The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-01-04

From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON December 31.-PreSident
Cleveland is the only man who has the author
ity to call an extra session OF congress, put
that little fact, important as it happens to be,
is being entirely overlooked by those who have
relieved the President of all trouble IN the mat
ter and assumed his authority without even
saving, by your leave, sir, and who are now
busy arranging all the details of the extra
session. President Cleveland has not said ina!
he would call an extra session, but Dotn ne anu
Secretary Carlisle sometime ago ponte9 OUT 10
leading Democrats that some sort OF reHeI
must soon be had Tor the Treasury, ana tnat II
this Congress failed to provide Unnecessary might
compel the calling of an extra session. Inc
situation has not changed. The calling OF an
extra session depends largely upon the action
or non-action of the Democrats in the present
Congress. 4,
The Republican leaders would regard the
calling of an extra session OF Congress as
great misfortune for their party, although
some of the small fry are staggering around
talking about what we'd do" Inc leaders
know that just soon as financial bill is re-
ported to the Republican House, situation
not widely differing from that existing in the
present House will at once be developed that
the financial differences are quite as marked III
their own in the Democratic party hence
their dread of an extra session the year before
a Presidential campaign.
Although u large proportion OF the Demo-
cratic members OF the House have returned TO
Washington. there is nothing in sight upon
which to predict with any degree of certainty
what will be done with the Carlisle currency
reform bill. In order that there might be no
misunderstanding and that every Democratic
member might feel at liberty to propose
amendments, President Cleveland has allowed
it to be perfectly understood that he is not
welded to any particular plan of currency re-
form, but is ready to join hands with the Demo-
Gratis in Congress upon any plan that can be
agreed upon. When the House meets Wednes-
day the discussion of the Carlisle bill will be
resumed and continued for the rest OF the
week. Further than that no definite pro-
gramme has been arranged. 1t is expected
that a Democratic caucus to consider the bill
and proposed amendments will be called this
week, and that something will be decided upon.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has just
shown that d man may have Presidential as
neutrality-suspicious. are all Cameron will
ever have-and yet not guard his tongue. That
Senator Cameron was pecuniarly interested IN
the Malone lot and that it was partly through
him that ex-senator Malone has for four years
been able to prevent the purchase of any other
lot as site for a new Government Printing
Office, has long been known in Washington.
But that did not prevent general surprise when
Senator Cameron made the fat-footed state
ment that the Senate would agree to the pur-
chase of the Malone lot, and that only. Not
very complimentary to the Democratic MAJOR
ity of the Senate, eh?
Secretary Gresham presented the new Aus
tro- Hungarian minister to the President Satur-
day afternoon. 1t having been reported that
the new minister was under instructions to de-
mand, on behalf of his government certain
tariff concessions with a notice that retaliation
upon American products would follow re-
fusal on the part of this government, 1t was
stated positively that his government had given
him no such Instructions, and that it had
taken no action whatever concerning the new
tariff. He added that he did not anticipate any
commercial trouble between his government
and the United States on account of the new
tariff.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, chairman of
the Senate Committee on Appropriations, takes
no stock in there being any serious attempt
made to defeat the clause in the urgency ap-
preparation bill appropriating money to meet
the expenses of collecting the income tax, not
withstanding reports which pretend to give the
details of combination organized to defeat
that appropriation in the Senate. Mr.. Cockrell
says he intends to get the bill before the Senate
as soon as possible, and that he anticipates no
trouble in getting it passed. Senator Quay is
said to be preparing an endless speech which
he proposes to make against the BILL and Sena-
tor Lodge is also credited with a desire to talk
against it. Senator Hill figures i'll all the ru-
mors about what is being done to try to defeat
this appropriation, but those who knew him
best do not believe he would defeat the appro-
priation, if he could, although he would gladly
vote to repeal the income tax. But voting to
repeal law and voting to withhold an appro-
priation necessary to enforce a law are two
very different things. Attorney General Olney
is confident that the attempt to have the in
come tax declared unconstitutional by the
re will fail