The Progress., 1892-11-26
FROM WASHINGTON. D. c.
Notes of Interest Gathered From Around
About the National Capital.


About the National Capital.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. November "a. 1892.
Special Correspondence to The Progress:
Will there be an extra session of Con-
gress at the opening of the Cleveland ad-
ministration? Is the question now brought
to the front by the national KALEIDOSCOPE.
Like al other questions public and pri-
vate, there are two sides to this one. On
the side of the extra session are most of
those who believe in doing thugs with a
rush; they claim that a majority of the
voters have spoken for lower tariff and
that it is the duty of the Democratic
president and Congress to give it to them
at the earliest possible moment, and that
six or eight months should be saved by
holding an extra session of Congress.
Against the extra session of Congress are
those conservative men who believe that
1T is better to be ow than to be sorry:n
they contend that it would be danger
Gus to the welfare of the great CONNER
cial interests of the country to make too
sudden change in the tariff and that it
will be much better to spend the inter-
vening tim, in deciding upon just what
| sort of a tariff law shall be substituted
for the Mckinley law, at the regular ses-
| sion, than to jump headloDg into it at
an extra session. 1t is positively claim
ed by those opposed to the extra session
that Mr.. Cleveland is with them, but
Sepator Carlisle, who has designated by
rumor as the head of the new cabinet,
says Mr.. Cleveland has not dete rIniried
the question, and will not until he has
had time to consider it in all its possible
bearings.
There are, however, two contingencies
either of which may compel Mr. Cleve-
land to call an extra session. whether hIs
personal opinion be for it or agains. it.
First, the senate and house may, at the
coming session, either Intentionally oil
unintentionally, get into a wrangle over
some of the regular appropriation bulls
that might last until the Fifty-second
} Congress expired by limitation, at noon
; on the 4th of next March. Then an ex.
ira session would have to be held to pas:
the appropriation bill or bills that had
: failed. The other contingency is that
owing tn the probability of change il
the tariff law, certainly next winter anC
it may be sooner, the government re-
ceipts from customs duties may fall 81
low rs to necessitate the calling of an ex
, ira session to provide the means for rails
, ing the money necessary to run the gov
ernment the next fiscal year; but, OF
course, they may he mistaken.
There Is u marked differences of Opin
, lou i'm the ranks of the PEOPLES Party q
2 to the future of that organization. Jer
. ry Simpson says the mission of the part,
: is endrti and that most of ITS mem ber
! will mostly go with him into the Dem
OcrAtic party. Senator PETER says Simp
: -on only speaks for one man. and tina
4 he believes the Peoples Party, unde
/. another name probably-he doesent lik
, its present one will be one of the lead
= ing parties ia the next presidential cam
: paisD, IL 1t does not elect the next presi
B dent.
r The next presidential election Is too ia
3 of 10 interest many people, but IN
= opeuiDg session Of of the Fifty-third Cor
;, gress. whether IL be regular or extra,
: near enough for everybody TO woude
whether the Peoples Party senators an
. senator Stewart, who will be re-electe
{ from Navada as an independant. wi
: vote together and dictate the legislafio
: Of the senate, rs they will have the pow
I er 10 do, il calculations of the member
b ship OF the ne xt senate now made snail tur
: out TO b. cOrrect. aud there Is little prot
/, ability of their being otherwise. The di
: rect question was asked Senator Peffe1
Y but he deciiued to even express an Opil
4 ion n the subject, saying that it was
matte for the future consideration q
' those I.iost deeply interested. he int
o mated, however, that he believet tn