Show MEMBERS MUST WORK Business Happed Out In Both Houses of Congress + MANY IMPORTANT BILLS + HOARS SPEECH AGAINST EXP EX-P COMES TODAY I Tomorrow Senator Mason Will Present Pre-sent a Plea For the independence of Cuba and the Philippines Peace Treaty Will Be Reported Wednesday House Programme + Washington Jan SThe week promises prom-ises to be a busy one in the senate It will begin with an elaborate and carefully care-fully prepared speech by Senator Hoar j to be delivered immediately after the transaction of the routine business tomorrow to-morrow in opposition to the expansion of American territory This speech is of considerable length and with the I interruptions that are liable to occur j it will probably consume the greater portion of the day Tuesday Senator Mason will discuss briefly his resolution in opposition to this countrys assertin sovereignty over Cuba aridatle Philippines taking r strong grounds for the independence off of-f the people of those islands Senator Morgan will make an effort early in the week to get the senate to I name a date for taking vote upon his bill for the construction of the Nicaragua Nicara-gua canal and whether he succeeds or I not will press the bill as continuously upon the attention of the senate as circumstances cir-cumstances will permit Unanimous I consent is necessary to the fixing of a time for a vote and it is not probable that this will be secured for some time I to come It is the expectation that the peace treaty will be reported on Wednesday and also that some of the appropriation I appropria-tion bills now in the hands of the ccm mittee on appropriations will be brought in towards the close of the I week Immediate consideration will be asked for the appropriation bills but it is possible that the Beginning of the debate upon the treaty may be postponed post-poned until next week There is an effort on foot among the opponents of the treaty to have it discussed in open j I session but the indications are against i I such a course HOUSE PROGRAMME The time of the house will be fully occupied from this time forward until the conclusion of the session Appropriation Appro-priation bills which are already in an unusually advanced stage are to be kept to the fore but there is a good deal of other important legislation which will press for consideration at every opportunity Perhaps the most important single measure is the bill for the reorganization L reorganiza-tion of the army It was the general t F understanding before the recess that this bill would be given consideration immediately after the holidays but the I illness of Chairman Hull of the military mili-tary affairs committee will delay this measure until he is sufficiently recovered re-covered to attend the sessions of the house His illness will also delay the military academy and army appropriation appropria-tion bills Meantime the friends of the navy personnel bill are pushing for its consideration con-sideration and the rules committee may give a day to it during the present j week The bill represents a complete I agreement between the line and the staff These two branches of the service I serv-ice have been at war for many years but now they have at last got together and agreed upon a measure its passage pas-sage once it gets to a vote is assured The only opposition to it is likely to arise from the fact that the organization organiza-tion it contemplates involves an additional ad-ditional charge on the treasury of several sev-eral hunded thousand dollars The final vote on the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill will take place tomorrow The opponents op-ponents of the civil service law succeeded suc-ceeded in striking from the bill while the house was in committee of the whole the appropriation for the maintenance main-tenance of the commission But tomorrow tomor-row when the vote is taken in the house where members are obliged togo to-go on record there is little doubt but that the appropriation will be restored The diplomatic and consular and the naval appropriation bills are the next i budgets to be taken up and either or both may be considered this week Such I time as intervenes will be consumed in I the consideration of the bill for the I codification of the laws of Alaska This bill has been made a continuing order Portions of two days have already been consumed by it and less than seventy of the 232 pages of the bill have been disposed of The lawyers of the house show an inclination to go over it critically criti-cally section by section and it may be before the house for an indefinite period I |