in session and giving hearings to those
interested in such appropriations. 1t is
clear that an effort to pass a river and
harbor appropriation bill will be made be-
fore the end of the session. Such a bill
has the same privilege, under the rules,
as the other appropriation bills, and is
usually SO framed that it can pass the
House by a two-thirds vote on suspension
day, without debate. This was the case
i'll the last House, and this House is equal
ly. as eager on the question of internal i'm
provements.
Another bill of Importance is what is
known as the anti-scalping BILL 1t was
brought before the House in the last Com
gress under special order from the Com
mittec on Rules. In the Eifty-f fourth
Congress it was put to sleep in the Senate.
It's opponents had the benefit Of the short
session. when appropriation bills were
crowding each other to the wall. They