The evening times., 1896-11-16
WASHINGTON VERY W|L[|NG
Extra Session Always ElOngateS the
Business Season.
IT MAY BECOME NECESSARY
Dingley Bill, According toTreasury
Experts, VIII Not r-ng OEe fburth
of the Additional Revenue Needed
to Meet Expenses-Beer, Tea and
Coffee Taxes Not Popular.

Several of those in authority in Washing
ton have said quite positively within ten
days that there will be no extra session Of
Congress next March.
There are others who viii assert beyond
question that the Prcsidentelect will be
Iornally notified of his election, ana 60 INTO
details as to how the thing Will be done.
But when Senator George +. EdInunds,
VINO has had More or less TO do withlcgisii-
ton in this country, and VINO was parlcu-
Larry Interested in the present law for can
vassing the electoral vote, was asked now
IL was proposed that the President-clcct
Should Tina out about his election he re-
piled:
by reading the newspapers"
That is the way to lind out about the
extra session.
There may be one. after all in fact, ii is
quite probable there will be This is nuts
10 thousands OF Washington people. II is
like money picked up in The road. ltmcans
more houses rented for longer time more
goods sold more carriages used, more hotel
bills paid more cash spread abroad on the
city right and lett. with greater iibcrality.
A nd while the eWashingtonian has practically
no influence in bringing about the result,
there is TO law against r"JoiCing at II.
The CHEZ fact Indicating that there will
lie no Session. is the opposition Of Senator
Sherman and TWO or three of the older
heads, who want 10 amend the Dlngley
Till and pass it, or get something entirely
new and better. Senator Sherman's OBJ
lection To an extra session is that such
sessions have always been unpopular, and
have ended i'll discrcdit to the administra'
tionin which they were called.
1t has even happened that the party re-
sponSihlC Tor an extra session has been
defeated by the people On account OF lesis-
lation enacted in It.
IMPOSSIBLE PLANS.
on the other hand, revenue bill must be
passed To meet the expenses of the gov
vernment. II has been suggested u at
President Mckinley refuse 10 allow tile
pa ymcnt of money on appropriations al
ready made unless money is furnished
sJGIvIsu. to meet the demand nat viii
hardly be popular.
Another suggestion is that he refuse to
divide out the patronage till "a measure
Is enacted relieving his needs. IL Is pointed
out that this means was employed effect
lively by President Cleveland In getting the
purchasing clause of the Sherman law re
peaied. Eut there are grave objections to
this. One iS that 1T may occasion qnarrcls
that would seriously embarrass the admin
istration. The beginning of President
CIeyeldnd's troubles WIS IN this very thing
President Mckinley is having difficulties
enough making up Cabinet without he
ing forced To use his patronage as a weapon
10 bludEeon Congressman into passing a law
SO plainly needed. The difficulty ahout
cnac;ing a bill THAT viii raise the money
needed is not the unwillingness Of Congress,
hut the uncertainty of re suits and birurss Of
the hole TO bc filled.
Inc expenses OF the government for the
current fis cal year have already run
S3s ,UOO,bOU ahead Of receipts. and there
seems no indication OF a reversal of con
Iii -. nt. hnf lnft
for the year will be between SEQ, 900, 900
and S.5 100000. To supply this VIII re-
qure more than the Dinglcy bill. That
measure, while il can be easily taken up
and passed, is recognized by all as make
shifI-a bill put together in such shape as to
meet the views Of Democratic Senate, or
force them into a Political CoTncr, and to
he likely TO receive the signature OF Presi-
dent Cleveland, or make him sorry that
he didn't sign it, But worse than that.
il will not raise half the money required If
the Treasury experts have figured Alright.
They claim that il will So affect imports
that il cannot he depended upon to add
more than S12 ,CG0,CUU to the customs re-
ceip's This would leave much to te met
PROTECTIVE TARIFF WANTED.
Propositions have been made TO supple
ment this by an added 81 a barrel Oh beer.
This would give $50, 900 at the pres
were reduced 10y anincrease Of price to the
consumer, it would give $50 900, ZOO or
S:5,poo COG. 1nen another sum, IL Is pro-
posed shall he secured from a tax on tea
and coffee. 1t is calculated that 100000
OOO could he got from the two As these
are all strictly Democratic taxes it is sup
posed Il hat Democrats would not oppose and
that President Cleveland would sign the
bills.
nUu the brewers would Fl ght the beer tax
and are now laughing at the suggestion
that il could be passed, while the tea and
coffee tax would probably be fully as un-
popular as an extra session.
Representative Bingham uf Pennsylvania
said yesterday there is no use passing the
Dingley hill now, when it is possible To
have a thoroughly Republican measure,
and such must be passed anyhow within a
short time.
1t would not do he said, ''to put off
the tariff till the regular session of the
Fifty-fifth Congress. That would put the
new tariff into effect just as the next Con-
gressional elections came on and it would
not have time to show its beneficial re-
suits. That was what hurt the Mckinley
tariff. The people did not have time before
the election to see how IL would work If
we pass bill next spring it will have a
year before the elections to show its useful
ness
When as ked asto the dema nd ofth grange
for protection for farmers he said:
Free wool and free lumber are purely
Democratic. A Republican tariff will give
protection to all interests fairly
Ma ior Mckinley is known to favor pro-
tective tariff, as opposed To a so-called
revenue tariff, even if an extra session is