The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-01-12
MONROE. LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY I2 1889 =


devised for retief. This was the fltst
session at the twenty-tiith congress,
James n. Polk of Tennessee, speaker.
This session lasted from September 1
TO October: 16. and was wholly devoted
to the consideration Of the financial
crisis. One OF the chief topics was the
sub treasury system. The banks sus-
pended specie payments, there was
universal panic and distress, and the
specie circular was rescinded by con-
Xress.
President Harrison found II neces-
cary, on account OF financial questions,
to convene the -twenty-seventh con.
gress In special session May 81, lS4l.
This he did by proclamation of March
4, 1s4t. He did not live to sec the
meeting Of congress which he had or.
dered 10 assemble, his death occurring
on April 8. The supers,i,ious might
think that the President Harrison of
1888 would hesitate 10 convene congress
in extra session in view Of the occur
rences which these dates suggest,
There was not another called session
until 1856, when the fret session of the
hIrty fourth congress having adjourn
ed Without making provision for the
army, President Pierce convened con.
Rress In n special session for August - !,
1856. The session lasted iess than two
weeks, and the appropriation was
made. Nathaniel p. Banks, Of Massa.
chusette, who comes back TO the fifty-
fist congress, was the speaker of this
called session Of the thirty fourth con-
gress. There are few men tn public life
whose career has extended over such n
period as that.
There We're no more extra Sessions
until the war Of the rebellion. Then
President Lincoln, bY ~ proclamation
Of April IL, 1861, convened both houses
OF congress for The A,h day OF July OF
that year. Galusha A. Grow, OF
Pennsylvania, was elected speaker !;
the supply bills We're voted, and, AL
though there were very long sessions
Of congress un,il the war closed, and
congress assembled at different periods,
20 further extra session was called. Ii
was the policy of the administration
not to have adjournment-, hat To take
recesses, in order to be ready for any
contingency which might occur. ~
The tenth called session, Ike the
eighth, was due to the failure Of the
appropriation bill for maintenance of
the army. The democratic mRjori,y Of
>the house Of the iorty-filih congress
having failed to pass the regular army
appropriation biit on account OF the
very animated CONTROVERSY relative to
the use of troops ut the polls, presidenl
Hayes convened congress in extra ses-
sion on October Is, 1877, Samuel j.
Randall, OF Pennsylvania, speaker.
The army bill, after session which
lasted until December l, two days be-
fore the regular session, was passed
but it contained the noted posse
comita'us clause, which iorbids the
use Of the army ny United States mar
shats as n possee cotnitatus. 4ntn
4. The for,y-siX,h congress was con-
vened in special session March IS, 1879,
aud The session lasted until July /,
1870. This session was occasioned by
controversy which arose out of polit
icai differences between the repubIi-
cans, who had possession Of the exe-
cutive offices. and the democrats, who
had possession OF the house.