The evening times., 1899-05-05
GENERAL POLITICAL
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Regarding an Extra SeSsiOn-The
belief is growing stronger that the, Fifty
sixth Congress will meet some little time
In advance Of the date fixed for the as
sembiing OF the regular session in Decem-
ber. Men close to the President. say that
it Is Mr.. McKinley's present intention to
call an extra sessieH p September or ear.
ly in October. Thae 4rs quite pumber Of
sessions that may lead to serious compli-
cations unless they are settled by Congress
very scon. One important point raised is
whether the emigration laws OF the
United States apply to Porto Rico and the
tniIppines. One high Official, 1t is un-
-derstood. holds that they do not; another
contends that they do II the former rul-
ing is sustained it will result in the practi-
cal notification Of the Chinese exclusion
act as 1t will be almost impossible to keep
the Chinese cut Of this country II they
are permitted to land freely in our out
lying possessions.
II the insurrection in the Philippines
should be terminated within the next few
weeks. as now seems likely. it will be nec-
essary. or important at least. to have some
definite scheme for the government Of
those islands perfected as speedily as pos
sible and this can only be done by the
Congress. The Schurman Commission will
probably be ready to submit report to the
President by July. 1t is said that its
preliminary report is already on its way
to the President. But Cf course. nothing
can be done toward the establishment of
stable government in the Philippines un-
til the rebellion is put down and stamped
out. The news Of peace in the Philippines
will be followed. it is believed. very short
ly by proclamation from the President
conyoking an extra session of the Fifty
sixth Congress. The friends o! Represen-
tative James S. Sherman are hoping for
an extra session as they are afraid that his
Speakership boom may peter out II it is
compelled to subsist until December.
Toledo Jones n Candidnte.-Tbe for
NAL announcement from Toledo Jones
that he will be a candidate before the
coming Republican State convention In
Ohio. has sent a cold shiyer down the
spinal columns Of the Administration
friends in Washington. They apparently
regard Toledo Jones as the greatest men,
ace to Mr.. McKinley's political future in
existence While Jones cannot be nomi-
mated in the convention without the open
and aggressive support Of the Foraker Re-
pub!icans his candidacy has introduced a
disturbing element in the Ohio Republican
publicans he can easily have himself
nominated for governor as an Independent
and II he made anything like as good a
run as he did for mayor of Toledo this
spring the regular Republican nominee
would be very bad third in the race.
The loss Of Ohio by the Republicans next
November would be very serious matter
TO the Mckinley Administration. McKin-
ley stock will be certain to fall off several
points.
Internal Revenue CounterfeitInE-
1T is fortunate that the gang of counter
feiters of Internal Revenue stamps have
been run to earth" said Treasury official
today. There is no telling how much
money the Government might be cheated
out of in the course of a year If the gang
had not been molested People as rule
do not examine Internal Revenue stamps
very closely. They do not pass from hand
to hand like greenbacks.
This Pennsylvania crowd was getting
ready to operate on a very extensive s-ale.
The Secret Service agents have seized over
eight tons of Internal Revenue paper found
in the. possession of the counterfeiters.
am informed that the paper is genuine and
that it evidently came from either one OF
the two paper mills that supply the Gov
ernment. II that is true. IL strikes me that
little further investigation would be In
order. 1t would be impossible for outside
parties to get hold of such large quantity
OF the paper without collusion with some
people on the inside Each sheet is num-
bered and has to be accounted for: il
sheet is found to be imperfect it is de-
stroyed but record is kept Of that fact.
SO. you see. the discovery of eight tons OF
the paper in private hands is quite re-
markable. presume that the Secret Serv-
ice people will not stop until they get at
the bottom of the whole matter"