The Mena weekly star., 1908-05-21
'END IS VERY NEAR MAY SAPP INSANE?
CONGRESS DOING THE LAST WEEKS WORK OF THE
 SESSION.
MANY CONVENTIONS ARE TO BE HELn
Conferences Scheduled-Democrst to Select Many Delegates to the Denver convention--Both Branches Hope to Reach an Adjournment.

Washington, May 19.--Conventions and conferences, political, industrial and religious will have a considerable share in the news report of the week Democratic state conventions will be held in half a dozen states to elect delegates to the Denver convention.
 Californians will meet in Fresno on Monday and on the same day the Washington state convention will be held in Spokane. Democratic pri- maries throughout Alabama will also be held on Monday. The Pennsyh vania Democratic state convention will meet in Harrisburg on Tuesday and on that day Democratic primaries will be held to select national dele gates and presidential electors in Florida. The New Jersey prohibition state convention is also scheduled for Tuesday at Trenton. Missouri Demo crats will meet at Jefferson City, and Michigan Democrats at Lansing on Wednesday. On Thursday the Demo crats of the District of Columbia will hold district convention at Washing ton and on Saturday the Arizona state Democratic convention will meet in Phoenix.
 business Monday with the iiea that this will be the last week of the pres ent session, but opinions as to the ex- act date of adjournment vary all the way from Wednesday to Saturday. 1t does not seem probable that the con elusion will be reached before the lat. ter day, but much will depend on the progress of the conference on the cur rency bill.
 The appropriation bills have reached such state of completeness that there is little doubt that if necessary the work on them could be finished within two or three days. Several of those measures are still in conference. but all are near agreement Only the gen eral deficiency bill remains to be act ed upon by the house, and 1t probably will be passed before adjournment Monday. That bill and the military academy bill only remain for or ginal consideration by the senate, and neither will require extended time there.
 If nothing else in the way of legis- lation was desired there would be no difficulty about getting away by the middle of the week, but there is too much anxiety to obtain currency enactment to permit quitting without more prolonged effort. There Is some apprehension of a pocket veto of the omnibus public buildings bill, and there will be no resolution of adjourn ment so long as there is any uncer- tainty as to what the president may do with that measure in case of ad- journment before 1t Is signed It may therefore be set down that congress will adjourn as soon as 1t is known whether there will be or will not be currency legislation and when it Is known that the building bill will re- ceive the presidential sanction The house will continue to consider bills under the suspension of the rules and will give much attention to con ference reports. 1t is expected that reports will be made by the paper and submarine boat Investigating commit tees during the week and that both will receive considerable attention. If there is an agreement on a currency bill by the conference, the measure will be extensively debated by both houses.