The age-herald., 1899-01-15
MUCH YET
 ID BE DONE The House and Senate in a Chaotic Condition. TIE APPROPRIATION BILLS Cannon Has Worked Committee Hard in Preparing Them. ILL BE RUSI ( HROUGH SENATE
 EyT- h the CiQSc Hours of Congress LgS : ion is Rapid.
 ISS
 c.S ANECD S oF SENATOR MORGAN
 & Took the Floor on Last Day of Session and Talked Until He Compelled President Hayes to Sign
 His Measure.


 1nere are forty-two days more in the pres ent congress, and there is more to do in that time than at any similar period in many years. Both the house and the sen- ate are in a somewhat chaotic condition at present, but order may come out of it all, and by the time the session narrows down to the little end of the funnel each bin may find its way through 1t without jostling some other measure aside.
 The appropriation bills are getting along nicely in the house. Representative Cam non can get more work out of the appro- priation committee than any man who has been at the head of 1t in many years. Ho lashes his sub b-committees into action every morning by 10 o'clock and keeps them at work the greater part of the day during the sessions of congress and also when the house stands adjourned. The house is very conscientious about its appropriation bills. The senate is not, or, rather, since all these bills originate in the house. the senate can afford on pinch to pass them as made up in the lower body. The senate has been known to pass as many as three appropria- ton bills in one day.
 Senate Slow Body
 Ht SSHdtt ID q SloW DOuy ioA tiS SlSdiSi part of the year, but it does more business between the 1st and the 4th of March than any other egisla tive body in the world could do in that space of time The house will never take what the senate does on faith, and should its bills get digested at the end of the session they would never get through. They would either have to wait over until the following December or else be passed in an extra session.
 The senate, however, rather likes the bus mess of crowding bills through in the last four days of congress. Many a well put up job that has failed through the whole sessions has slipped through on the night of March the 3rd. So much has this been done and so many bad jobs put through at this time that the four last days have become to be known in the senate and the lobby as the rogue's holiday
 Whenever a senator cannot get what he wants in committee he threatens to hold up this or that bill until he can show the merits of his bill or amendment. Finally the senator In sheer desperation, and in fear of forcing an extra session permits the pet measure of the senator to pass It was in th.s way that Senator Morgan got I of his; one that was of special interest to Alabama. The bill had passed and had gone to the president.
 The Executive Rolled
 The chief executive did not want to veto the bill, so be thought to let it die a na- tural death. The bill was still without the presidents signature on the second of March. There still remained much work to be done. Several appropriation bills were before the senate and if they failed to pass the president would be forced to call an extra session of congress to pro- vide revenues for running the government. When the senate met at noon on the sec- ond Senator Morgan took the floor on some trivial matter, some personal explanation, I believe, on which subject he was priv ileged to aalk as long as he wanted. He had been speaking about fifteen minutes when some of the senators asked him if he remembered that there were important ap- propriatlon bills to pass. He did remem- Der but said he had some points to make clear before closing. After speaking for an hour the members of the appropriation committee again called his attention to the little time left before the congress reached it's constitutional limitations. He said that he was in no great hurry that the presi- dent, moreover, had shown no great hurry in signing his bill which was of special in- terest to his people, but he would try to conclude his remarks on the following day.
 Still on the Premises
 Learning the motive of this self-innicted speech of the Alabamian, some of the sen ators went to the white house and begged the president to sign Morgans bill. The president pooh-poohed the idea of Senator Morgan being able to talk much longer, but when two hours later he heard that Morgan was stiil on the premises of his discourse he signed the bill and potiied Senator Morgan by wire. On reading the [Continued on Second Page.l