Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-11
A General Impression That One
Will Be- Held.
PARTY LEADERS Do NOT THINK SO
They Have Received No lntimation
From the President.
No AUTHORITY TO SPEAK

While there has been no further declara-
ton or intimation coming from the admin
istration than that circulated two or three
weeks ago, the conviction that there is to
be an extra session Of the Fifty-fourth
Congress has become fixed in the minds OF
nearly every one in Congress. So general
is this conviction that the subject Of dis
cussion is the question of how early the
session will be called, rather than OF
whether there will be such an extra ses-
sion. This. Of course, is based upon the
assumption that there will be no financial
legislation, and this assumption Is thor
oughly warranted by canvass OF the
opponents to the Carlisle bill, based upon
the vote by which that measure was
knocked out OF the House. careful can
vass shows that the vote on the rule was
the very strongest which the friends of the
had been permitted to come to vote
about eighty democrats would have voted
against it, or in the neighborhood of forty
more than voted against the rule.
Not Authorized to Speak.
Emphatic denial is made by all the dem
ocratic members of the House committee
on IuIes Of the reports which have been in
circulation that President Cleveland had
authorized one of them to make it known
that an extra session Of Congress would be
called If currency legislation was not ef-
fected by the present Congress. There is
much general talk of an extra session and
the statement that the President has au-
thorizcd the announcement probably arises
from this.
Speaker Crisp, the senior member of the
rules committee, said: There Is no truth
in the report that the President has an-
thorized such a statement nor has he given
any intima ton so far as l know that an
extra session would be called. l have not
seen him Of late except at the reception to
the diplomatic corps last night when there
was, of course. no reference to public busi-
ness
Mr. Catchings another members Of the
rules committee said: 1.-The report is un-
true, so far as 1 am concerned. l have no:
seen the President and have heard nothing
from him on the subject of extra session. "
Representative Cultivate, the remaining
democratic member of the rules committee
said: Il have not seen the President eX.
cept in the crowd at the reception last
night, and have not the remotest intima-
| ton from him or any one else that an
extra session will be called"
The Rumor Discreditcd.
| Chairman Springer Of the banking com
| mittee says: THE President has not di-
rectly or indirectly stated or intimated
that he was even considering the question
of an extra session. The report is based
entirely on current gossip"
Mr.. Hall of Missouri who has conferred
with the President Of late, says he does
| not believe the report.
Mr.. Straus of New York says: Il do not
believe it is true that the President has
made such statement. He does not make
advance announcements of his purposes. !
think there will be an extra session, but 1t
is my individual view, and such views
among members have started the report"
1t is impossible to secure any confirma-
ton in the Senate of the report that the
President has decided upon call for an
extra session in case of failure to pass a
currency bill. Among a large number OF
democratic Senators spoken to not one
was found who could give any confirmation
whatever to the report.
Senator Villas, who is probably closer to
the President than any other Senator, said
that he not only could not confirm the eX-
ira session story, but that he believed 1t
to be without authority. Senator Hill also
said he had heard nothing to confirm the
report, as did various other democratic
leaders.