Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-14
AN EXTRA SESSION.

sprlng Meeting OF Congress.
Waahingtoa, Dec. 11.-One of the
most earneet advocates OF the admission
of the Dakotas, end person very much
interested foEeother reasons in the coll.
ing Of sn extra session, has just been
making personal canvass OF the mem
bers of both houses TO ascertain the feel.
Ing on that subject. The result ls upon
the whole more encouraging than there
Uas any reason TO expect, although it
reveals IN the clearest light the motives
OF opposition. Not only In the senate
but in the house ia there the strongest
reluctance to undergo the constant and
tedious laboYs involved in a session next
spring upon the heels of thesaimost con-
tlnuous sitting OF last year. But paral.
lei with this feeling runs the almost
universal conviction that the session is
| necessary aud inevitable, cost what sacri.
| foe OF personal convenience it may.
Nearly every senator deprecated the
calling OF congress togethe-, but ell but
one or two believed that it would be done
| nevertheless. The feeling IN the house
| is much stronger. Among the most
| prominent western members desire goes
along with expectation, and the extra
session is not only accepted as necessary
bat urged as duty the republicans owe
to the country. Most OF the represent
! tatiyes and somo OF the senators from
the northwestern states, within the i'm
mediate range of the Influences proceed
ing from Dakota feel that it is both un-
just end uupolitic longer TO neglect the
claims OF the territories; members from
ir>k ta r,fk NO kxu III
by influences 10 less potent.
The demand for some sort CT settle
ment OF the tariff is making ithelf felt in
a very practical way. Industrial enter
prises oil over the country, grown tired
OF inacsion, indecision and uncertainty,
require that congress- shall take some
action upon the tariff, no matter what,
or at leass resolve definitely upon nom
sctionr that they may know positively
under what conditions trade and indus
try are 10 be carried on duling the next
two or three venrs. This is not 6 de-
mand for free trade or for protection,
bat for settled policy OF some kind. 1t
is not clamor for change, but demand
ioT certainty. Representatives. of large
Industries say they have been kept for
, Iswo years in g state OF uncertainty, with
the threat hanging over their heads OF
changes thst might severely affect their
lbuslness. III these changes are to be
made they want to know it and adjus,
themselves TO them as best they may
III they were not to be made tley wsnt
30 know that aud resume the norma
course OF operasions, suspended during
r the season of uncertainty. They have
waited patiently through two sessions o.
congress- and until after general elec-
tion for the determination OF the issues
| of politics With which their business in
seresls are bound np. They think 1t un
reasonable that they shoaid be Kept wait
ing longer. TIE business community il
/. growing very impatient for the estab.
a lishment OF o 6xed policy upon the tariff
II wants congress TO do something o
. nothlng, and that pretty quick.
This impatiepce is very clearly re-
/ vehled among representatives, OF indus
!, trial Interests who come here, in com
munications to members of congress
! from their constituents and in the yari
i GUS mouthpieces of public opinion. L
9 | is visible in oil parts of OF the csuntr,
a among importers who ere obliged t.
\ lialt their orders and manufacturer
a who are compelled to limit their outpu
, to the immediate demand, in view OF tn
4 L
= and among consumers OF i'm
: ported and manufactured articles, VIII
a are reluctant to make necessar,
. purchases in view OF the possibility o.
4 changes which will enable them tn bu.
{ on better terms. These consideration
! have created partial paralysis OF trad
r and industry which every body interested
a thinks has lasted quite long enough
I The demand for settled policy, begin
: ming to be urgent everywhere, is moa
n clamorous in those parts Of the countr:
r where the indurtrial population is In
;. creasing and new menufec.ures ar
: having their birth and in the younge
manufacturing districts of the souther
Il border states end in the natural ge
r region of Indiana. ] hear Of new indus
/ trial plants waiting TO be establishe
n and idle capital waiting for ipvestmen
n in these localities so soon as coperet
4 shell graciously determine under whf
i conditions business shalt be carried OF
4 The very life and prosperity OF impoi
tantloommnnitles is held in suspcn.
a till these questions shall be decided,