The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. d. t., NOV. ID, 1874.
President elect Cleveland will not call.an ex-
ira session of Congress unless the Republican
Senate shall at the coming session by hanging
up or defeating some necessary appropriation or
measure, compel him to do so." The speaker OF
the above is a Democrat who took a prominent
part in the campaign and who has just returned
from New York. where he had number OF con-
ferences with the president elect. He is opposed
to an extra session of Congress believing that 1t
would be bad business as well as bad politics. as
indeed do many other Democrats who were at
first inclined to think it good policy to hold an
extra session for tariff legislation. Unless the
prominent Republicans who have turned up in
Washington since the election mistaken an
attempt is to be made in the Senate to make an
extra session necessary by leaving undone things
that ought to be done This is not to be done
openly but by parliamentary chicanery at Wnlcn
the Republican senators $50 eadspts------
Senator Carlisle, who is regarded By many as
the next secretary of state. thinks Mr.. Cleve-
lan6's little speech at tn 9 banquet of the New
York Chamber of Commerce will have happy
effect in counteracting the eauseless business
scare which the Republicans are trying so hard
to extend over the country. The sensible men
of the country know full well that the prosperity
of this country is in no danger at the hands OF
the Democratic party. but if they had been ever
so uneasy these words from Democracy's chosen
leader and president elect would be sufficient to
reassure them. I'VE are all interested as Amer
leans in a common pursuit. Our purpose is. or
ought to be- in our several spheres. to add to the
general fund of national prosperity. From this
fund we are all entitled to draw, perhaps not
equally but justly. each receiving fair portion
of Individual prosperity. Let US avoid tramp
ling on each other in our anxiety to be first IN
the distribution of shares and let US not attempt
to appropriate the share of Others" Is this the
language of conspirator against his country's
welfare, or of patriotic citizen who believes II
every man being given a chance to ENJOY tn'
greatest obtainable prosperity.
Senator Carlisle. who only stopped in w ash
ington few hours on his way to see his family
said of the extra session question: 1T will de
pend upun conditions at this time undevelopec
4 and which only time will develop. If there i
an extra session it will probably not meet unit
late in the fall. The tariff alone will not furnisl
1 sufficient reason for an extra session. The imam
| cial affairs of the government may be such as t.
| make an extra session imperative. It appear
| probable that we shall find that there is no
| enough money in the treasury for the needs o
the government. There is situation In tn
treasury which every thoughtful man who ha
considered the matter has long foreseen. Ther'
is an accumulation of deficiencies and obligations
| that have been contracted and will come over Il
US. It may be that this situation will furnish
reason enough why an extra session should b'
| called. We shall have to see what is done a
| this Congress. If the Sherman silver law be no
repealed and other action such as the situation
dem ands taken we may be swamped. Upol
| these things depend the calling of an extra ses
sion."
| Representative Wilson. of West Virginia. who
presided over the convention which nominated
Cleveland and Stevenson, and who has now gon'
| to New York upon the invitation of Mr.. Cleve
land tmany believe that he can have place II
the cabinet if he desires it, is one of the strong
| est advocates for holding an extra session o
| Congress as soon as practicable after the inaug
uration. and following are his reasons: Th
! true worth and value of tariff bill cannot b.
tested in a short time and the first effects appear
to be what they really are not. I think it woulc
be most impolitic to place new tariff bill betor
the country just previous to the elections of 1894
For this reason I favor the extra session idei
and think the sooner the proposed tariff change
go into effect the better will the final result b.
for our party"
Democratic organizations intending to come t.
the Inauguration would better get move" oil
their application for quarters or they may hav'
to sleep in tents. so rapidly are rooms being al
ready booked. The same chairman who mad
such a magnificent success of the first Cleveland
Inauguration has been put at the head ofthe cit
izens' inaugural committee and the preliminar!
arrangements are already well under way.
The crocodile tears now being shed by Secre
tary Noble and Superintendent Porter becaus
two census bureau employees have been detected
in crooked work. one trying to steal votes il
New York and the other furnishing the govern
ment false reports on Alaska. for use before tn
Behring sea court of arbitration, are odd to sa!
the least. when the record of the bureau is calle
to mind.