The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-09

it will probably consume the greater
| portion Of the day.
! Tuesday Senator Mason Will discuss
briefly his resolution in opposition tC
this country's asserting sovereignty
J over Cuba and the Philippines, taking
strong grounds for the independence OF
i the people of those islands.
Senator Morgan will make an effort
early in the week, to get. the senate to
name g. date for taking a vote upon MS
bill for the construction Of the Nicara-
qua canal, and whether he succeeds or
not will press the bill as continuously
upon the attention of the senate as cir
cumstances viii permit Unanimous
consent is necessary to the fixing of a
time for a vote, and it is not probable
that this viii be secured for some time
to come.
It is the expectation that the peace
treaty will be reported on Wednesday,
and also that some of the appropria-
ton bills now in the hands Of the com
mittee on appropriations Will be
brought in towards the close of the
week. Immediate consideration will be
asked for the appropriation bills, but it
is possible that the beginning of the
debate upon the treaty may be post
poned until next week. There is an
effort on foot among the opponents of
the treaty to have it discussed in open
session, but the Indications are against
such course
HOUSE PROGRAMME.
The time of the house will be fully
occupied from this time forward until
the conclusion of the session. Appro-
priation bills, which are already in an
unusually advanced stage, are to be
kept to the fore, but there is a good
deal of other important legislation
which will press for consideration at
every opportunity.
Perhaps the most important single
measure is the bill for the re-organiza-
ton of the army. 1t was the general
understanding before the recess that
this bill would be given consideration
Immediately after the holidays, but the
illness of Chairman Hull of the mill
tary affairs committee will delay this
measure until he is sufficiently re-
covered to attend the sessions of the
house. His illness will also delay the
military academy and army appropria-
ton bills.
Meantime, the friends of the navy
personnel bill are pushing for it's con-
sideration and the rules committee may
give day to it during the present
week. The bill represents a complete
agreement between the line and the
staff. These two branches of the serV-
ice nave been at war for many years,
but now they have at last got together
and agreed upon a measure, its pas
sage, once it gets to a vote. is assured.
The only opposition to it is likely to
arise from the fact that the orsaniza-
ton it contemplates involves an adj
charge on the treasury Of sew
eral hundred thousand dollars.
The final vote on the legislative !
executive and judicial appropriation !
bill viii take place tomorrow. The OPP !
ponents of the civil service law sue
ceeded in striking from the bill, While |
the house was in committee of the |
whole, the appropriation for the main |
-enance of the commission. But tomor- |
row when the vote is taken in the |
house, where members are obliged to
30 on record, there is little doubt but /
hat the appropriation will be restored. |
The diplomatic and consular and the !
naval appropriation bills are the next |
budgets to be taken up and either or I
both may be considered this week. Such /
line as intervenes will be consumed in !
he consideration of the bill for the
of the laws of Alaska This !
ill has been made q continuing order.
Portions of two days have already been
consumed by it and less than seventy
# the 232 pages of the bill have been
disposed of. The lawyers of the house
how an inclination to go over it criti-
ally, section by section, and it may
'e before the house for an indefinite
'eriod