The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-07


Inauguration. issued call for an extra
and stated his rcisons rs follows
Whereas. sundry important and wcishty
matters. principally growing out OF the
condition OF tho revenue and finances OF
tho country, appeal to me to call for the
consideration OF congress at an earlier day
than Its next annual session, and thus form
an extraordinary OCCASION such as renders
necessary. In my Judgment. the conyen-
tlon OF the two houses as soon as may be
practicable. do. therefore. by this proc
| ANIMATION, convene the two houses of cou-
! grcss To moot In the capitol Mt tho city os
washington on the last Monday. being
tho Sist day OF May. ncxt"
Just ono month after his Inauguration,
ON April I. lSsl, President Harrison died,
ana on April 0 Vice President John tyler
was sworn In by william Crunch, then
ch'ei Justice OF tho circuit court Of tho Dis.
trict OF Columbia. ltc CONQUERED In the call
Tor the extra session, eaying that he did
not ,eei mat II would be becoming In Dlm
| 10 disturb what had been ordered by his
predecessor At this session OF tho lsScn-
N-scventh congress bin was presented by
lhomas Ewing, secretary OF tho treasury,
Tor providing for the incorporation of the
, Fiscal bank OF the United stntes," The
! wv W IN tnlN Dill from
| Those which had created the former banks
or the United States Wore; First. 1t pro-
! posed bank 10 be Incorporated In the
District OF Columbia, second It wag 10
nave power TO establish branches only
with the consent of the States. Many pro-
visions were made 10 guard asalnut the
abuses which were knCwn or allugcj TO
nave orent Into former banks. The capital
stock was to DO $50 900 600 The bill was
altered materially from the original pre-
scented by MIR Ewing aud passed as com-
promise measure II being believed that tie
president would accept II. The bill went
10 the president OH tho 9th Of Ausunt, 1911.
ana he held 1t until the 10th, and returned
| u with veto message, Ewing four prinei-
pal objections, three OF which applied
equally To the original bill OF Mr.. Ewing,
| Tho acts passed at this session were: No.
peoiing She Huhtreauury law. bankruptcy
| law, authorizing loan OF ST. 900 600 and
several minor acts. In all Twenty-Five acts
and live rcsolutious
From the adjournment OF the Twenty
seventh congress extra ses.lou fourteen
years passed. covering The administrations
OF James Il. Polk and Zachary Taylor
Then President franklin Pierce issucd
proclamation oonvoumg the Thirty fourth
congress- ON August ~. 1876. The necessity
for this session arose from the fact that
congress had adjourned without having
mado any appropriation for the malnten-
aota including the appropriation bill four
Joint resolutions and tweutv-seyou private
bills were passed at this session, which
adjourned on August 20. having been In
session nine DAYS.
The next special session NJ congress to
be called grew out OF tho Necessities OF the
civil wnr and convened ON July 4. 1851.
pursuant TO proclamation issued by
President Abraham Lincoln IlIs reasons
for calling the session arc stated IN the
proclamation. and read as follows:
Whereas. Tho laws OF tho United States
have been for some time mast and now are
opposed and the execution thereof OBJ
structed In tho states Of South Carolina.
Georgia, Alabama. Florida. Mississippi. |
Louisiana aud Texas by combinations too |
powerful TO be suppressed by the ordinary
COURSE Of Judicial proceedings or by the
powers vested lii tho marshals by
law.
New. therefore. /. Abraham Lincoln.
president OF the United States. In virtue OF
the power In mo vested by tho constitution
aud laws. have thought TT TO call forth, |
aud do hereby call forth the militia of the |
several states of the Union 10 the nggrc- |
cato number of 10000, in order to suppress
said combinations md TO cause the laws
to be duly executed"
The proclamation appealed TO loyal cltl- |
2cns. commanded the dlspersing OF the
combinations and called congress to con-
ald0r and determine such menslircs aB tho
public safety and interest might demand,
st tho. session which followed Galusha A.
Grow of ppnnsyhana was HpeHkor OF The
house, and thrty-Blx public acts. the mont
important Of them relating to the better
organization OF the land aud naval forces
and the suppression ot the rebellion. were
passed, Five Joint resolutions and seven
private acts were also PASSED The act 10
create tho metropuliiun pOloo force OF the
District OF Columbia and a coniiscatlon act
were put through during tho fifteen dava
Of tho session. which adjourned ON July
~. 1861.
The extra session Of the Tor,le,h con-
grcss convened on March 4. In accordance
with nm act OF tho Thlriy-ninth congress-
Andrew johnson was Dresldcnt nj the
time and SCHUYLER Colfax was speaker OF
the house. Congress met on March 4.
1867 was in session twonty-six days. and
adjourned on March 80 10 meet July g. F,
when n session OF seventeen days was
held, udjourning again on july 20 10 meet
November "A. finally adiourning sine die
IN December 2. Thirty -iour pubic acts
and thirty one Joint resolutions were the ,
sessions, as they ares sometimes called. The
most important was supplementary TO the
act
During President Grants first torn tho
Firty first congress met Ia spacial Sos
sion ON March 4. 1853, passing thirty pub
lie acts aud twenty resolutions and adj
on April 10. 1869 Tho extra
SESSIONS OF tho FOrtioh and Forty-firsL |
congresses were made necessary by condi-
ions which grow out OF the ciyl war. al
was also tho extra session OF the Forty
second congress. from March 4. 1871. to
April 90 1871.
President Rutherford Is. Hayes. on May
\. 1877. called an extra session OF tho
Forty-fifth congress TO meet on October
To- 1877. because the previous congress had
,dlourned without passing the army ap-
,ropriation bill, The session lasted until I
december 3. 1871 and many bills were
,assed In addition TO tho appropriation bill.
Tho Forty -slxth congress was called In
'1tra session on March is. 1879. by Presi-
lent HAYES. ON account Of a failure to 1