| Show washington LETTER washington dec 19 1892 congress to is looking forward as gleefully to its two beckt christmas holiday which is to begin next thursday as though it ha I 1 been in session for six months instead of two weeks and every serious proposition looking towards the transaction of business is now met with oh wait until after the recess 1 and after the recess it will have hav ejust just two months to a day to pass all of the regular appropriation bills and to with a good prospect for an extended period of filibustering in the house it il the nicaragua canal bill is in pushed as an its ita friends now say my that it 16 will be several members of the house have openly said that they would filibuster against the measure as long as nature hold held out and that they would not hesitate to hang up appropriation or any other bills to t its goiner through the house these men are not idle talkers or men who can be bought or cajoled into changing their minds but men man who are conscientiously opposed to the principle involve i in that bill and faed to fight it with all the parliamentary weapons at their command those who favor the extra session of the next congress and fear that mr cleveland will not call it whatever they may think of the nicaragua canal bill are not likely to overwork themselves to prevent the failure of one or more appropriation bills billa which would make an extra session a necessity the opponents of the anti option bill are no now w loudly claiming that the pant week in the senate has demonstrated that the bill to is as good as an defeated they claim the failure of senator washburn to get a day named to vote on the bill before the holiday la is a victory also aleo the deciding vote in favor of adjournment oat caa oa t by vice president morton when the senate was a tie on the question of adjourning from th thursday urs to monday or sitting bitting ou ol friday for the consideration of the ati ati option bel senator peffer says for congress to repeal that section of the interstate commerce law which prohibits pooling by railroads as the railroad road men are now asking would be to undo the whole law its ae according to his understanding at the time the prevention tf of railroad pooling was the principal object aimed at in the enactment of the law jaw representative otis of kansas tried to got get unanimous consent for the adoption of a resolution by the house instructing the ways anu ana means committee to report a bill providing for an income tax but objection was raised by representative springer chairman of that committee the commissioner of internal revenue estimates that if the tax on whisky be increased from 90 cents t a gallons gallon as an proposed by a bill introduced by representative scott ot it would add to the revenue of the government for the fiscal year beginning july 1 1893 it la Is not a however that mr bill will ever got get reported to the house as chairman get ger of the ways and means committee which would have to report it is on record as opposing an increase of more than ten cents a gallon in the tax on whisky representative hatch chairman of the house committee on agriculture predicts that the duty on sugar will be restored by the next congress and the pree ent cent bounty on dome domestico domeet stio iu sugar abolished post office department officials arev are chuckling over having discovered and put it a stop to some thrifty tricks among the fourth class postmasters just after the result of the election became known resignation of republican post masters accompanied by recommend allons for the appointment of their successors to into the de apartment parl part ment at first the resign resignations aLious were accepted and new appointments made but the number of resignations and recommend recommendations abiona became so BO large that suspicion was aroused and an in vesti gation made then it was learned that the retiring postmasters eters were making a good thing out of turning their offices loes over to the who of course hoped to be able to retain their hold on the effiee under the cleveland administration mr wannamaker then issued iacued an order that no resignation of postmasters were to be accepted for the remainder noer of this administration except for some borne extraordinary cause there in ie a very decided difference of opinion existing as to the he motive that representative antony of texas texa had in introducing his bill providing for a kus suspension pension of the granting of pensions pe naiona under the dt d pendent law and the stopping of sill all payments upon pensions pen Biona that have been granted under that law mst meat people believe that mr A is ie a sort of chauk at any rate he must have known that such euch a bill aven if allowed to be voted on by the committee of rules rule cc could uld bot ot poil pou bly obtain a corpor corporals alPs guard of votes votes in the house |
