The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-05
MONDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1898.
TEN PAGES.
TT IL still a question Is to whether
the Fifty-sixth congress will be

1T IL Still n question as 10 Wnetner
Inc Fffty-sixth will be
convened in extraordinary session
text March. President Mckinley. Ses-
rotary Gage and Mark Hanna are re-
ported to favor an extra session. while
Speaker Reed. Chairman Dingley Of the
ways and means and Chairman Can
non Of the appropriations committees
and many other congressman OF in
fiuence oppose the calling of an extra
session on the grounds that such a ses-
sion would be unnecessary. would be
expensive and would serve 10 affect
unfavorably the business interests OF
the country. The element of the re-
publican party which favors ''cur-
rency reform Is reported to be urging
the calling OF an extra session. but
leading congressman i'm sympathy with
the administration protest against any
attempts being made 10 reform the cur-
rency by retiring the greenbacks and
the substitution therefor of national
bank currency.
IL has been limited that an extra ses-
sion OF the senate is possible to pass
upon the treaty Of peace. One eastern
newspaper intimates that 'if the presi-
dent finds by counting noses that the
present senate is likely 10 reject the
treaty, he will withhold II from con-
s~ideration until he can submit II to the
next senate. with it's heavy republican
majority. Such an act on his part
would approach dangerously near
executive usurpation. but II might save
the policy Of colonial expansion from
defeat"
The president Is said TO be confident
that the treaty will be ratified with
reasonable promptness in spite OF the
great diversity OF opinion as to the flu
ture government and disposition OF the
Philippines. 1t IL expected that the
treaty will be laid before the senate
Just before or Immediately after the
holidays. As three of the American
commissioners who will sign the treaty
are members of the committee on for
sumed by the committee in considering
and reporting the treaty back to the
senate for ratification.
Senator Teller II quoted by the New
York Herald as saying that IL the treaty
provides merely for the REIMBURSEMENT
OF Spanish sovereignty in the Philip
pines. he believes IL will be ratified dur
ing the session that begins to-day. II
the commissioners go further n un-
dertake TO bind congress as to the gov
eminent or disposition OF the islands,
Senator Teller thinks there will be a
Ions debate Senator Chandler does not
believe that any senator will interpose
serious objection TO the treaty's ratifi-
cation, for he cannot imagine that the
president would presume to usurp the
powers OF congress in causing to be in
serted in the treaty specific provisions
as 20 the future government n dis
position Of the Philippines. Senator
Foraker declares that the main poin,
accomplished by the treaty in addition
to the restoration of peace IL that Spain
has been compelled 10 %relinquish sover'
eighty over the Philippines, a result fol
which even the anti-expansionist,
should be grateful. IL the treaty doe;
not bind the United States 10 the futur
control OF the archipelago. there viii
be no serious objection 10 its immediate
ratification.