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Show Congress' Holiday Recess. Washington, December 15. In the House to-day, Morrison, of Ilinois, offered a concurrent con-current resolution providing for a holiday recess from December 22d to January 5th; laid over for ene day under the rules. Morrison then called up the report of the committee on rules which was presented yesterday, yes-terday, and proposed a new code of rules; read at length. At Morrison's suggestion the reading of the report itself was dispensed with, and general debate opened by Morrison with a short explanation of the proposed revision. There was nothing new, he said, in his proposition. prop-osition. He had merely grouped such of the propositions as had been submitted to the House from time to time as were believed to be essential to a speedy organization of the House, to proper distribution of its work, and to more conservative and economical legislation. After touching briefly upon one or two of the minor changes proposed, he argued in support of the distribution of the labors of the appropriation committee. Randall followed Morrison-, speaking at length.- He said that the tendency of the work of the Committee on Appropriations was to increase the public expenditures of the Government. He instanced the River and - Harbor bill, which had, been increased from an average of seven millions when in possession of the appropriation appro-priation committee to an average annual expenditure of more than thirteen millions. |