Show WORK PLANKED I FOR THE SOLONS Senate Has the River and Harbor Bill WILL TAKE SOME TIME SAXTA MONICA HARBOR A STIDIB LINt BLOCK Forthcoming Volume on Foreign Relations for the Past Year Will Contain Many Statement of Intense In-tense Interest A New Era in the Treatment of Foreigners in China Predicted WASHINGTON May 3The senate programme for next week is first to take up the river and harbor bill and when that is disposed of to follow folow with the bill making appropriations for the District of Columbia Opinions differ very widely as to the time the river and harbor bill will consume con-sume but no estimates place it at less than two or three days Vhether it shall go on longer will depend upon the political temper of the senate I as is not improbable something should be said t open up a political debate similar to that of last week there is no telling to What length the discussion discus-sion may be drawn out The managers will make a strenuous effort to keep politics and several financial questions in the background and to hold the discussion dis-cussion down to the merits of the bill This may be accomplished by a promise of an opportunity to discuss thePeffer bond resolution or some other political question before final adjournment The principal subject of debate in connection with the bill itself is the amendments suggested by the committee com-mittee on commerce providing for the expenditure of 3000000 for the improvement im-provement of the harbor at Santa Monica Cal Senator White of that state will offer an amendment making the appropriation dependent upon the recommendation of a committee of engineers which he will propose and incase in-case this amendment is lost will make an effort to defeat the entire proposition proposi-tion He will be supported by five or six members of the committee commitee on commerce com-merce especially by Senator Berry They will make an effort to show that the appropriation has been provided for at the instance of the Southern Pacific Pa-cific railroad > and it is not improbable that there may be a foretaste of the Pacific railroad discussion in this connection con-nection There will be effort necton wi an during dur-ing the week on the part of the Republican Re-publican senators to agree on an order of business for the remainder of the session |