Show Closing Work of Congress WASHINGTON March Important interest in-terest during the remainder of the session centers in the committee oh appropaia tions and in the conference committee The former has today furnished consideration consid-eration of the sundry civil bills and it will be reported to the Senate at 9 oclock tomorrow morning The bill has been considerably changed as regards amounts but no conspicuous features have been added The deficiency bill will be taken up by the subcommittee tomorrow morning and it is expected that it will be reported to the Senate Tuesday The for titication bill which will then be the only remaining regular annual appropriation bill untouched by the Senate contains very few items and will be puickly disposed of On Tuesday night or Wednesday morning The bills in conference are pensions army postoffice Indian and legislative bills The first two contain no conspicuous features fea-tures and conclusions respecting them will be easily reached Conferences upon the postoffice bill are holding their first meeting this evening and expect to agree before adjournment upon everything except ex-cept the socalled subsidy clause upon which a second conference will doubtless be required The legislative bill has been agreed to by conferees with the excep tion of provisions for clerks for Senators and it is expected the House will recede from its position in this regard as it did last year The Indian bill presents some difficulties the solution of which cannot at this time be foreseen Very little business except the consideration con-sideration of appropriation bills is to be expected from the present Congress though friends of several important measures meas-ures in the Hquse Avill endeavor to secure action upon them At this stage of the session it practically requires unanimous consent for the passage of any important measure since a very small minority may by resorting to parliamentary methods delay and exhaust the remaining remain-ing time Among the measures likely to be pressed upon the attention of the House are the Grant retirement bill bankruptcy bank-ruptcy bill education bill Mexican Mexi-can pension bill and the National library bill u |