Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-23
EXTRA SESSION MAY Be CALLED LATER
congress Might Be Called Together Shortly
After the November Elestion.
QUESTIONS ToBE CONSIDERED THIS WEEK
Sessions Of Senate Will Be Devoted to Odds
and Ends of Legislation.
INTEREST CENTERS IN NOTICE OF QUAY
VIII Cali Up HIS Motion for Dis
charge OF Committees on Terri
tories 10 Secure Action on
Omnibus statehood Bill.

tories to secure Action on
Omnibus statehood Bill.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-The sessions
OF the senate during the present week will
be devoted to odds and ends of legisla-
tion. 1t was the purpose of the republican
steering committee to make the Cuban
reciprocity bill the order of business after
the disposition of the interoceanic canal
bill. but the two republican conferences
have rendered It evident that there would
be no reciprocity legislation this session.
so the steering committee has abandoned
| its purpose.
Some interest is manifested in the notice
| Senator Quay has given that tomorrow he
would call up his motion for the discharge
| of the committee on territories from fur
| ther consideration OF the omnibus state
| hood bill in order to secure action on It
during the present session, but the under
standing now is that he will not press his
motion and that the question will go over
until the next session of congress in
| obedience to the wish of the republican
| leaders. Senator Bate however, has stated
! that II Senator Quay does not press his
! motion he (Bate) will move to have the
| committee discharged and the bill taken
| up. This motion would bring the question
up, but coming from the minority side of
the chamber 1t would be predestined to
| defeat, as It is understood there are very
| few If any republican senator's who will
support such motion II made by demo-
cratic senator. On Tuesday the senate will
| take up, in obedience to the wish of Sena-
! tor Burton, the bill creating a national
| forest reserve in the Southern Appalachian
mountain range, but the understanding is
| that consideration of the measure shall be
| continued to one day. Wednesday Senator
| McCumber will be heard In support of the
pure food bill, but consideration of the
| question under agreement will be confined
to a speech by the senator, and there will
be no effort at that time to pass the bill.
| Senator Stewards bill confirming the agree
ment with the Choctaw and Chiekasaw In
dians is the unfinished business and It is
understood to be Mr.. Stewards purpose to
press it's consideration when there is no
more highly privileged matter to be con-
| sidered.
To Report ImniRrRtion Bill.
Senator Penrose on Monday will report
| the general immigration bill and II is un-
derstood that he will make strenuous efforta
to have the measure considered during the
week, or at least before the final adjourn
ment of congress
For the rest of the week will be given
| over to conference reports on appropriation
bills and other measures in dispute between
the two houses The conference report on
the naval appropriation bill will be sub
mitted on Monday and early consideration
will be given the report There also will
be an effort to have the dispute over the
army bill adjusted during the week, with
some prospect of success The committee
| on appropriations will take up the general
deficiency bill tomorrow and probably will
| report 1t the latter part OF the week. This
| is the last Of the appropriation bills, and
with its disposal there will be little In
the way of final adjournment Of congress.
Senators generally predict that congress
will disperse between the first and the
fourth OF July The session probably will
be extended somewhat by the necessity Of
concluding consideration OF the Philippine
government bill, as all the appropriation
bills could be finally disposed OF during
the present week. The house, however,
| will not pass on the Philippine bill until
the latter part OF the week, and II is ex-
pected that it will be necessary to devote
considerable time In conference between
the senate and house.
The conference between the two houses
on the interoceanic bill has been arranged
and It is expected that an agreement will
be reached during the present week.
No Action on Reciprocity Bill.
1t is possible that the Cuban commit
tee will report the reciprocity bill before
adjournment, but il 1t should do so there
will be no effort to secure action on II in
view OF the we'll known opposition of a
large part OF the senate.
The friends of the policy OF reciprocity,
however, are quite determined to bring the
matter up at the next session and repeat
what they said In Fridays conference, that
they will not desist until they accomplish
their purpose. Whether in the end they
will do this through a bill OF through q
treaty they do not now undertake to say.
II is generally understood about the SEN
ate that a reciprocity treaty with Cuba Is
well under way. but It is not believed there
will be any effort to ratify Il during the
present session, even II the document should
be sent TO the senate. The disposition In
brief, is to go TO the country on the ques-
tion. In the hope that the cause will be
strengthened thereby and that at least some
Of the beet sugar republicans will be won
over by next December. Senators generally
do not count on an extra session immedi-
ately In case a treaty should be sent in,
but many OF them are inclined to believe
that II the treaty is completed the senate
will be called together in extraordinary ses-
sion for its consideration soon after the
November elections to get the treaty out
OF the way before the beginning OF the reg
, ular session In December. Indeed, Il Is
said, that this is the present program 30
far as program has been outlined. though
its execution probably will depend some
what on the result OF the elections and
whether they are considered favorable TO
reciprocity OF not.
Fears of a FIooa Are over.