Show CONGRESSIONAL WAR THIS WfK J Attack On Civil Service Law J to Be Inaugurated IT MAY BE BLOTTED FROM THE STATUTES Appropriations for the Commission Will Precipitate Conflict Whole Question of Bering Sea Negotiations Ne-gotiations May > Be Precipitated On Bill to Prohibit Pelagic Sealing Only Slight Opposition to Immigration Immi-gration Bill In SenateCarters Census Bill Holiday Adjournment Adjourn-ment Washington Dec 12if the present programme is carried out congress will adjourn for the holiday recess next Saturday The week in the house promises to be made memorable by the formal inauguration of the war against the civil service law The legislative I executive and judicial appropriation bill which will be taken up on Tuesday Tues-day contains the regular appropriations appropria-tions for the civil service commission Mid whether or not all the members v ho favor the repeal or modification of th law unite to strike down the provision pro-vision for its maintenance as the quickest quick-est and most direct method of crippling its operations remains to be seen Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly some will advocate this curse and the whole civil service juestion will be dragged into the arena nf debate How long the debate will lat it is impossible to predict but as this is the only item in the bill which will attract much of a contest Chair nn Canon hopes and believes th = bill can be psstd before Saturday This lar day under an order made on ILuisdxy 11s been set aside for paying pay-ing tribale to the memoiy of the late li lies < ntative Cook of Illinois r PROHIBIT PELAGIC SEALING Mr Hitt chairman of the foreign af j fius committee will tomorrow againSt again-St i to secure the passage of the bill to prohibit p U > aic sealing by citizens of the United States There is some j very strong opposition to the passage i of this measure in its present form and j the hole question of the Bering sea j hf gotijitions may be precipitated when j it is called up Mr Hopkins of Illinois I t na olhtr members favor a limitation jon I j-on the period of the operation of the j act n it is to be passed so that in case j Gnat Britain refuses to restrict similarly I I simi-larly her citizns our citizens may not > IIL placed at a disadvantage Others like Mr Johnson of North Dakota think the extinguishment of the seal 1r h > ds in the near future is certain and au Lot dirposed to favor any legislation i V legisla-tion looking to their preservation J SENATE FORECAST The work of the senate so far as it has been mapped out for the week includes the consideration of the im j i migration bill which stands oil the calendar rs the unfinished business the probable debate of the census bill and the pronouncing of eulogies upon the late representative Holman of Indiana In-diana The general opinion among friends of the measure i > that there will be no very strenuous opposition to the immigration im-migration bill and that it may be passed after a brief debate When a similar bill was before the senate last session it had its principal opponent oppo-nent in Senator Gibson of Maryland i and as he has retired from the senate the friends of the bill are hopeful that i no one will be found who will feel I called upon to champion the opposition opposi-tion They remember however that when it was necessary in order to have the bill become a law to pass it over the presidents veto the twothirds vote requisite for that purpose could not be secured Hence while they are hopeful of the speedy and favorable favor-able consideration of the bill they realize the possibility of delay on account ac-count of opposing speeches There appears ap-pears to be no reason to doubt that when the vote shall be reached that I I the bill will pass NEXT CENSUS By special arrangement between Senators Carter and Lodge in charge respectively of the two bills the immigration im-migration bill will be temporarily displaced dis-placed on Tuesday in order to give Mr Carter an opportunity to call up the bill providing for the next cisus When this agreement was made on last Thursday Senator Carter expressed the opinion that very brief debate would be necessary to get the bill through but there are now some indications indi-cations that the civil service question will be raised in this connection and if it should a prolonged debate maybe may-be inaugurated HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION The friends of annexation of the committee on foreign relations are now I expecting to ask the senate committee to take up the treaty during the week though quite well aware of the impossibility impos-sibility of securing final action before the holidays They are decided also upon taking the treaty up ap such instead in-stead of attempting to secure legislation I legisla-tion on a joint resolution They may postpone their request for consideration until January The senate leaders express themselves qL them-selves as agreeable to the house pro gramme to adjournment for the holidays I holi-days on Saturday The eulogies upon the late Representative Holman will be delivered on Friday |