| Show UNLESS fall SIGHS fl congress adjourns this week BUT A HITCH MIGHT OCCUR protracting Protract ing the session another week the first session of the congress enjoys the distinction of being the shortest long ses slon for thirty years what has been accomplished by the lawmakers law makers washington jane 7 unless all signs fail congress will adjourn this week and those in touch with the business of both houses appear to agree tant that result may be secured by wednesday still conditions are such that a hitch might occur at any moment which would protect the session for another week this however while a possible contingency tin gency is not expected the business of the senate depends entirely upon the headway made with conference reports several of the appropriation bills are to be disposed of aa follows the indian bill on which the house refused to act favorably on the conference agreed to in the senate the post office bill the report on which was to in the house saturday and will be accepted by the senate tomorrow the naval bill which will doubtless be speedily disposed of tomorrow morning as the conferees have already formulated a compromise which they believe will be acceptable to both houses the sundry civil bill upon which the house and senate seem to be deadlocked over the appropriations for the public buildings inserted by the senate and the district bill numerous items of which are still in dispute it Is confidently expected however that all of these will be out of the way in the next forty eight hours the new deficiency bill which passed the house saturday will be rushed through the senate tomorrow with all possible speed it being the intention of the committee to move to lay on the table any amendments that may bo offered so that the bill will pass as it comes from the house this motion to lay on the table ia the only motion the senate has under the rules to cut off debate and it will be appealed to liberally when this measure comes up the immigration bill Is the unfinished business and mr lodge will call it up tomorrow for consideration if an opening presents itself sir hill who is in charge of the contempt of court bill a piece of legislation growing out of the debs case is also anxious for consideration and may lock horns with mr lodge for the right of way mr gear will seek to fix a day during the next session when the pacific railroad refunding acts shall be taken up in this he may succeed as both friends and opponents believe eliat this subject should be settled one way or the other all of these and other matters that may come before the senate will tend to make the next few days exceedingly busy ones and if mr alien chairman of tho committee on appropriations carries out hia vicious intention of not reporting the adjournment resolution until all the appropriation bills have gone to the president there may be ample time to discuss several things upon which senators desire to speak the course of business is therefore uncertain and the forecast is largely conjectural jec tural SHORTEST LONG SESSION first session of the contrass Cone rass enjoys at least one distinction washington june 7 the first session of the fifty fourth congress now in its closing hours enjoys the distinction of being ahe shortest long session for a period of thirty years A senate passively indifferent in some instances and in others actively hostile with an executive not in sympathy with the republican party policies are the reasons assigned by the house leaders for the paucity ot national legislation 0 the measures which become laws the most important from an international standpoint was the bill creating the commas bionto determine the true divisional line between venezuela and british guiana of scarcely less importance are the bills prohibiting arizo fighting in the territories permitting appointments in the army and navy of former united states officers who served in the rebellion and making one years residence in a terri tory a prerequisite to obtaining a divorce there excepting these how ever the remainder of the bills and resolutions which received the presidents ap pro not of a character to deserve extended mention the more important were the billa incorporating the national society ot the daughters of the revolution opening the forest reservations in colorado tor the location of mining claims regulating proof of death in pension cases pro for a naval training school in san francisco harbor making it unlawful to shoot at any railway train or any person thereon or to throw missiles into such train and repealing 61 of the tariff law providing tor a rebate on alcohol aeed in the arte K the session however be conspicuous by reason of its brevity and the limited number of important laws enacted it resulted in abo introduction of a larger number of bills in the house than during any similar period for a quarter ot a century the total number of bills introduced during the entire last congress was of which were introduced during the first session which corre elonda to the session now drawing to a close and in which latter the aggregate reaches of theeo 2300 were favorably reported to the committees to whom they were referred and scores of them are likely to be brought to the attention of the house next winter many members who will enjoy a degree of independence after the autumn elections which they have been denied during the present year and their influence will be exerted to call up and pass measures that arc now regarded as seasonally nally and politically unsafe the nicaragua canal bill is one of these after many months of consideration in the committee it received a favorable report in the face of an absolute certainty that it would not be taken up during the present session the bill to liquidate the indebtedness of the pacific railways to the government is another far reaubin measure which is also unon the calendar with a favorable report but which for prudential reasons will continue to slumber there others are the service pension bill reported by the invalid pension committee the arizona kaw mexico and oklahoma statehood bills the pacific cable bill and the joint resolution conferring the rank of lieutenant general upon major general miles the interest in the cuban revolution was shown in the large number of resolutions lut ions more than fifty in number that were reported and referred to the committee on foreign affairs after careful consideration a concurrent resolution was reported for which was subsequently substituted in conference the senate resolution expressing the sympathy of the united states with the insurgents recognizing their belligerency and calling upon the president to use his good offices to secure the independence of the island measures tor which there baa been a widespread demand that have passed the house and will probably receive consideration from the senate nest session include the bankruptcy bill the mcball bill providing an educational test for immigrants the labor commission and labor arbitration bills and the bill simplifying the rules of the office so far as to facilitate the adjustment of private pension cases the early w beeks of the session were a busy period for the ways and means committee of the measures referred to it thirty were acted upon two of the greatest importance were the bond and revenue bills bond bill passed the house was sent to the senate and resumed with the addition of an amendment providing far aba free coinage of silver the revenue bill died in the senate committee on finance among other measures 0 interest reported by the ways and means committee were the bills permitting the killing of all the fur seals in the filled cheese bill and the bill amending the law permitting a rebate on alco liol used in the arts the committee on invalid pensions broke all previous records for work upwards of 2800 bills were referred to it of which private bills were reported to the house among tha measures ro ported in addition to those which passed the house were bills giving members of state militia a status granting pensions to married remarried re war widows broadening the scope of the law pensioning army nurses increasing the pensions of those who lost limbs in the service and providing for the payment of pensions by check the pensions committee which deals with a different class of measures from those which are referred to the pensions committee disposed of of the COO bills referred to them the committed commit teo on public buildings and grounds was notified early in the that the public revenues were too inadequate to justify the passage of any measures looking to the erection of federal buildings buil dines and for this reason the committee notwithstanding their approval of some of the measures providing for public building pigeon holed them the committees on post offices and post roads railways and canals coinage weights and measures agricultural military public lands patents judiciary and commerce reported the ordinary number of measures bat with few exceptions they were not of unusual importance the results achieved by the senate during the session jast closing are entirely out 0 proportion with the legislation that was introduced up to saturday there had been introduced a total of bills more than were introduced daring the whole of tho last congress the same ratio of increase is found in the flood of memorials and petitions that have been laid before the senate out of array of proposed legislation but little has been done tho finance committee to which waa referred different measures have succeeded in getting abe senate but of any importance that have bacomo laws tho filled cheese bill the amendment to the administrative feature 0 alio tariff act permitting express companies to pay abo duty on express packages valued at dot more than and deliver it to the residence of tho importer direct and the bill to repeal tho free alcohol claudo ot the tariff law abo dingley bill camo out of committee with a freo coinage amendment which prevailed in tho senate and athla proposition to increase abe revenues through tariff duties baa berer binca hung in the air between tho two houses the bankruptcy and contempt 01 court bills the two most important measures mea aures emanating from the committee on the judiciary were not even considered by the senate fhe favorable report from the committee on privileges and elections for an amendment for the election of senators by popular vote became the text for many speeches that never got beyond that indefinite stages from the committee on military came two great measures for the reorganization of the army and a similar bill for the reorganization of the militia one important measure was got through by the committee on territories relating to divorces in the territories thus an evil that had for years cried aloud for radical legislation of the many matters before the naval committee none were acted upon the time of the committee during the greater part of the being consumed in an investigation of the subject of the cost of armor plate and the advisability of the construction of a plant for its manufacture by the government the senate committee on pensions shows a belter record for accomplished results senate pension bills aggregating 1020 were referred to this committee similar bills aggregating came over from the house two hundred and seventy senate pension bills were passed by the senate ot which the house passed but fifty on the other hand the senate passed of the house pension bills out of a total of passed by the house oat of all this proposed legislation but eighty three bills became laws as follows senate bill swit hout the approval of the president 11 senate bills approved 27 house bills become a law without approval 8 house bills approved 37 total 83 the house will devote itself for the remainder of the session to disposing of conference reports contested election cases and of other business under suspension of the rules it will meet for an hour tomorrow morning in continuation of saturdays in order to enable members to move the passage of billa under suspension in accordance with terms of the order ot friday last there are two election cases on the calendar both of which will be vigorously contested on the floor TW aidrich rep vs oscar W underwood dem from the ninth alabama district where the committee recommended the seating of aidrich and jacob yost rep vs geo tucker dem from the tenth virginia district where the committee recommend that tucker retain his seat another case that of U T hopkins rep vs joseph M kendall dem from the tenth kentucky district has not yet been reported from the committee these are all that remain of the thirty three contests filed with the clerk of the house speaker reed is exceedingly anxious that the docket should be entirely cleared before the house adjourns and hopes to ho able to isu it it has definitely decided what to do with the senate bond bill reported adversely bv the committee on ways and means the leaders of the house think it should be disposed of and a vote is probable although there is much opposition to action at this session SERVICES IN 21 CHURCHES delegates 10 tho Cha rilles and corrections convention participate grand rapids mich june 7 services in twenty one of the churches of this city were today conducted by delegates to alie charities and corrections conference at each church there was a large attendance and the topics discussed were those bearing upon charity ft ork and allied work among those who delivered addresses were prof francis peabody of harvard university dr 0 R hendersol Hender soa of chicago university ver sity rabbi louis grossman of detroit jf D J walk of philadelphia rev father T F slattery of lansine Lan prof H W lewis of washington and secretary H H hart of st paul A mass meeting wag held in the evening in lockerty Loc kerly hall and persons attended the subject was social settlements and tho labor question addresses were made as follows miss julia 0 lathrop of hull house chicago what the settlement work stands for dean george hodgel chairman south end house boston and founder of the kingsley house pittsburg religion in tho settlement john D flanagan ex president state federation of labor grand the ideal of the trade union mrs florence kelly state factory inspector chicago the working child prof graham taylor warden chicago con mons chicago the settlement and abo labor movement italian socialist deputy rone juno 7 giusaeppi Giusa eppo de felico the well known social iet leader who was recently released from prison ans today elected to alio chamber of deputies from abo fourth district of rome he formerly represented this district but was unseated because of bis imprisonment for his connection with the socialist riots in sicily in 1893 and 1894 he was sentenced for eighteen years but was riven his liberty under a decree of amnesty his opponent today was 4 tho sueae in trouble st louis mo june 7 poter peterson a prize fighter known as the terrible swede attacked andrew smith an iron molder in a saloon aa tho foot ot barton street this evening john hickey also a interfered and during the a shot was alred atiat pierced hickeys heart peterson and smith were arrested both deny the shooting hickeys home is in terra haute ind it is believed Pe tereon 1 fired the shot |
