Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-09

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ana prepared speech by Sena-
ter Hon 70 be delivered Immediately
after thu Transaction of routine bust
mess Ho-n1orr0 in opposition to the
Extension Of Amsxican territory. This
speech is Of consiHgable length and
with the interruptionsNthat are liable
ITO occur it will probably consume the
greater portion of the day. Tuesday
Senator Mason will discuss briefly his
resolution in opposition to this coun
try asserting sovereignty over Cuba
and the Philippines, taking strong
4 ground for the independence of the
people of those islands
Senator Morgan will make an effort
early in the week to get the Senate to
name date for taking a vote on his
bill for the construction of the Mica
fagua canal, and whether he succeeds
Or not, will press the bill as continu
6usly upon the attention of the Senate
Is circumstances will permit. Unanl-
NOUS consent is necessary to the fix
ing of a time for a vote, and it is not
probable that this will be secured for
some time to come. 1t is the ex
pectation that the peace treaty will be
reported on Wednesday and also that
some of the appropriation bills now
in the hands of the committee on ap-
preparations will be brought in to-
wards the close of the week. Imme-
date consideration will be asked for
the appropriation bills, but it is pos
sible that tle beginning of the debate
upon the treaty may be postponed 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 a
course.
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 deal of
other important legislation which will
press for consideration at every oppor-
tunity. Perhaps the most important
single measure is the bill for the re-
Organization Of the army. 1t was the
general understanding before the re-
cess that this bill would be given con-
Dbideration Immediately after the holi
days, but the illness of Chairman Hull,
of the Military Affairs Committee, will
delay this measure until he is sufficient
ly recovered to attend the sessions of
the House. His illness will also delay
the military academy and army appro-
priation bills. Meantime the friends
of the navy personnel bill are pushing
for its consideration and the rules COM
mittee may give day to it during the
present week. The bill represents
complete agreement between the line
and the staff. These two branches of
the service have been at gar for many
years, but now that they have at last
got together and agreed upon a meas
ure its passage once it gets to a vote
Is assured. The only opposition to it
IS likely to arise from the fact that the
organization it contemplates involves
an additional charge on the treasury
Of several hundred thousand dollars.
The final vote on the legislative, execu-
tive and appropriation bill will be TAX
EN- tomorrow. The opponents of the
civil service law succeeded in striking
from the BILL while the House was in
committee of the whole, the appropria.
ton for the maintenance of the com.
mission. But tomorrow, when the
vote is taken in the House, where mem
bers are obliged to go on record, there
is little doubt but that the appropria-
ton will be restored. The diplomatic
and consular and the naval appropria-
ton bills are the next budget to be
taken up and either or both of them
may be considered this week. Such
time as intervenes will be consumed in
the consideration of the bill for the
codifcation of the laws of Alaska.
This bill has been made a continuing
s order. Portions of two days have al
ready been consumed by it and less
than seventy of the 232 pages of the
bill have been disposed of. The lawyers
of the House show an inclination to 60
over it critically, section by section,
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