Show i VORK BEFORE CONGRESS I Appropriation Bills Will v Right of Way THIS TRUE OF THE SENATE I Shipping Bill Will Bo Made the Unfinished L Shipping Bil Wil finished Business in the Upper House Whenever in the Opinion of Its Friends It Is Wise to Give I It That Place In the House a Sharp Contest Is Promised Over the Army Reorganization Bill When It Is Reported Back Washington Jan 20The Senate Ill lkeup i the legislative l executive and Judicial aproprlatlon bill Monday rs soon as ppsiblc after convening TJicre Is l HUe In the bill that ordl iiiavlly would create debate but It docs not seem Improbable that several days may be required to het on ° It because of the desire on the part of some Senators Sen-ators to postpone consideration of the ship subsidy bill as long as possible f Tho shipping bill will I be made the in the unfinished business whenever opinion of the friends of that measure c l 1 It Is wjse to give it that place j but I 1 In view of tho fact that It will be displaced I t dis-placed by approprlalon bills whenever f i Senators In charge of these measures J deslro to take them up i Is probable that the motion to give the bill the l place of vantage will bopostponed until I un-til after the consideration of the legislative i r legis-lative bill WAR REVENUE REDUCTION BILL Senator Aldrich chairman of the Finance committee probably wl ic commitee bin reduction revenue b1 port the war Icducton Monday or Tuesday and he will ask consideration for that Immediate measure hmnedinte The rules of the Senate give preference 1 asulc to revenue bills as they do to appropriation bills and no order of the Senate will be necessary to make the is not prob a place fOl that bill I made to able that any effort will be displace appropriation bills with that measure but all Senators seem undivided undi-vided I In the opinion that is necessary that It must become a law during the session and l there should bo an occasion casion when It would be necessary to casion decide between It and some bill other than an appropriation bill the preference prefer-ence almost certainly would be given to the revenue bill The present impression I im-pression however Is that this bi1 pleBlol will soon be disposed of Democratic Senators probably will make an et fort to secure additional reductions but falling in this will vote for the The pension and Military academy appropriation bills also are on the calendar cal-endar and will receive early atten appropriation bill tion The Indian approprIaton bi ion reported early in the week but J will not be pressed Senator Morgan has not Indicated his purpose with refercnce to the j Nicaragua canal bill but his friends say that he will delay a reasonable time and that if England does not act r upon the amendments to the Hay Pauncefote treaty he then will move consideration of the canal bill Renewed efforts will be made Mon day or Tuesday in executive session I to secure the confirmation of Mr J t Harlan as AttorneyGeneral fdr Porto Rico and also to secure ratification r ratifica-tion of the treaty with Spain for tho I cession of the remaining islands of the Philippine group 1 l lhlpplnc goup 4 HOUSE FORECAST r1 The House will devote most of Its attention at-tention during the coming week to I appropriation bills most of them District I Dis-trict of Columbia fortifications naval postofilcc andagricultural being ready for consideration At the outset how rorcobsleraton outset 1f P 1 i ever there will bo a day or two given 1 to other measures having right of way r i I > The army reorganization bill will be reported back promptly from the Committee I Com-mittee on Military Affairs probably I tomorrow and sent to conference with I a general disagreement to all small I amendments It may b reported back during the latter part of the week and I a sharp contest Is promised Mr Richardson Rich-ardson of Tennessee the minority leader having intimated that there 3Vlll be a discussion ot each paragraph para-graph The District of Columbia is entitled p to tomorrow and will seek to hold the day tq the consideration of local measures meas-ures The bulky postal codification bill ly I also before the House as a continuing con-tinuing order and will require much I of the time not given to appropriation bills Efforts are making to have the bill to promote the efficiency of the revenuecutter service made a special order for Tuesday I The appropriation bills above referred t re-ferred to will consume the time during thu rest of the week except Friday I l I which Is private pension day and Saturday dl I Sat-urday when eulogies to the memory Mi I be of pronounced the late Senator Gear of Iowa will |