The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-09
Senator Morgan VIII Push His Nicaragua
Cana Bill.
Senator Mason Will Discuss His.
Resolution Opposing This Coun>
try's Asserting Sovereignty
Over Cuba and the Philippines
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Report on the Nutritive Value
of American Canned Meats.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The week
promises to be a busy one in the Sem
ate. 1t will begin with an elaborate
and carefully prepared speech by Sem
ator Hoar, to be delivered immediately
after the transaction of the routine bus
mess tomorrow, in opposition to the
expansion of American territory. This
speech is of considerable length and
with the Interruptions that are liable
to 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's asserting sovereignty over Cuba
and the Philippines, taking strong
grounds 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 a date for taking a vote upon
his bill for the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal and whether he sue
ceeds or not, will press the bill as con-
tinuously upon the attention of the
Senate as circumstances permit IMAM
imous consent is necessary to the fixing
of a time for a vote, and it is not prob
able that this will be secured for some
time to come.
1t 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 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 reor-
ganization of the army. 1t was the
general understanding before the re-
cess that this bill would be given con-
sideration Immediately after the holi-
days, but the illness of Chairman Hull
of the Military Affairs Committee will
delay this measure until he is sutfi-
GENTLY recovered to attend the sessions
of the House. His illness will also de-
lay the military academy and army APP
preparation bills. Meantime the friends
of the navy personnel bill are pushing
for it's consideration and the Rules
Committee may give a day to it during
the present week The bill represents
a complete agreement between the line
and the staff. These two branches of
the service have been at war for MANY
years, but now they have at last got
together and agreed upon a measure,
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 1t contemplates involves
an additional charge on the treasury
of several hundred thousand dollars.
The final vote on the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill will
take place tomorrow. The opponents
of the civil service law succeeded in
striking from the bill, while the House
was in Committee of the Whole, the
appropriation for the maintenance OF
the commission. But tomorrow when
the vote is taken in the House, where's
members are obliged to go on record,
there is little doubt but the appropri-
alton 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 may be >
considered this week. Such time as
intervenes will be consumed in the cons
sideration of the bill for the codifica-
ton Of the laws of Alaska. This bill
has been made a continuing order. Por-
tions of two days have already 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 go over it crit
ically, section by section, and it may be
before the House for an indefinite
period