Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-01-04

oweverything else. The question of
the calling of an extra session OF
Congress, which was first consider
ed merely in nigh have to- be
light, has now nearly reached the
must-be stage. If something is
not done by this Congress to stop
the drain of gold from the Treas
ury, ,and there isn't one chance in a
thousand that anything will be done
it will not be a matter of choice
with Mr.. Cleveland. He will have
to call the republican Congress to-
gether in order to get something
done.
Very little hope is now enter
tanned by any democrat that the
Carlisle currency bill will be pass
ed by the House in its present
shape and not much that it will be
passed by the Senate. But the
ableSt financiers in Congress agree
in saying that if the currency bill
W ere to become a law tomorrow
it would do the Treasury more
harm than good. Even Secretary
Carlisle, who is willing to pose as
author of the bill, admits that it
would not help the Treasury for
sometime to come, and that he is
not altogether certain that it ever
would. Meanwhile the drain ON
the gold in the Treasury continues
and the receipts of the government
continue to be much less than its
expenditures. These facts have
aroused the republicans to the
necessity of formulating plan
for legislation at the extra session,
if one be called, They don't want
an extra session; would much pre-
fer having until next December to
think about legislation, but true
to the traditions of the party they
will be found ready to do their
duty whenever called upon.
1t can be stated on high authori
ty that the republicans in the Sen
ate have no idea of shielding the
democrats from any of the popular
disapprovals they have earned
since they controlled all branches
of the government. Several re,
publican Senators, may, when the
urgency appropriation bill geUs be
fore the Senate, seek to have the
appropriation for the collection ot
: the income tax struck out of that
bill, but they will not be support
: ed by any considerable number o
republicans. Nothing would please
' the democrats who have realized
2 what a mistake the income ta2
e was, chief of whom is Mr.. Cleve
l land, more than to have republi
0 can Senators defeat the appropria
e ton for the collection of that tax
That would enable the democratic
0 party to play its favorite and usu
: al double-fa role in anothe
campaign-in states where the in
$ come tax is popular it would claim
f to have imposed the tax and would
s charge the republicans with hav
d ing prevented its being collected
6 and in states where the tax wa.
n unpopular it would point out tn
r failure to appropriate money t.
h enforce the law as its own act
O These are some of the reasons VIII,
r republicans will aid in getting tina
n appropriation through, rather thai
n Join in putting Instructions in it!
# way.
II The troubles growing out of tn
L repeal of the reciprocity clause o
: the Mckinley tariff law have onl,
S Just begun, as the administrator
e is now finding out. France AM
n Austria have unofficially intimate'
> their intention to follow the exam
II pie of Spain and retaliate upon tn
e United States if some modification
S of the sugar schedule of the tari
e law cannot be secured. AS ther
/ isn't the slightest probability tina
T any modification can be gotte
t through Congress at this session
g the outlook for more retaliation i
d promising-entirely too promising
1t Senator Cameron, of Pa, is be
e ing harshly criticized for havinj
n said that no site should be pun
e :haSed for a new Governmen
i Printing Office. mil s. Cnnrres