Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-02
AN EXTRA SESSION.

Generally Conceded that Congress Must
Meet in the Spring.
Il. a, Oarl's Washington Gorrespon-
dence st. Paul Pioneer Press: People
are not talking SO much about an extra
session of congress ss they were q few
weeks ego; but they are thinkiog more
about it. While those who want an
extra session for purposes of their own
were clamoring for it, and those who
dread 1t az an interference with their
personal plans and personal comfort
were clamoring against it, arguments in
dependent OF personal preference have
been accommodating and the logic of
events has been steadily pressing on
Wa!d ID Its favor. Consideration of
these pressing arguments and reasons
has gradually taken the place OF personal
feeling on the subject in the minds of
senators and mem oers of congress. The
question is treated more seriously as
time goes on. The first evidence OF this
charge of attitude is the almost entire
disappearance of discussion. Senators
and representatives talk very little on
the subject. Those who talk st all CON.
fine thems elves to the statement that an
extra session seems inevitable. That
seems to be about all there is to say
about it. The arguments against the
session so freely heard in the senate q
month ago have been allowed to drop
out of sight. They are as strong as
eyer and as Influential as ever with the
senators who used them. Probably q
great majority Of the present senate
would be heartily glad TO avoid an extra
session. But they admit to themselves
that their own objections are trivial and
not to be considered when compared
with the public reasons daily accumu-
latlne IN favor of calling the next con-
gress together in the epring, or at least
before the regular time OF nesting in
the fall.
The opposition to ON extra session has
faded away like the loud and earnest
protest against the appointments OF
Blaine to the cabinet. Not that people
have been converted, but that they are
convinced that the thing is inevitable
and that the only rational course for
them is to make the best of it. A large
mGjority of the republican leaders in the
house, including all the candidates Cor
si;eaEe., earnestly desire an eS..a ses-
sion, while the minority have accepted
it as necessary and inevitable, though
rot desirable thing. The situation is
reversed in the senate. The minority
actively desire it and the majority have
come to accept it as inevitable. The
best Judgment as to Gen. Hsrrison's at.
titude places him in the category with
those senators who are most OPT osed to
an extra session on grounds OF personel
preference. Most willing to incur un-
uusal lsbors and make extreme conees.
sions to avoid il, yet most determined to
meet ana accept the inevitable when il
clearly appears that it can't be avoided
The three old arguments for an extra
session, the necessity of organizing the
house, of reducing the surplus, and OF
admitting the northwestern territories
still remain in full force, and q fourth
has been added, the necessity of re-
establishing definite and intellieihle
policy of foreign relations. To admit
this is not to magnify the importance oil
the Samoan incident. That of itself is
of less Importance than the bundle OF
misunderstanding and complications at
home and abroad, whloh Secretary Bay
ard has permitted to grow up about It
The gist OF it is that Bayard has got
into scrape, from which, neither he
himself, nor the president can ext-icsse
him.