Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-07
An Extra sessiou Sure,

1t having been settled that there can
be no legislation at this session Of Con-
gress looking to more revenue, it can
now be assumed that there will be ar
extra session of Congress. An extra
session is always to be avoided to the
utmost. No President will call SEES
sion except as q last resort. But 1t is
agreed on all hands now that Congress
will be called to meet the emergency
for which the present Congress has
failed to make any provision.
The responsibility for this situation
rests directly and obviously upon the
silver men and the Bryan Democratic
Senators. They have the power to de-
feat revenue legislation, being in the
majority in the Senate, and when the
Dingley emergency bill came before the
Senate they fatty announced that they
would not permit it to pass. That an
nouncement was practically equivalent
sion. In other words, the silver men
and the Democrats had the power to
avoid an extra session by simply join
ing the Republicans In passing reve-
nue. measure. Or If the measure which
the Republicans offered did not suit
them they might have brought forward
a revenue measure Of their own as a
substitute, and thus have put upon the
Republicans, If they had refused to per-
NIT it to pass, the responsibility for an
extra session. The silver men and
Democrats did nothing of the kind.
They summarily forced an extra ses-
sion.
1t behooves the Republicans to meet
this emergency wisely and with scru-
pulous circumspection. In the first
place, the business Of the extra SEES
sion ought to be strictly confined to
the passage of revenue act-that Is
to say, to tariff act. If the session
be open to general legislation, it will
bring the party and the administration
to a sea Of troubles. Other business
will Interfere with the speedy enact
ment of revenue legislation. Speed Is
necessary. There is an immense deficit
Of revenue. We want more revenue at
the earliest possible moment to cut Off,
If possible, further bond sales. The
tariff should not be radical measure,
but distinctly conservative and mod
crate. If Congress will pass such
bill, and pass it promptly, shutting out
other business, an extra session may
not turn out SO bad after all.-Sioux
City Journal.
Notes.
Mr.. Bryan has come to the conclusion
that he made mistake in lecturing.
His manager has probably some to the
same state of mind.
Many women without a good home
will see retributive justice In the fact
that Mrs. Lease has lost hers. "A woman
who doesn't know enough to stay in a
good home when she has one ought to
lose It.
A good many persons are wasting
good time building cabinets for Mr.. Nc
Kinley, seemingly unaware of the fact
that the gentleman himself is as good
a political joiner and carpenter as there
is In the business.
"You will never see dollar wheat I'M
til we, have free silver" shouted the
Bryan orators all over the West during
the entire summer. And yet we have
already seen the dollar wheat, and
free, unlimited silver, 16 to l." is oct
Of sight. a vagary and a dream.
There Is n plan for establishing free
silver papers all over the country. The
difficulty Is that 1t takes money to run
newspapers. II may Also be remarked,
incidentally, that 1t sometimes takes
brains, although papers have been