The Week.

The close of the session is now very near at hand and both Houses are working hard. No Funding Bill has yet been passed and as such it is written that there is no certainty that any will be passed this summer. The Tax Bill has been signed by the U.S. President, but recalled, apparently under the pressure of a powerful lobby, which sees the destruction of the whiskey-ring in the reduction of the tax. The Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment has been so long before the people that the average reader has forgotten just what it is.