Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-12-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Will There be an Extra Session of
Congress?
The Monetary Conference. Gossip of the
Capital.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. Q. ,a2.

apparent that there is going to be
very determined effort to induce Mr.
Cleveland to call the Fifty Third Con
gress together soon after his inaugura
tion. The talk that has been INDUCED
in on both sides of the question fol
sometime has assumed the proportions
OF an earnest agitation and considera
BILE feeling is developing. No matter
what the slow moving conservative
business interests may require nor what
the demands of the business interests
may be the great mass of Democratic
congressman, who come from districts
where the people are dissatisfied and
have been elected upon the representa-.
tion that Democratic success meant i'm
mediate relief from all ills, feel that if
they do not get to work so as at least
to appear to be doing something from
the very jump they will stand very
poor show of being again chosen to fill
the boots of statesmen. 1t is believed
that it will take great deal of argu-
ment and influence to induce Mr.. Cleve.
land to call an extra session, but there
are those who are prepared to make a
fight for it and to represent to him that
if it is not done there will be music in
the air for the Democratic party at the
very nextelection. There is suspicion
in the minds of some of the radical
tariff for revenue men that there is an
element in the party composed of few
men who do not want to make any
change in the tariff law which will to
any considerable extent disturb protec-
ton. They suspect that these men will
oppose an extra session and will do all
they can to delay and mix up the tariff
revision. Starting with fight over
the question of an extra session there
may be some pretty lively sparring be-
fore the work gets well under way.
The personal bereavements of Presi-
dent Harrison have been of such a
character as to entitle him to the SYM
pathy of the whole people. None of
his predecessors in Office have ever been
called upon to undergo such success
sion of poignantgriefs within his i'm.
mediate household and administrative
family. 1t is an experience that may
be in some degree imagined, but only
he who has added to the onerous and
exacting cares of his high office the
burden of repeated domestic Affections
can carefully understand the oppres-
siveness of its weight. Mr.. Harrison
has heretofore had, he will now more
than ever have, heartfelt and unstinted,
the coincidence of his countrymen, and
not only their coincidence, but their ad-
miration for the exalted fortitude which
he has exhibited throughout his trying
ordeals and the answering fidelity
with which he has devoted himself to
the performance of his great respousi-
bilities. His heart, though heavy, is
in his work, faithful in all things and
as constant to duty as the star to the
pole. 1t would be most gracious act
on the part of the Congresses, to which
he is about to submit his last annual
message, to extend to him in something
more than merely formal way its
sympathy for his sorrows and its cordial
recognition of the manly courage and
heroic spirit of resignation with which
he has borne them.
The estimates for the sundry civil
appropriation bill are now being sent
othe Capitol and being put into shape
for drafting into bill in the House
committee on appropriations. The es-
Inmates are coming in by galley sheets
and no footing of the total sum of the
estimates can yet be made. There ap-
pears to be a general increase in .the
estimates over those of last year, but it
can not vet be ascertained how much
the total will overrun. Unless some
decided cut is made this bill as it passes
Congress will be much heavier than
last year. About 1871 100000 worth of
river and harbor work was authorized
at the last session to be contracted for
and if these contracts have been entered
into in accordance with that authority
the sundry civil bill of this year will
have to carry the appropriations, as
there will be no river and harbor bill.
Senator Dubois said today that it was
his understanding of the policy of the
Republicans of the Senate that they
would make vigorous and earnest
fight against the revision of the tariff
on the Democratic lines. He said that
he did not think that the fight would
60 as far as filibustering or that any
merely dilatory tactics would be re-
sorted to, but would be earnest enough
to indicate very clearly that the Re-
publicans intended to stand by their
policy of protection. There was no
probability of army tariff legislation
this year, he said. and he thought the
Republicans would make the fight and
win the country to the support of pro-
lection before the Democratic policy
was well established.
The fuller publication of the Roths-
child proposal to the monetary confer
ence has provoked considerable discus
sion among those here who have been
interesting themselves in the general
financial problem. 1t is not thought