The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-15
WORK BEFORE CONGRESS
SUBJECTS FOE THE ExTRAORDIN-
ARY SESSION TO CONSIDER.

Will Convene at Noon To-day-Tarifr and
Arbitration Treaty Foremost Topics
Latter VIII Pass the Senate But VIII be
Radically Amended-Senator Turpie
VIII Persist in His Amendments.
Washington, March 14-To- morrow
at noon both houses of the Fifty-fifth
congress will convene in extraordinary
session. 1t is not likely that the senate
will remain In continuous session dur
ing the week unless the president is
been in making nominations. There Is
nothing before the senate, and there is
nothing to require close application to
business until the committee on foreign
relations reports the arbitration treaty
with Great Britain
A special meeting of the committee
subject has been called for tomorrow.
When Senator Davis motion to refer
the treaty back to the committee was
discussed during the recent special ses-
sion there was a general expression of
opinion that the designation of judges
of the United States supreme court as
members of the tribunal should be
eliminated. 1t was thought that as
jurists sitting in the court Of last re-
sort in this country, the the judges
might be called upon to pass upon
questions similar to those that might
arise under this treaty, and should this
prove to be the case the situation
would be more than embarrassing, as
the opinion of the judge as the member
| of our own court might act as an es-
toppel in the exercise of his rights as
an independent member of the tribu-
nal
| 1t Is almost certainty that the
| treaty will be amended along the lines
| of the Turpie amendment of the last
session. so as to provide that every case
or question intended to be submitted to
| arbitration under this general treaty
shall first be submitted to the senate
| for its ratification.
| 1t seems to be a general impression
| that when the senator appointed by
| the governor of Florida to succeed Mr..
| Call arrives, he will be seated. The
| legislature Of Florida does not convene
| until April and six years ago the
senate seated Mr.. Pasco ad interim un-
| precisely similar conditions.
| The appointee from Oregon, in place
of Mr. Mitchell has not yet arrived.
! His claim to a seat is regarded as res
| adjudicata by the decision of the sem
| ate in the Montana, Washington and
/ Wyoming cases in the last congress.
His credentials will undoubtedly be
sent to the committee on privileges and
| elections, as were those Of Major Weed,
/ the appointee of Governor Bradley Of
| Kentucky
| Meanwhile the republicans in the
matter of the organization of commit
tees are playing a waiting game. They
will make no effort to do more than fill
| their own vacancies until the legisla-
lures of those two states elect. 1t is
understood an agreement has about
been reached with the democrats to this
end The proposition to consolidate all
the elements opposed to the republicans
1 for the purpose of capturing the or
ganization of the committees appears
| to have fallen through on account Of
/ the inability of these elements to come
together.
The republican majority Of the house
having adopted inlcaucus with unaninl-
ity the old ticket, the organization Of
that body viii take but little time, and
there Is no reason outside Of his own
possible desire for a days longer time
why the president should not send in
his message to congress on the opening
day, which is rather an unusual hap
pening. All the house has to do after
organization is to draw for seats and
this can easily be done while the joint
committee is on its way to the white
house to notify the president that the
| Fifty-fifh congress is ready for busi-
ness.