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Show measures in Congress This Week. Washtnoton, January 31. After the call of States in the House to-morrow it will be in order for any member to move to suspend sus-pend the rules and place any measure upon its passage, or to adopt resolutions expressing express-ing the sense of the House upon any question ques-tion pending in Congress. An early adjournment adjourn-ment is probable as a means of preventing the offering of any resolution to commit the House upon , f THE SIIiVEB QUESTION Before that subject shall have received careful care-ful consideration by the committee having jurisdiction over it. Tuesday will be devoted de-voted to the delivery of eulogies on the late Vice-President Hendricks; the morning hour on Wednesday to the f urther discussion of theDingley shipping bill. In the morning hour the Hatson bill to increase the pensions of widows will be the unfinished business. The committee on banking and currency have instructed Mr. Adams, of Illinois, to call up for action during the course of the week his bill to authorize national banks to increase their capital stock. The general bill applicable to THE FITZ JOHN POBTEB CASE May be called up if an opportunity offers next Thursday. Private bills will monopolize monopo-lize attention in the House on Friday. Upon any day of the week political discussion discus-sion may be forced upon the House regarding regard-ing Boutelle's resolution. The Dakota bill and the electoral count bill both stand upon the Senate calendar as unfinished business, and are. therefore in positions of mutual antagonism as to the order of their consideration. There will be a consultation to-morrow morning between Senators Harrison and Hoar having these measures respectively in charge, as to which shall be the first to be proceeded with. Whichever is taken up will ; probably consume the greater part of the week. . The bill to divide " . THE SIOUX BE3EBYATION Holds its place at the head of the calendar for the morning hour. It was near the point of action more than a week ago, but every time it has been reached the entire Indian question has been opened up and the morning morn-ing hoar has not been found long enough to dispose of the fresh amendments which this fruitful topic suggested. ATTOENET-GENEEAL GAELANO'S LEETEH Declining to furnish the papers called for i T5y the Senate relating to the Dustin case, will be laid before the Senate at the next executive session. . The secret proceedings of the Senate thereafter are likely to bo very interesting ?o participants, and, if they are allowed to" leak out, will be equally so to the public. Mr. Conquest Clark, recently appointed clerk of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, tendered his resignation to Mr. Belmont, Bel-mont, chairman of the committee, immediately immedi-ately on the publication of the attacks on hia political record. In his letter of resignation, resigna-tion, Mr. Clark says: "I deem it due to you as well as to myself to say that in all the thousands of pages of testimony called forth by the Presidential muddle, there is not one line of proof to sustain any charge against my personal integrity.". |