Show WILL RATIFfTREA T Opposition In tile Senate Is Less Pronounced + EARLY ACTION PROBABLE 4 MY BE RTIFD DURING PRESENT SESSION 4 Some Senators Wi Iit Upon Lengthy Debate But There I a Strong Feeligg Ext Session Amtiexpansion Petitions Sesion Atexpaion et ton Car But 2000 Signatures + Washington Dec 1SThe week In the senate will be opened wit a speech by Senator Plat of Connecticut on the question ques-tion of expansion He has given notice fan f-an address to begin immediately after the conclusiOn of the routine morning business busi-ness Monday Mr Platt will reply to the speech of Senator Vest made lat Monday Mon-day and as he has given very careful attention at-tention to the extension of our territorial area no little interest Is manitesed among senators in his presentatIon of the matter mat-ter and it is not Improbable unless the Nicaragua bill prevents that the speech Icaraga will precipitate a more or less general de bate upon this question Whether It does or not a number of speeches on the same subject will be made after the Christntas holidays preparatory to the consideration of the peace treaty It Is hoped that the treaty will be taken up for discussion early In January Already Al-ready there is talk of tho probability of disposIng of the treaty durIng the present session and the ImpressIon favorable to the result Is growing A few senators manifest a disposition to debate theteaty at length and some profess unalterable opposition but the feeling Is so strong against an extra session and In favor of the postponement of the settlement of the te pstponement disposition of the Philippines after they come into our possessIon that It nov seems that even the minority will consent con-sent to the treatys ratification without material delay The friends of the treaty who are glv ing attention to the closest details of opposition op-position as they develop themselves have taken the pains to have enumerated the names of pans signer to the memorials against annexaton which have reached the senate and they find that there are fewer than 20 of them distributed among the states a follows Masse chusets 14 West VIrginIa 101 Indiana In-diana i Ohio 5 Florida 47 New York 45 VirgInia 39 Vermont 20 Maryland a t A iaV 16 PennsylvanIa and Illinois I each ii Rhode Island 1 New Hampshire 6 California Cal-ifornia and Missouri 3 each Wisconsin and Tennessee 2 each and Maine Colorado Colo-rado Iowa and Nevada 1 each NICARAGUA BILL Senator Morgan sad today that he meant to press the Nicaragua cal bill a vigorously a possible and he ex pressed the hope tat he might get a veto before next Wednesday the probable day or the Christmas adjournment the indications are however against such an early disposal of th subject and it maybe be accepted as quite certain that even If Senator Turles motion for potpne ment until Jan 10 should not prevail the bill will 0 naturally thrown over beyond the holidays I Is evidently the pUrse of the opposition to prevent acton during the few remaining days prior to adjournment jorment lI Morgan today Indicated his willingness t accept the Berry amendments In modified form and the bill as the Arkansas senator propose to change i has been printed for information tonThe The bill concerning the registry of for eig built vessels wrecked or the Amen ca cast Is still on the calendar a a special order and Senator Elkns will probably make another effort to secure consideration Senator Cullom has also considerton Clom aso expressed a dcsirt to get up the ant scalping bill Both thee measures will be antagonized and most probably thrown over until January There will be no effort to get up anymore any-more appropriation bills untl after the resumption of buspas In January HOUSE FORECAST Theholday redelis by the terms of the resolution reported by the ways and means committee Is to begin Thursday and extend until Wednesday Jan 4 It Is 1ml however tat the resolution will b amended so as to mate the rees begin Wednesday Instead or Thursday The appropriation bills are further advanced ad-vanced now than they have blen for many years at the short session Al read the naval and u U < Va auu ary defcIency as I special bills and three of the regular bsthe pension District of Columbia I and Indianhve passed the house The agricultural bill was reported yesterday and will 10 Ween up on Tuesday Four of the regular money bUdget out of hut I teen will therefore have passed the lower house bfore the holiday recess an I unprecedented thing In legislative annals The military academy bill could have been added to this iist had it nt been that Chairman Hull of the military at fairs committee declined to allow the attention of the committee to be drawn from the bill for the Increase of the army evenfor the limited time required tQ prepar the academy bill The latter hwevor ces will be reported before the re ceshe friends or the naval personnel bill and tim bill for the Philadelphia expect ton 9r liE have been urging the committee commit-tee on rules to grant time for their eon sldrra ton Time will be aloted for the former bill soon after the house reconvenes recon-venes after the holiday recess I Is possible that the Philadelphia exposition I bill may be called up and placed upon its passage tomorrow m tomorrow under the rules Is suspension day The bill to extend the navigation laws of the United States over Hawaii which was pending when the house adjourned may also be voted upon under suspensIon or the rle |