Show SENATE HARD AT WORK I Disposes of Business Before It in Very Rapid Manner Washington Dec Ifhe Senate today to-day began the real I work of disposing of thC business before IL Ilhough the session lasted only an hour and a half When an adjournment was taken at 130 oclock nut of respect to the mem ory of Representatives DP Grnffcn reId and Shepard of Texas the bill to amend the Immigration laws wits under discussion Early In the tiny Mr Nelson from lie Committee on Torrllories reported a substitute for the omnibus Statehood bill with the recommendation that Oklahoma and Indian Tcirltory be admitted ad-mitted Into the Union as one State under un-der the name of Oklahoma Vhrn tho Immigration bill was brought up Mr Quay precipitated a discussion over the I status of the Statehood State-hood bill which Val dominated by a ruling from the chair that beginning December 10th It 1 would be the unfinished unfin-ished business and that at the closing hour each day it would bo laid before the Senate unless displaced by a vole of that body |