The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1893-04-22
STILL TALKING OF AN EXTRA
SESSION.

SESSION.
1t iE again announced that special
session of congress Is to be called the
first of September, says the Inter
Ocean, or not later than the fifteenth
of that month, or the first of October.
This time it is added that Mr.. Cleve-
land does not think he will change his
mind. Perhaps he will not, but judg-
ing from the record of his first month
in Office he is very liable to change his
mind several times before the spring
and summer are over. No president
has ever shown such agility in climb
ing from one side of fence to the
other as Grover Cleveland. and he
seems to be getting more agile every
day. His last feat of the kind was
on the giving out of the announce
ment of the removals of the fourth.
class postmasters Hardly had he
gwen out the order for the suppress
sion of the news before he counter
manded it. The hornets of the WASH
ington press got after him before
night and he was stung into crying
for quarter almost instantly. The
truth is, that every known rule laid
down by him he proceeded forthwith
to violate, seeming to think that vio-
latlons and not exceptions prove the
rule. Of course such President may
change his mind a dozen times in a
season and not excite our especial
wonder.
As matter of fact congress ought
to convene as early in the fall as the
weather permits But September is
the worst of all months in Washing
ton. 1t is hot, sultry and miasmatic.
Between the blazing sun by day and
the fogs Of the Potomac flats by night
Washington is about the worst imagi-
nable hole for September. But when
the nights begin to be cool and frosty
it is delightful, and congress should
get down to business early enough to
get through before the next summer
solstice.
With few exceptions the congress-
men will have no public affairs to keep
them at home. The only state cleo
tions of next November are four, all
told, namely, Iowa, Maryland, Ohio,
and Virginia, and none at all in Octo-
Der. In Maryland and Virginia there
will be no contest at the polls. The
president is not suspected of any very
lively interest in Boies of Iowa. If
he should be turned down by the peo-
pie next fall the grand lama of the
White House would see in its right
eous retribution for the efrontery of
being bona 6de and Incorporating
candidate for the presidency before the
Chicago convention of last summer.
He didn't make haste to get out of the
way, either, when he saw the mighty
car of Juggernaut coming down the
road, as did the more thrifty Isaac P.
Gray, of Indiana. Gray has already
entered upon his reward, while Boies
and the Iowa Democracy generally
seem destined to hear only the awful
malediction, "Depart from me, ye
cursed" But while Mr.. Cleveland |
might be quite willing to pi Governor
Boies' form, he must feel very anxious
to defeat Governor Mckinley for re-
election. Neither he nor his advisers
will fail to take into account the prob
able effect of an extra session upon the |
campaign of that state. Eleven of the |
twenty-one members of the house from |
that state are Democrats, but they |
could all be absent from the stump |
and never be missed. As for Senator
Brice, he has only to send his contrl-
button to the campaign fund. No
other service is required of him. On |
the whole the campaign can hardly be
called an objection to an extra session.
The really serious question is not
when the work shall begin, but how it
shall proceed. The Democrats can
hardly remember when they had such
unlimited power as now. 1t has fallen
to their lot but seldom. They had it
late in Jackson's second term. when
they overturned the National bank
and reduced the tariff. The hard
times of 1887 followed almost imme-
diately. They had it again in 1854,
and the birth of the Republican party
was the first result. The hard times
of 1857 and the rebellion of 1861 fol-
lowed in their natural sequence. The
generation which knew that series of
events and felt the agony of it had to
pass away before the Democratic party
could make another clean sweep of the
country and once more be jntrusted
with all the reins of national authority.
If Mr.. Cleveland had more informa-
tion and less conceit, he would look
forward to the next session of congress
with no little apprehension, and that
for his own reputation, the future of
his party, and the good of the country.
"
Democratic papers exultingly ex-
claim, ''Carlisle is master of the sit
uation," and still as secretary of the
treasury he does not stop the enormous
export of gold, which threatens to
cause a financial panic, This has been