Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-27
SSH CONGRESS.
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the House is enabled to quickly bring
every proposition to a vote under Sus-
pension of the rules, a motion to suS-
pend the rules being in order at any
time during the last week of the SEES
sion. This gives the House a distinct
advantage and enables it at the fas
end of the session to transact an enor-
nous amount of business in very
short time. IA {,
The state of the appropriations is
such that the situation might well
cause alarm were it not for the almost
universal desire on both sides of the
House to Obviate the necessity of an
extra session of Congress. Only three
of the IA supply bills have gone to the
President-the pension, Rilitary acad-
envy and consular and diplomatic. Six
were passed by both Houses. Five of
these-the legislative. executive and
judicial, the post office. the agricui-
tural. District of Columbia and Indian
are in conference where the represen-
tatives of the two Houses are seeking
to adjust their difficulties. The river
and harbor has been referred to the
river and harbor committee of the
House. The sundry civil has passed
the House and is under consideration
in the Senate
The naval bill has passed the House,
but has not vet been reported to the
Senate. The army bill is being consid-
cred in the House, and two of the bills,
the Notifications and the general defici-
ency. are yet to be acted upon by the
House. Most of the bills in conference
he, hi xHr1,i 1t.tl 1,, or
less difficult to solve but none of these
differences. vexatious and serious as
they may be. promise "A deadlock which
might result in their failure. with the
single exception of the river and har
Dor bill. and its loss would not neces-
state an extra session.
The fight over the Nicaragua canal
bill amendment which the Senate plac-
ed upon this bill as a rider will be bit
ter and to the death. Although the
canal proposition undoubtedly would
again command a majority of the votes
in the House, it is arranged that the
opposition of the appropriation COM
mittee and the ablest tacticians of the
House who do not believe legislation
authorizing such an enormous expense
should be hastily passed during the
dying hours of Congress. Every STRAIT
/, egg known to parliamentary laws will
be employed to defeat the proposition
and if necessary probably to kill the
bill, should the Senate prefer its death
to it's enactment without the canal
amendment.
After the committee considers the
Senate amendments Chairman Burton
will probably come into the House with
motion for disagreement upon all
amendments and an agreement in the
Senate's request for a conference. Mr..
Hepburn, chairman of the interstate
| commerce. commission, will move a
concurrence in the canal amendment
which motion is in order and takes
precedence. But as the amendment
carries an appropriation it must be
considered in committee OF the whole
first and here its opponents will make
their first fight. Obstructive tactics
can be employed, but it lies in the
power of the majority to win in the end
and it is probable that upon a vote the
House may agree ia the amendment.
But this will not end the contest by