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Show gress to complete its necessary legis'a tion before the 4th of March. THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAMME. Matter Will Hare to ba I'uhed If tha Nen-eary Nen-eary I.agtftlattnn 1 Completed. Washington, Feb. 2. The senate is shaping itself with the determination to adjourn on the 4th of March without leaving behind it anything for an extra session. The fortification appropriation appropria-tion bill came up today as unfinished business, and the pension appropriation bills on the calendar and the District of Columbia appropriation bill, soon to be reported, will follow in order. In tho morning hours an effort will i be made to pass the Indian depredations I claims bill, and sandwiched between the above named appropriation bills will probably be the lighthouse bill and the copyright bill, an attempt also being made to secure action upon the house bankruptcy bill. Although tho house has "been engaged en-gaged practically the whole four weeks in consideration of the regular annual appropriation bills, these measures are still in an unusually backward state, and it is the intention of the majority to permit substantially no legislation except ex-cept the shipping bill to engage its attention at-tention until action is had on the appropriation appro-priation bills. It is the purpose of the committee on merchant marine to make an effort to call up the shipping bill and press it to a final vote as soon as the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill, now under un-der consideration, is passed; but, in view of the determined opposition heretofore here-tofore made to the shipping bill, there is some question as to the ability of its friends to carry out their expressed iu- tention, especially as it is almost as certain to be antagonized by one or more appropriation hills. Tho Indian and legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bills are on the calendar awaiting uctiou, and will be called up at the first favorable opportunity. op-portunity. Bland and the. other silver men are growing more restive at tha failure of the coinage committee to act on the silver bill, and have announced their determination, if the commiMce do not settle the matter at the regular meeting meet-ing Wednesday, to precipitate a tiht on the floor of th house w ithout wailing wail-ing for a committee report. Only fciir weeks and three days remain re-main of the tifty tnst congress, and not a single one of the thirteen annual appropriation ap-propriation bill has been finally passed by both branches of congress and sent to the president. But one of these bills has passed the seuate, the army bill. While the present condition of the appropriation bills is not encouraging, encourag-ing, as compared with tbe slate of progress in previous congresses, no doubt Js entertained by mombers of the bouse or seuuieof the ability of con- |