The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-05
SEES END OF
 LONG DEBATE
 ---s----- Hepburn Bill Soon to Be Voted Upon.
 - THE WORK OF THE SENATE Shipping Bill Now Has the Right
 of Way. Afterwards she Statehood nn wm Be Taken Up--Foraker amepdment wnu snow strength of Ad-
 yocates and Opponents. I'd H
TIE WORK OF TIE SENATE
Afterwards the Statehood nru wm Be

Chairman Hepburn. in charge of the railroad rate bill in the House of Rep resentatives. is able to see the end of the debate on that measure Under the order. 1t has. the right cf-way until dis-t posed of. The very first day of the de- date. which began last Tuesday devel- oped the. desire of many members to make speeches An extra hour was added to each day and still the list of applicants for time grew larger. MT Hepburn has long list of Republicans who are anxious to be heard; and Mir. Adamson. controlling the time on the minority side. says there are fifty Dem eerats who wish to be heard In favor of the measure.
 Speaker Cannon is inclined to let the debate run and estimates that 1t will be Wednesday or Thursday before the last speech lis delivered and the vote recorded on the measure. As soon as this is accomplished. the pension ap- propriation bill, reported from commit tee last week, will be taken up. The biil carries total of S14o,245,50o to pay the pensions of veterans. It Is generally disposed of In the shortest time of any of the annual supply meas ures, but this year 1t contains provis- ions which virtually make statute of the Presidents order of last year. nak- ing age an evidence of disability.
 Opposition to Order.
 There is said Go be decided opposi- ton to snacting this executive order into law. As tho provision Is without question .'new legislation" and subject to point of order lnder the rules of the House, 1t Is not unlikely that rule will be brought in when the bill Is taken mp. which will provide that the amend ment shall be in order.
 The fortlfications appropriations bill wlA ne FelsesEed tp. the ykssiss fEpsq be considered as soon as x the pension hill is ont of the way This bill is a short measure and carries this year between $5.000,000 and $7.0Ou. .00o.
 The friends in the, Senate of the shipping bill are hopeful Of securing, some time during the week, an agree ment to vote on that measure and the understanding is that so soon as will succeed it as unfinished business. There are no set speeches on the ship ping bill in sight, but the expectation is that the running debate which has characterized the recent consideration of the bill will be continued for some days.
 Much interest is shown in the ap- preaching contest in the Senate over the statehood question Senator Bev- eridge, who will again have charge of the bill. is hopeful of securing com paratively, early vote. but many of his colleagues fail to agree with him on that point
 "a. IL will be tAe Foraker amendment, giV- ing the Arizona people the Lrivilege5 of voting on the question of admission. It Is understood that the Democratic senators will be almost unit in sup port of this amendment. and 1t will also secure a number of Republican voters. Just how many Republican supporters there may be is not known, and until tnePe is definite information on that point. the opponents of lhe bitl will not agree to let a vote be taken If the showing should DC favorable to the amendment, the friends Of the b... may not press the vote. but an view of the fact that they would even in that event be sure of the admission of Oklahoma, they might pok be so as their opponents. They will probably meet Mir. Foraker's prop osition for a. sure vote with one for the submission of the question of admission to the people of Arizona and New Mexico combined, ,-
 Irgemt DcIcieney BiHI.
 The urgent deficieIicy bill will be taken up in the committee on appro- priations early in the week and will Irobably be reported d few days later. The provisions In this bill, which will be most debated Is that relating to the ahr3gation of the eight hour law on the Canal zone. As the bill carries the remainder of the deficieney for the canal. a schedule by the War De- partment which was cut off in the first bill passed. It is believed the canal matters in general will again be the subject of considerable talk in the Senate. There is as much deficiency as when the first canal apprlprlation bill passed, ans .consequ ently Senators will feel free to give as much attention to the administration or the canal as they choose,
 Senator Bacon will revive the Morocco question in a speech Tuesday and Wednesday Senator Scott will sneak in support of tine bill giving a pensionahle statute 70 ,. telegraph operators employed with the Union forces during the cfviI War Senator Foraker will take the first opportunity in executive session tc1 secure con- alteration of the Isle of Pines treaty.
 The death of King Christian xI of Denmark has cast a shadow over so many of the courts or Europe that it will make this week a period of almost universal mourning but the important events which can be rorecasted will not be affected by his death.
 Progress is being made slowly in A1- gacIras where the delegates to the Moroccan conference are apparently mere In accord than at any previous lime The two nations most directly concerned. France and Germany, still seem ioath to consider She serious issue the policing of Moroceo-though they nave succeeded in satisfactorily adjust ing the questions of ta'Nation and GUS toms duty.
 Much interest attaches to the launch ing at Portsmouth, England, Saturday next of the Dreadnaught, the largest and most powerful battleshir tn the worlds uavies. All the lessons that experts learned from the Russian-Jap- anese naval battles have been consid- efed in building this vessel.
 February II, at Havana, Cuba. will he begun the second Intern Au- tomobile race meet whichN will last three days.
 The thirty-eiShth annual ctanvsntiou