Show extravagant ACTS president harrison proposes A halt in appropriations BLAIRS educational BILL oklahoma territorial bill the senate obeys chandler ibid strikes some remarks out from our correspondent D C 14 mr harrison his added to lie existing panic among congressmen by prominent members of liis party that it was necessary to call a bialt in the proposed extra jaent congressional appropriations and that if congress persisted in pasing pas ing a number of measures now bafo i e it enormous sums of money for purposes that are not necessary for the public welfare he woula certainly be billed to exercise exec cise his right to veto such measures the result is eliat a M lamblo has already begun among alie various committees to see which can it i t the most boford the end is reached this scramble will grow w r anil worse from now on until the day of adjournment and the result will be that many meritorious measures will be left out in the cold while numbers of without merit will become laws from a strictly political standpoint alie democrats have nothing to complain of in the present situation every republican publican Ee seems to desire to get a part of the much talked about treasury surplus before it entirely disappears disappear a there is at least a dozen propositions before congress to increase the salaries of different classes of government employees all things end some time not even the biair educational bill is an exception to this rule the senate has decided to vote upon that measure next thursday it is probable but not certain that it will pass the action of that djury known as the senate committee on elections in deciding to report in favor of the republican senatorial contestants from montana has raised a storm of indignation among democrats and when the report gets before the senate some red hot speeches may be expected the oklahoma territorial bill has passed the house and having previously the senate is now in the hands of the president the senate has obeyed the demand of senator chandler and passed a resolution striking from the record some remarks made by senator call concerning the senator from new hampshire lucli action will not injure mr call nor will it convince anybody that the language was not deserved by the other man mrs harrison mrs wanamaker and daughter and bussell harrison and lis wife have gone to florida on a free excursion cur sion in a private palace car kindly furnished for the occasion by a prominent railroad magnate florida people are here this week asking the committee on ways and means to protect oranges to the extent of a box the committee of the house engaged in investigating the civil service coin mission is now going over the printed evidence preparatory to making a report what the report will be is a matter of considerable discussion A joint resolution has bei jered in the senate proposing an am nent to the constitution providing fo jie election of united states senators by the people instead of by sante legislation senator stanford has offered a resolution asking the senate finance committee to examine into lie feasibility of the government loaning money to the farmers of the country at 1 or 2 cant a year somebody has aked why the senator did not invest a few millions of his monay in eliat dav anybody can afford to be liberal uncle sams money congress will investigate the immigration system and the foreign syndicates that have recently been buying up american industries in accordance cor dance with 1 cun resolution eliat lias parsed both houses both subjects need investigation ant there is lilile hope of anything important being found out by a congressional committee ex congressman taulbee is dead and kincaid the newspaper correspondent who shot him is in jail awaiting trial for murder A federal election bill will shortly be introduced in the house |