The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-30


will be decided coon after the House re-
conveaes Jan. 8. The opponents Of the in
come tax. led. Ii Is understood, by Senator's
Hill and Quay, will make a desperate fight
In the Senate and will exhaust every parlia-
mentary expedient to defeat it. Mr. Quay
II Is said, has added largely TO the accumu-
lated speech with which ne proposed talk
ing ing the tariff bill to death at the last ses-
IN the wool schedule, and is prepared to
stand long siege He already has enough
manuscript. 1t Is said to consume months
port, believes the efforts o. the income tax
opponents will. be successful Many Demo-
cratic members OF the Senate, however, af-
rect to believe that the ultimate defeat of
the bill before adjournment is impossible
II 1t should fail extra session would be
imperative II the administration proposes to
The currency bill, offered by the admins
tration as means of partially relieving the
treasury. Is regarded as OF paramount i'm
portance- The condition of the treasury is
CRITICAL. The gold reserve Is dwindline rap
IDLY and another bond issue Is regarded as
inevitable If nothing is done 70 prevent the
present drain of gold. Mr.. Cleveland. IL is
understood on high authority. is very much
IN earnest in his desire for some legislation
at this session to relieve the treasury, and
IL II Is not forthcoming there are many who
believe he will Immediately copvoke the
f11ty-fourth Congress and ask tn. needed
relief or his political adversaries. II must
many of the Republican leaders who are
opposed to any tactics which will make an
extra session necessary. They believe from
poiicy, and will not encourage or even abet
any movement looking to that end
should Mr. Cleveland call an extra ses-
SION ne viii be the second President since
the war to convene Congress in extraori-
nary nary session twice during his term of Of
extra session in August of last year inc mo
extra session had been called since 1879
~nen MI Hayes called an extraordinary
mat session was forced by several riders
which the Democrats, who had control of
the House, had placed on the army appro-
prlation bill. One of them repealed the law
the Democrats had elected a narrow ma ior-
lty TO the ensuing House on that aston
the brief time allowed Mr.. Hayes for the
representa- tives-elect to reach Washington
1.-TWO weeks made ii almost impossible for
them TO organize the House. The Demo-
CRATIC national committee, it will be rernem-
bered. on that occasion ran a special train
across the continent from Oregon TO bring
representative Whitaker here in time to
time, Following as il did on the famous
Hayes-Tilden controversy. but the train
arrived in season, beating all records of
transcontinental travel up TO that time An
other episode of that organization was the
dramatic ana tragic entrance into the
| House OF Representative Lay of Missouri
| who was very i'll and who was carried To
the Capitol on a stretcher that he might
complete the vote necessary to make
Samuel Randall Speaker He voted, but
| was carried from the chamber, never to
| enter IL again. OF course ,nere would be nc
| necessity for such heroic means of procur-
remote corners of the Country rpm If there ere
| should be an extra session OF the Fifty
fourth Congress called almost Immediately
| third, as the Republican majority i'm tn.
House Is overwhelming. But as the Senate
/ VIII be close there might be something ex-
citing IN the organization of the upper