The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-07-06
EXTRA SESSION
OF Congress Called by Cleveland to Con.
vene August q,

conference with his cabinet Friday,
President Cleveland issued proclama-
tion convening congress in extra ses-
sion on the seventh of August The
proclamation reads:
EXECUTIVE MANSION July 1, 1898
| whereas the distrust and apprehension con-
| cerning ne financial situation which pervade
| all business circles, have already caused great
| loss and damage to our people, and threaten to
| cripple our merchants, stop the wheels OF man
| ufacture causing distress and privation to our
| farmers and withhold from our working men
| the wage OF labor.
whereas. the perilous position Is largely the
| result OF q financial policy which the executive
branch OF the government finds embodied in un-
wise laws which must be executed until re-
| peaed, by congress
Now, therefore, l. Grover Cleveland, president
| Of the United States In performance of a con.
| stttuttonal duty do by this proclamation declare
| that an extraordinary occasion requires the
| converting of both no ses of congress of the
United States In the city OF Washington on the
seventh day Of August next at he hour of noon
TO the end that the people may be relieved
| through legislation from present and impending
| danger and distress.
| All those entitled to act as members Of the
| Fifty-thtrd congress are required to take notice
Of this proclamation and attend a, the time and
| place above stated.
Given under my hand and the seal OF the
United States at The city OF Washington on the
3Dth day OF June, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eigh, hundred and ninety three, and
| OF the independence of the United States the
one hundred and seventeenth
GROVER CLEVELAND.
This action of the president was pre-
dicted in these dispatches two nights
ago in an interview with Senator Har-
ris, who stated that the president had
| IN, - IL, -,
gencies of the case and the pressing ne
cessities of the country he would not
stand by his former declaration, but
would call congress together on an
earlier date than that originally desig-
mated by him.
There is some question as to how long
congress will have to be in session be-
fore anything can be done looking to
the repeal of the Sherman law. Legis-
lation can be begun at once in the SEN
ate, its organization having been COM
pleted in the extra session that fol-
lowed the 4th of March. The house,
however, will delay complete organiza-
ton for some time, owing to the neces-
sity of selecting committees, adopt
ing rules to govern the pro-
ceedings of the Fifty-third con-
gress and in other routine details
connected with the genesis of new
congress. It is not at all likely, how
ever, that organization will be delayed
as long as is usually the case, as the
nearness Of the Christmas holiday or
dinarily saps the energy of the legisla-
tors and prevents their getting active
ly to work until after the New Year
has been ushered in. On this occasion,
however, the urgency of the case will
undoubtedly impel the members to con-
tinue in the labor until something has
been done to relieve the country from
existing legislation.
In the senate the silver men may
hold back legislation indefinitely until
it becomes Q question of physical en-
duSance and the majority will
simply wait until the question may be
brought to vote. The scenes attend.
ing the debate on the federal elec tions
will probably then be enacted.
Senator Voorhees,, chairman of the
financial committee, said Friday to a
correspondent of the Dalziel News
Agency that he believed the senate
would repeal the Sherman silver bill
"The financial stress in the country"
said he, ''is due to vicious legislation
now standing on our statutes, and the
sooner it is wiped off the better"
Senator Voorhees, will vote for the
repeal of the Sherman silver bill.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, also q
member of the committee on finance,
holds views similar to those of Senator
Voorhees, as to the advisa bility of calling
an extra session. He has been in favor
of calling an extra session in August
for some time past and his views of
this question were given very fully in
these dispatches two nights ago, when
he predicted the convening of congress
at an earlier date than that origin
ally set by the president He
highly commends the act Of
President Cleveland and stated Friday
evening that the results of assembling
congress at an early date would be ap-
parent in very short time to restore
confidence in the country.
Senator Gray, of Delaware, when
seen Friday evening stated that while
he had not advocated an early session
he was in no sense opposed to it. The
effect of such session would be purely
psychological in character and would do
much at present to insure feeling Of
confidence among the people, but he
did not believe that much would really
be gained by calling session of con-
gress before December.
81 believe" he said, "that the inter-
val between March and December
would have been profitably costly to
the country. The lesson would have
been more deeply engraven on the
minds Of the people and would not SO
soon be forgotten. l hoped that there
would be no extra session, not for per-
sonal or political reasons, but for the
public veal A greater experience
with the viciousness of existing
financial laws would have offset
the financial loss. The amount
of silver that would have been pur-
| chased in that time would not have