Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-13
Expected to Hang in the Bal
ance for Some Time.
At Special Session Congress Can De-
bate Il to He irt's Content.
The Secret Sessions and How the Doinas Arc
Made Public.

As write the news from the capitol is
that the treaty will not be ratified or re
jected during this congress 1t will have
to 60 over to the special session, which II
to meet about the middle of next month.
Senators complain that they have no time
for such an important and complicated
matter at this juncture. 1t is too serious
a subject to be dealt with hastily. They
and carefully. From this day forward ali
the time of the senate will be needed fol
the regular appropriation bills.
The Special Session.
After March the senate will be in SEES
sion all the time, with nothing, or prac-
tically nothing, to do. twill be called to
meet March s in special session by Presi.
dent Cleveland, according to the usual
custom, for the purpose of considering the
nominations to be made by his successor.
About the middle of the month both the
house and senate will meet under cal,
from President Mckinley. The house will
at once go to work upon the new tariff
bill, or at least as soon as that measure is
reported from the ways and means COM
mittee. But the senate will have nothing
to occupy its time. 1t cannod originate
revenue legislation. There will be no ap
preparations to make. The Republican
policy will be not to undertake general
legislation at the special session, but tc
frown upon all such matters and keep them
In the background. Then the senate, say
the leaders of that body, can take up the
arbitration treaty and discuss it to its
hearts content. There are several amend
ments already pending
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How Secrets Are Divulged.
There is, of course, no secret as to how
the information concerning the secret de.
bates finds its way to the newspapers The
senators themselves are responsible for the
leaks. Sometimes they do not know they
are being pumped. Others consciously anc
deliberately give their newspaper friends
information. lean remember one occasion
on which three senator's were primetl to re
port secret, or so called secret, debate in
the executive session. They sat with pen
Gil and paper before them and made full,
notes of what was said and done and afte,
the session was over turned their notes
over to their newspaper friends. As q
rule, however. correspondents ticpend unor
the memory of senator's. Visits to a few
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