St. Paul Daily Globe

REED'S PRIZE CODE.
The House Will Give It a Little Attention This Week.
Serious Opposition From the Democrats Is Not Expected.
The Blair Chestnut Still Has the Right of Way in the Senate.
Morgan, Dorchester and Warmoth Are Still on the Rack.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The new code of rules will be the chief subject of interest to come before the house of representatives for consideration this week. It is the intention of the committee on rules to call it up as soon as possible and ask the house so to limit debate as that final action on the subject may be reached within two or three days. While there are many features of the new rules that are obnoxious to the Democrats, it is not probable that the opposition will be manifested otherwise than by speeches and by adverse votes upon them, provided the minority are afforded what they regard as reasonable time for discussion. Probably by the time the rules are disposed of the committee on elections will have reported the contested election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton from West Virginia, and action upon that case will consume the remainder of the week, with a possible exception in favor of the unfinished business, which is the bill to extend the circulation of the national banks. There are indications that the Blair educational bill, which has the right of way in the senate, will run through the week, and perhaps a longer period before a vote is reached upon it. The author has not yet finished his speech, and a number of senators are ready to follow him with set speeches on the same subject. The bill in charge of Senator Platt, to organize a territorial government for Oklahoma, will probably be disposed of in the morning hours, and any odd ends of time therewith remaining will be devoted to miscellaneous "unobjectionable" business on the calendar. In the executive sessions, the senate, it is expected, will consider the nominations of Gen. Morgan, to be commissioner of Indian affairs; Dr. Dorchester, to be superintendent of Indian schools, and ex-Gov. Warmoth, to be collector of customs at New Orleans, all of which are subject to controversy.