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Show IN SENATE AND HOUSE. Action on the Presidential Succession Bill Expected Before Adjournment. Adjourn-ment. B. Gratz Brown Dies of Pneumonia and Heart Disease Yesterday Morning. - An Appeal to Hendricks' Admirers for Contributions to the Monument ; Fund. The Senate and House Business. Washington, December 13. Four hundred and seventy bills and joint resolutions have been introduced in the Senate, tout only two committees have yet held their first meeting, and no measures have been reported back to I the Senate, and. no calendar has therefore been made. Beyond the probable passage : of ... . . To be reported on Monday, and the adoption of -Frye's resolution embodying a code of joint roles, no programme for legislative business during the week can be indicated. Four hundred and fifty-six nominations have been sent to the Senate, and many of them will probably be reported, at the first executive session. : . ; . : A considerable portion" of the" latter half of the week is likely to be spent with closed doors. ; - . ,'t Although the Committee on Itules of the' House has completed its labor of formulating a new eotfs of rules for the government of the HousY, and will submit its report tomorrow, to-morrow, it w not thought probable the discussion dis-cussion . will be begun. It is expected THE DEBATE WTIA BE POSTPONED TTNTTIj TUES- . DAT In order that members may have an opportunity opportu-nity to see the proposed revision in print. 1 here, is a desire on the -part of many members to have a call of States Monday, for the introduction of bills for reference to appropriate committees when appointed, and in deference to this desire it was informally in-formally agreed by members of the committee com-mittee on rules yesterday to make no opposition oppo-sition to such a call. There are, however, how-ever, members of the House who express ex-press an intention to oppotsa the introduction, intro-duction, of bills, until the House shall have finally determined by a vote on the Morrison code the jurisdiction of the various committees, and who hold it to be useless to inundate the Speakers table with a flood of bills till some proper outlet is provided pro-vided for them. As the House is not governed gov-erned at present by any definite system of , rules, these members contend it will require ; the unanimous consent to order a (call, and assert that this cannot be obtained. DISCUSSION OF THE BULKS V Will consume the remainder of the week, and the contest over the scheme to distribute the labor of the Appropriation Committee promises to be Bharp and interesting. There is talk of adjournment for holiday recess .before the end of the week, but no definite plans have been arranged, and it is probable adjournment will not be reached until the week following. ' |