Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-15
OUTLOOK IN CONGRESS-.
Summary Of the Business to Be Disposed OF
In the Next Three Weeks.

In the Next Three Weeks.
The house will have little or no time
during the remaining three weeks OF
the session to devote to anything. ex'
cept appropriation bills, says Wash
ington dispatch of Sunday. Yet there
are number of measures of great i'm
portance which will press for consider
alton. Much pressure is being brought
upon the committee on rules for an
other day for the passage of the public
building bills, to which the house last
week devoted two days in committee
of the whole, and this request will
probably be acceded to; but hardly
during the coming week.
The announcement of Chairman
Cannon that there was no time to con.
slider the steamship subsidy bill and
the Nicaragua Canal bill settles the
fate of the former. The friends of the
latter are to try flank movement by
attempting to attach the canal bill to
the sundry civil bill now under con-
sidesation. As it will be the only
chance the bill will have at this ses.
sion, its supporters will make desper'
ate fight. Time must be given for the
consideration of the bill for the gov
ernment of Hawaii; but it also, for
the present, must give way to the ap.
preparation bills. Five of the great
annual budgets still remain unacted
upon by the house, and as they are the
most important of the appropriation
bills, it will require practically all the
remainder of the session to put them
through and consider the conference
report upon the other appropriation
bills as they are brought in. This will
undoubtedly prove to be the case if
the opposition shows a disposition to
debate the various propositions as they
are brought into the arena. And this
seems altogether likely. During the
earlier part of the session the opposi-
ton was passive; but it seems to have
been aroused by the debate on the
army reorganization bill, and within
the past week has become quite ag-
gressive. The threat of an extra ses-
sion appears to hold no terrors for the
Democrats and Populists indeed,
some of them would apparently wei
come it, especially if it were called to
increase the size Of the regular army.
The promised effort on the part of
the committee on military affairs to
get immediate consideration of the
army reorganization bill promises to be
the most important feature of the pro-
ceedings of the senate during the pres
ent week.
Lines are divided very sharply on
this bill, and the contest over its con-
sideration will be both fierce and stub
born. The Republican members of the
committee manifest strong determi
nation to press the bill regardless of
all other measures, and their first effort
will be to secure consent from the COM
mittee on appropriations to set appro.
priation bills aside until the army re-
organization bill can be disposed of.
They argue that it is useless to pro.
ceed with the appropriations, especial
ly those for the army, until they know
how large the army will he. They
also urge that there is far greater ne
cessity for legislation increasing the
size of the army than for the appro-
priation of money to meet the govern
ment's expenditures.
The Democrats, not only on the mil
itary committee, but throughout the
senate, will resist any effort to get the
army bill through. They say, how
ever, they will not try to prevent con-
sideration of the bill. In speaking Oh
this point Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
said: "If the Republicans want to
take the responsibility of filibustering
against the appropriation bills and OF
throwing them over to another CON-
gress, l, for one, am willing that they
should do so." Continuing, be said
that he did not believe that the army
bill could be passed if it should receive
the exclusive attention of the senate