The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-29
HARRISON'S HEART
Is Set Upon the Passage of the
Federal Election Bill.
CONGRESS- WILL BE CONVENED
In Extra Session for this Purpose-The Re-
publican Programme-Th SuDineness and
Submissiveness Of Democratic Senator's.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
New YORK. Aug. ga Herald Washing
ten special says: The sincerity of Presi-
dent Harrison and his anxiety to have the
federal election bill passed by Congress
will be shown, it is said, Immediately on
the adjournment of the present session of
Congress by issuing proclamation con-
vening Congress to a ssemble in extra ses-
sion on the 10th of November Immediately
after Congress adjourns.
The regular session bea1ns this year on
Monday, December l, so that but twenty
days would be gained by such a course
Three weeks, it is understood, is all the
time necessary fer an exhaustive debate
on the proposed change of rules in the
Senate as well as on the merits of the pro-
posed legislative action in that body in
framing national election laws.
There is another reason, however, for
the proposed extra session. While it will
not begin until after the Congressional
elections, its purposes and the proclamation
conveying Congress would be known a
month or more before election. 1t Is the
| only way pointed out by the Republican
leaders in the Senate and by the members
of the national Republican committee to
keep faith with the party. Not to take
advantage of the month Of November, but
to leave the fate of the force bill to the
regular session of Congress is to openly
confess that Senator Quay, with his Demo
cratic allies, has been able to subvert the
will of the Republican party. His con-
ferees ON the national committee are dead
opposed to allowing the Democratic leaders
to claim any such advantage.
The days Of unlimited debate as means
| of obstruction in the Senate are numbered
| If the fall election should show reverse
! in the politics of the next House, the Pres
ldent's friends say that will be stronger
reason why, while this House IS Repub-
| lican and while both the House and Senate
and President are in political accord, it
behooves the Republican party to get upon
| the statute book as many laws of a national
character as can possibly be enacted. Such
legislation could only be repealed when the
Democracy have the President and ma
jority in the House and Senate, and that,
the Republicans say, will be a very long
way off, 1t is not expected this session
will adjourn before the latter part of Sep
TENDER, perhaps not until the 1st of Octo-
Der. But the above is the programme as
, outlined to me by one who knows what the
plan is.
Now that the Democratic Senators have
agreed to let the tariff bill be disposed OF
and the election bill be taken up at The
next session, the aim of the election bill
1 advocates is to make the next session as
long as it is possible as it cannot be
flengthened after. March 4. So the only
thing to do is to prefix a month.
President Harrison is so ardent an adj
vocate of the success of the force bill thai
1t is understood that he is ready to d.
everything in his power to promote tn,
work of the party. This is the programme
anyhow, and it remains to be seen whethe
the Democratic Senators will meekly ant
submissively accept the yoke they hav
taken upon themselves by their acceptanc
of Senator Quay's leadership.