St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-28
The EXTRA SESSION.
Strong Movement in Favor
Of Having 1t Called at
Once.
Resolutions and Requests
Pouring In to President
Cleveland.
Cabinet Discusses the New
Phase Of the Silver
Question.
Chief Executive Will Stick
to His Announced De-
termination.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-There is a
very strong movement in favor OF an
extra session of congress at once, and
resolutions and requests are pouring in
to Mr.. Cleveland urging that he issue
call at once. Before going to New York
yesterday, Hon. P. FL. Kelly called at
the White House and presented the
views of the st. Paul chamber OF COM
merce on the matter. To this resolu-
ton Mr.. Kelly added strong plea for
an early session. This is one effect OF
the action of the government of India,
and this view of the situation was pre-
scented to Secretary Carlisle this morn
ing by many of his congressional callers
and by numerous kilograms from all
sections of the country. Before going
to the cabinet Secretary Carlisle re-
ceived a cablegram from London an
nouncing a further decline in the price
of silver to 50 pence. At this price
silver dollar is worth 5S2 cents.
Two hours were consumed by the
cabinet today in discussing the new
phase of the silver question and other
matters demanding attention. The two
conferences yesterday afternoon and
evening between the president and
Secretary Carlisle simplified matters to
some extent. Although the discus
sion, 1t is said, took a wide range, twas
necessarily brought back to one impor-
tant and unmanageable point-that the
executive had no power in the prem
Uses, congress alone being able to deal
with measures for relief. 1t was plain
to the cabinet that the monthly pur-
chase Of silver must be continued, or
else congress must be convened in spe-
cial session Immediately. AS
The President Has Decided
to call congress together in the early
part of September to deal with the
financial situation, and manifested no
intention of changing his stated pur-
pose. the project OF an earlier session of
congress. it is understood, was dropped.
So far as the continuance of the pur-
chase of silver bullion under the Sher-
man was concerned, it was pointed out
that little more than two months re-
manned before congress would convene
in extra session and that during the in
terval the silver lots purchased would
be only 100000 ounces, a compare
lively small amount in view of the
previous purchase. That the best way
to deal with the question was await the
course of events for two months longer
was generally agreed to.and it was with
this view dominant that the meeting
adjourned.
Milwaukee Speaks.
MILWAUKEE, June Glowing to the
dullness in trade, caused chiefly by the
stringency in the financial market, the
Milwaukee merchants this afternoon
gave evidence OF dissatisfaction with the
so-cailed Sherman silver, bill to which
the money tightness is solely attributed,
by forwarding a petition to President
Cleveland, asking lim to take immedl-
ate steps to have the bill repealed. The
contents of the petition were to the
effect that general dissatisfaction pre-
vailed throughout the country, and that
urgent and immediate efforts were
necessary to prevent immediate disaster
to business. The petition was signed
by nearly hundred well known mer-
chants. prominent in banking, CONNER
cial and mercantile transactions. The
prevailing opinion is that the voice
from Milwaukee will be caught up and
re-echoed through the land.