Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-24
AN EXTRA SESSION.
To BE CALLED WITHIN TWENTY
DAYS AFTER MARCH 4.
MAJOR WKINLEYS OPINION.
EXPECTS 40 REvENUE LEGISLATION
THIS WINTER.
Thinks II the Best Policy for the Re-
urbIfran. TO settle the Tariff
Question n= soon Hs Pos
sIbIc After They Are
in Power.

Vow York. nov ga.-The Mail and TX
pres to-day says: There is going 70 be
an extra session of congress called within
twenty days after the Inauguration Of
Pres.dent-eIect Mckinley. This informa-
ton comes fro.u Canton today In most
positive and direct way, and its reliability
cannot be questioned. II IS the opinion
Of the prc-lGert-alert that no revenue leg
fgiafI0n can b. accomplished this winter,
ard though newspaper dispatches disagree
regarding his attitude toward the present
agitation for the DingIey bill, there is
substantial authority for the statement
that Major Mckinley Is agerse 70 raising
expectations az 10 its enactment which, In
his Judgment. cannot be realized. He fears
that the business community would be-
come demoralized should the bill be passed
IN the house again only % be laid aside by
the senate. and he does not share Senator
Sherman's opinion that the measure can
pass the senate before the reorganization
OF that body on March T."
Canton. O., Nov Z3.-The president-elect
and his intimate friends are unable to see
any reason why the Dingley tariff bill
should be pressed for passage this winter.
They regard that measure In the light in
which It was distinctly placed By its author
when he offered # to the house-as tenn
porary affair, made TO fit an emergency
and designed 20 tide over brief period in
which The Republican party had control
Of the house alone, while the senate and
executive were under the domination Of the
opposition. That condition Will not exist
after March 4, and therefore no good rea-
son can be found. in the opinion OF the
president-eIect, why the Republican party
should not proceed at once TO the per-
foru1ance Of its duty In giving the country
a general revision Of the tariff schedules
II the Dingley bill were put upon the stat
utes a general revision would stIIl be neces-
Esry IN the immediate future, and it is
deemed bad policy to proIong agitation Of
the tariff. Major Mckinley has pointed out
20 some Of his callers that 81 the tarih re-
vision be left TO the regular session Of the
new congress the new law could not 20 into
effect before the autumn Of 1905, or Just
on the eve OF She congressional election
The president-elect had one experience of
that sort with a tariff law which the
country had not had time to understand
and he does not care to have another
Washington, Nov. 23.-Members Of the
senate are coming to Washington each
day. and from interviews with each of the
arrivals It is apparent that the senators
expect little gaye routine legislation, in
cluding the passage Of the annual apDro-
priation bills, al the short session Of con-
Fress. Senator'S COckrell, of Missouri, and
Hawiey. Of Connecticut, both gave ex-
preston 10 this opinion to-day. and both
likewise agreed in the opinion that moth
Ing need be expected at the coming ses-
sion IN the way of helping along an inter
nauonai. hEnetalIha Z conference. Senator
Hawley did not believe the DingIey bin
would be enacted into law. adding:
Tho DiGgley bill Is confessediy a mere
rnakeshift. with all the defects incident to
horizontal Increase or decrease Of duties
II II should be passed as II is, It seems
10 me II would be the duty of the presi-
dent 20 assemble congress as soon as nos
slhle after the 9Th OF March for a diIirent
consideration and revision of the whole
tariff in a considerate and conservative
spirit, to the end that bill might be
passed that would stand the test of years.
subject. Of course. to an occasional cor
rection where new Inventions and changes
IN trade may demand it. II is to be re-
membered. also. that the Dingley- bill ex-
pires by its own limitation in August. 1905,
and it is impossible to evade the question.
Therefore, the more speedily action is
taken the better"