The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-18
M KINLEY MUST.
He Will Be Forced to Call an
Extra Session
Whether He Desires to Do So
or Not.
MONEY MUST BE HAD
With Which to Conduct the
Government Business.
Appropriation Bills to BE Hung
Up BY the Senate.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 1s.-The- SEN
ate and the house are relying implicitly
upon the calling of an extra session by
President Mckinley. If by any possi-
bic chance events should so shape them
selves that the extra session should not
be called to protect the gold reserve or
to give additional revenue to the gov
eminent, Mckinley would still have to
call it.
By the hardness of the house and
senate in acting on appropriation bills
an emergency will confront the new
president Immediately upon his Undue
ton into office. Three or four of the
general appropriation bills are going to
be left pending in one or the other of
the bodies with the expiration ofthe
Fifty-fourth congress- March 4.
The fiscal year of the government
ends June 80. 1t is imperative that all
appropriation bills be passed by that
time. Congress appropriates money in
advance for the different branches of
the government. A failure to provide
for any particular branch-the army, the
navy, the diplomatic and consular
branch, etc--would result in embara S.
ing cOmDliDa tiOnS.
Up to date there are more than half
dozen of the important appropriation
measures which have not reached the
senate. At least three or four will not
reach there in time to pass the pres
ent congress.
1t will not therefore be left altogether
with Mckinley to say when the extra
session shall be called. If he and Mark
Hanna should decide that it would be a
good thing to postpone calling the ex-
ira session until September or October,
their wishes in this respect would have
to give way to the emergency of the
situation. All appropriation bills must
become laws before July or the wheels
of the government would cease to re-
volve.
1t is not altogether from lack of dill
gence on the part of either body that
the appropriation bills are in this con-
ditiOn. The formidable wing of the
Republican praty inimical to Mckinley
which includes the members of the
Senat orial combine and Speaker Reed
has a certain modicum of method in its
seeming haphazard way of doing bust
ness.
Il proposes to have things in shape
| to force the calling of an extra session
whether Mckinley wants it or not.
AS the ways and means committee
! proceeds in its work of drafting the
new tariff bill it become, more and
/ more apparent that Mark Hanna has
lost his grip on the situation. He can
not control the degree of protection
! Which the house proposes to give each
/ schedule; he cannot hold the reins over
! the senate.
| 1t would appear now that Mark Hanna
has been successful in forcing John
| Sherman to agree to go into the cabi-
net and in inducing Governor Bushnell
to compact to give him the senator
/ ship.
/ That will put Hanna in the senate in
the thick of the tariff debate.
Many of the sena tors who felt the
/ smart of Hannas rod in the recent
! campaign are anxiously waiting for
him He will be handled without gloves.
| At least half dozen of the best debat-
ers and ready fighters in the senate will
proceed to lock horns with the doughty
i Hanna on the first opportunity. His
advocacy of any particular schedule will
| draw a volley of criticism and of caustic
/ comment which will no doubt startle
| the new boss