Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-23
TO ADJOURN TUESDAY
Practical Agreement Reached
by House Leaders.
SENATE READY TO GO NOW
Only the Democratic Filibuster
Keeps Congress Here.
STATUS OF THE SUPPLY BILLS
Conference Reports on a Number Of
Measures Likely to GO Over
Until Next Session.

Congress will adjourn next Tuesday.
The House leaders had a conference this
morning and 1t was tentatively agreed
to introduce resolution early Monday
morning just after the House meets pro-
viding for adjournment the next day II
is understood that Congress will not have
to rush very much in order to make the
getaway Then Were ii not for the con-
tinuance Of the democratic filibuster all
Of the imperatively necessary affairs Of
this session could be closed up some time
tonight
When the Senate began business today
1t was with the idea that no bills should
be passed which would complicate the
situation in the House and result in
further delay in final adjournment Be-
fore the Senate convened and after q
conference with other republican leaders
in the Senate. Senator Aldrich visited
I he House and informed the leaders there
that the Senate was ready to adjourn as
soon as disposition should be made OF
the conference reports on supply bills
He suggested. therefore. that II the
House was not ready the Senate could
ADJOURN after the morning business until
Monday.
Speaker Cannon Objects.
| action could be had today on the sundry
civil bill. as well as on one or two other
appropriation measures. and that II the
Senate and House were both in session
| today a number Of these big measures
could be got out of the way. 1t is esti-
mated that the printing and the enroll
| ment of the sundry civil bill will require
about sixteen hours There are large
number of conference reports before the
L hrff lN .l>--
i that most of them. other than the re-
ports on the supply bills. will be allowed
to go over until next session.
The conference report on the fortin-
by the House to-day The effect Of the
action is to send the bill to the President
for approval. The report gave rise to no
debate. although roll call was neces-
sary to secure its adoption.
Without a roll call the House today
| agreed to the conference report on the
omnibus pension claims bill. providing
| for pensions to several hundred persons.
Mr.. Williams statement that he would
! not insist on the yeas and nays was
greeted with applause.
Supply Bills Remaining.
At present the legislative. executive and
judicial appropriation bill. the District OF
Columbia. Notifications agricultural.
army. navy. diplomatic. Indian and Mill
1 Il
These remain:
The pension appropriation bill. which is
hung uD in conference on the Senate's
disagreement to the House propOsition
TO abolish all of the eighteen pension
agencies throughout the country and pay
all pensioners on the rolls from the pen
SION bureau in this city. and on which
there will be compromise reducing the
number OF agencies and paving the way
lot the abolition of all of them in a few
years.
The sundry civil appropriation bill. in
\ Wilcn tne Two main items of difference
the Senate appropriation Of So 900 900 for
! site for IA building for ~the State De-
partment. Department of Justice and De-
partment of Commerce and Labor. and
the Senate appropriation OF 500. 900 for
the Alaska Yukon exposition, have already
been practically settled in conference BY
striking out the s3.0OO.OO0 appropriation
and and reducing the Yukon appropriation to
$6oO.OOo. with change I'm the language
suitable to the House conferees.
The post office appropriation bill. which
was sent back to conference yesterday
through disagreement of the House to
| the ship subsidy amendment inserted in
the Senate. and upon which no agreement
has yet been reported by the conferees
The public building bill. in which the
appropriation of s2.iuO.OOU 10 begin con-
struction of buildings for the departments
of State. Justice and Commerce and Labor
| has been stricken out and like amount
inserted to take the place of the $3OOO.O0O
appropriation stricken out of the sundry
civil bill for a site for this building This
item is subject to point of order which
probably will be made in the House.
The general deficiency bill. on which no
fight of Importance is anticipated.
Correcting District Bill.
Had it not been discovered i'm time. one
little hereafter" in the District of Co.
| lumbia appropriation bill would have
cost the government $4,000 year AT
least. and the teachers of the public
schools of Washington would have been
that much in.
But Representative Burleson of Texas.
VINO. by misplaced caret i'm hastily
written conference amendment. nearly
brought about this costly error also dis
covered the misplaced hereafter He
today introduced n concurrent resolution
to put the expensive word back in its
place.
In the amendment i'm question il is pro-
vided that hereafter teachers employed
in normal. high and manual training
schools may be placed in group A. class
six. and receive their longevity increase
according to their number of years of ex-
perience in teaching in accredited normal.
high or manual training schools. That
is not the way the amendment was in
tended. 1t was intended to read that
teachers hereafter employed. etc The
presence of the hereafter before
teachers would have cost. Ii has been
figured out. at least $f0.W0 year. as 1t
would have embraced all teachers. where
as the intention was to embrace only