Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-05-31
MAY ADJOURN IN JUNE.
Most Of Our Legislators Arc Ready
 to Go Homo.
The Populists. However, Show No Win- fngnoss to Quit Talking, aEi May Keep Congress in ses-
 sion All Summer.

There is considerable speculation in political circles concerning the date of the adjournment of congress. Every effort possible IS being made by the senate committee Oh appropriations to dispose of the remaining appropriation bills. The house of representatives has been ready to adjourn for nearly month. The members of the senate committee on appropriations are not only considering the pending bills dur ing the regular hours for daily work of that character, but they are holding night sessions for the purpose of hasten ing the bills to completion.
 Delays are constantly occurring in open sessions of the senate on account of the efforts of the Fopulists te secure the passage of resolutions concerning bond issues, and deliberate attempts in other directions to assail the admin istraton fer the financial policy which has been developed and pursued during the past three years.
 Senator Allison. of Iowa, chairman of the senate committee on nappeopriations, says: q believe that the senate will be ready to adjourn hy the 6th CT 10th of June, aud I hope that opposition will not be so determined ard ylrulent as to prevent adjournment at ttat time, be- cause ali of the business necessary to be transacted by the present congress will have been finished, and it would be needless expense to the people for con- gross to remain in session any longer"
 There is no doubt that the republican leaders are very anxious to adjourn and gro to their several homes; while the democratic leaders are offering no op- position to the policy outlined and pushed by the majority. Therefore it is safe to assume that adjournmentw will occur early in June unless the Populists in the senate, who have the privilege of unlimited debate and the capacity for unlimited talk, shall interpose to pre- vent adjournment Senator Allen, of Nebraska, the biggest populist of them all, says: q am as anxious to adjourn as any senator of any party; but if we remain in session until the 10th day of June 1 expect that we will remain in session until after the republican nom- nations are made at St. Louis about the 20th of June. The democrats and pop ulists will want to make some remarks concerning the republican ticket and platform and will be disposed toremain here principally for that purpose.
 In that event l believe that the re- publican leaders will want to keep com Gress in session until the Chicago con vention is held in July, in order to make some official remarks concerning the democratic ticket and platform. Con- sequently, although I am ready to ad- journ and shall offer 10 opposition. expect congress to remain in session until the middle of July and possibly the 1st of August"
 The statesmen who are figuring and speculatfng concerning q date for ad- jou1nment would do well to communi- cate, directly or indirectly, with Pres ident Cleveland before they take final action in this important matter. Ex- Speaker Crisp to-day said to some of his colleagues upon the floor of the house that the president still believes that both parties in congress should assume respective responsibility and take re- medial action in the matter of the pub lie finances. The present congress met last December for the purpose of doing nothing, and has accomplished it's ob- ject. When the congress was about to adjourn over the Christmas holidays President Cleveland, in a ringing mes sage, called attention to the insolvent condition of the treasury and requested remedial financial legislation. Instead of periodically responding to the app peal of the executive, the house of repre- sentatiyes passed the DingIey tariff bill and the bond bill; neither one of which was intended or expected to become a law. If congress should now adjourn without having taken any action what ever for the relief of the treasury, it is more than probable that President Cleveland would issue a proclamation calling congress in extra session for the purpose of giving legislative and practical relief to the treasury. The stumbling block has been the prcsiden- tiai ambition of Tom Reed, who de- clined to permit the house of repre- sentatiyes. to do business. But the senate has also been a stumbling block, in that tbe leaders of that body on the republican side have declined to per init any legislation beyond the passage of appropriation bills. The republic an leaders are delaying thus, with the idea that they can escape censure from the people for their dcrelictions. The people, however, fully understand the feebleness of the subteFfuges which have been put forth in the sophistic ut teranees of men in high places who have been recalcitrant, and have de- Hberately refused to relieve the fnan- cial embarrassment of the government because this is q presidential year.
 THURMAN.