Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-08

Prospects of a Long Seigs on the Financia
and Other Questions.
Washington Special Jan. b to Chicago Trib
The Congressman are returning tardily, a
if they were reluctant to go to work again
and it hardly seems probable that they viii
follow Speaker Randall's advice ut the be
ginning of the session, which was that the,
pass the appropriation bills and adjourn sin,
die in April. If the passage of these appro
priation bills was the only business befor,
Congress, this early adjournment might bt
practicable, but nine out of every ten mem
bers of the House of Representatives have
from one to dozen pet measures, calculat
ed especially to benefit their constituents, til,
passage of which will add, they think, t.
their individual strength in their respective
districts. Before another session can con
vene they will be candidates for renomina
ton and reelection, and their local bill
must be acted on at the present session il
they are to be benefited by their passage
respect for Mr.. Speaker Randall
and desire to give the Democratic party The
glory of short business session, but then
first duty they claim, is to their constituents
especially if they are thereby advancing
their chances for becoming members of the
Forty seventh Congress. The Senators will
not be forced to make political capital or
which they can draw prior to the fall cleo
tons, but nearly all of them are deeply In
terested in financial and other questions, and
quite number are always prepared to de.
liver long speeches, for there is ne hour rule
or previous question to limit debate in the
Senate. But above all is the Presidential
question. The apparent certainty that Gen
Grant is to be considered as candidate viii
induce his opponents to discuss the third
term and other questions, and the outpost
skirmishes between Blaine and Bayard may
be preliminary to the great contest in No
vember, with those great statesmen as the
leaders Of the contending hosts. Other can.
didates will be represented by their respect
i've Congressional champions, and stormy
debates on the Presidential question may bt
anticipated. The great political conventions
will meet and make their nominations ir
June. Congressman can then make cleo
pioneering speeches, extra copies of which,
costing only the expense of press-work and
paper, can be enveloped and sent over the
country free. It will be difficult for many
to resist this temptation, and the session will
thus probably be prolonged until the first OF
July. This will enable most Congressman
to advance their pet measures, to take q
hand in President making, to supply thei,
constituents with campaign documents, and
to get to their homes in time to deliver ora
tions or to reply to toasts on Independence
Day. The talk of a short session seems now
to be mere cant.
Senator Bayard has devoted good part OF
his holiday recess to the preparation of his
speech on the proposition to divest the green
backs of their legal tender quality. His
friends expect that it will materially add to
the Bayard "boom."
Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, is slso pre-
pairing speech on the same subject, which
will be antagonistic to Bayard's position. A
majority of the Democratic Senators intend
to participate in the debate on one side OF
the other.