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Show The Work Before the House. Washington, January 4. The most interesting inter-esting and important feature of the present week in . the House of Representatives will be the announcement of the membership of the various committees which will formulate the work to be done by the Forty-ninth Congress. Con-gress. Throughout the holiday recess Speaker Carlisle has been engaged in forming form-ing the committees, and to-day he occupied one of the rooms at the Capitol, and denying deny-ing himself to all callers, devoted himself to the completion of the task.. . Unless something some-thing unforeseen should happen, the result of his labors will be announced to the House to-morrow, immediately after the reading of the journal. Then in obedience to the order of the House, the call of States for the introduction in-troduction of bills and resolutions will be resumed at the point where it was interrupted interrupt-ed by the adjournment for the holidays. The call will probably not be completed until un-til late Wednesday afternoon. The 1,004 bills introduced the day before recess were introduced by eighty-nine members, an average aver-age of over eleven bills to each Representative. Representa-tive. Should this average be kept up, nearly 3,000 measures will be referred on Tuesday and Wednesday to the newly-appointed committees. com-mittees. The Hoar Presidential succession bill remains re-mains upon the Speaker's table, and though an attempt may be made to pass it, by unanimous unani-mous consent, it will, in all likelihood, be referred to the committee having jurisdiction jurisdic-tion over its subject matter. Should this be done, the House will find itself Thursday without any business before it, and an adjournment ad-journment until Monday will probably be taken to enable the committees to organize and to consider and to report on the proposed pro-posed legislation. The bill to fix the salaries salar-ies of the Judges of the District Courts, and the resolution of inquiry with regard to the action of the authorities of Dakota are the unfinished business of the Senate. The committees of that body are expected to begin be-gin work in earnest during the week, and it is expected that not much legislative work will be undertaken in the Senate other than the consideration of the two measures named. Probably a large part of the time of the Senate will be spent with closed doors, in an endeavor to dispose of the accumulated accu-mulated nominations. , |
