The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-01-21
FOR THE NEW CONGRESS.
Mon In Both Parties Favor An Extra Ses-
sion.

WASHINGTON, Jan. l3.-The belief
that President Harrison will find it nee
essary to call the Fifty-second Congress
into extra session in the spring is gain
ing ground among the Democratic Sen
ators, and a good many Republican Sen
ators will not be surprised if it happens.
On the Democratic side Of the chamber
the telling is becoming quite general
that an extra session will be good
thing for tne party, and there are some
Republican Senator'S who think it might
be of advantage to their r-seccrtv
Democratic Senators are looking for
more or less friction and pickering In
handling the enormous Democratic ma
jority in the next House Of Representa-
tives, composed Of so many new men.
They have notion, too, that among the
majority will be found several "cranks," :"
who may have chance to do the party
harm before they are found out, and the
best means of suppressing whom will
have to be developed as their traits de-
velop. Wild and visionary schemes,
which will never be enacted into law,
but which will be annoying to financial
and business interests, are sure to be
brought forward, and the Democratic
party will be held responsible for them.
Even if every Democratic Representa-
tive was a conservative, it would take a
long time to get a House having so
many new legislators into good working
order.
The Democratic. Senators have con-
stantly in mind the fact that a Presiden-
tial election will be held next year, and
that the record made at the first session
of the next Congress will have great
deal of influence upon the result. So,
they argue, it will be good thing if, at
an extra session in March or April, the
Democrats can have the chance to be-
come acquainted with each other. The
new members can "learn the ropes Of
Congressional legislation, and then the
Democrats can come back for the regular
session in December in good working
So1aoT S1daooTT asGGa all prepared to avoid mistakes
that will hurt II the Presidential cam
paign. -=z-.,ys~-.
Such Republicans as favor an extra
session do so because they expect to see
the Democratic majority in the House
get into trouble in consequence Of its
unwieldy size and the radical notions Of
some of its Alliance and other elements,
and they argue that the sooner the
Democrats begin making blunders and
creating factional dissenslons, the better
it will be for the Republicans.
But whatever may be the opinion of
the majority of the Senate as to the
desirability of an extra session, the
course of the Senate so far has been
precisely that best calculated to force
such session. The present session be-
gan December /, and will end March 4,
so that less than two months remain,
yet the entire time up to Monday last
was wasted upon the PARTISAN force
bill, and since then the finance bill has
held the floor. a few puplic building
bills and some private measures have
been acted on at odd moment, now and
then, but none of the important public
measures which ought to receive atten-
ton, and not one of the great apprO-
priation bills, which must be passed if
an extra session is to be avoided, has
yet been acted upon.
The finance bill will remain the un-
finished business until at least the close
of Wednesday ssitting, so that one-half
the session will have passed with not
more than one important measure dis
posed of. If it had been the design Of
the Senate majority to force an extra
session the record of its work for the
first half of this session would be re-
garded as convincing evidence that
the design would be successfully carried
ont