Arizona republican., 1899-01-06
NO DEBATING SCHOOL
Will be Conducted by inc Ad-
 miniSfFafiOn This Year.
The Business Not Transacted in Inc Short Session Will be Allowed 10 Go Over 10 the Next.

newspapers 10 arouse an agitation ln
 favor cf an extra session of congress
 for monetary legislation have not ez- capsd observation here, Ter is their or
 igin unknown. On the contrary, tEe perfunctory reply, Yours received and.
 contents nOted," can be made to the
 various literary productions on this
 subject coming ,as it is known thly
 all do, from one sOurce; and it can also
 be caid that the ungenerous and unfair
 tenor of the publications has r'ct dis
 tU bed the serenity Of the presidents
 mind nor moved him in the slightest
 from the path which he is travelling to-
 ward the achievem5nt cf all that he is
 pledged to do on this CT any cther sub
 ject. either by the St. Louis platform
 CT his own individual utterances.
 Each, in it's turn, however, must take
 it's separate place in the crder Cf ac-
 complishment, as determined by the course of evSnts and the conditions af-
 fecting it; and so with monetary leg
 islation. essential as it concernedly IS,
 it's real friends, locking fer results and
 not another mere agitation, stand with
 President Mckinley awaiting an op
 po~tunity that insures satisfactory leg
 islation, rather than force the issue at Q time when only it's eaemies are agreed in opinion as tc what should be done.
 The administration, it can Ee author
 itative1y stated, is E,c5 going to open an all-summer debating school cn the question or the sake of determining how near the advocates of financial leg islation can cCma to an az -eemeat re
 garding the proper enactments to- make, particularly in v-ew cf the fact that cnce in ses5icn congress can roam at it's own sweet will on all sub jects and thus open up many questions which for obvious reasons are better off without endless CcngT Tessioral agi- taticn.
 President Cleveland tried such an ez- pertinent after he assumed office in 1893, and brought a dsmoeratic con- gress togethcr to remove the one men, ace to national prosperity, as he call ed the Sherman silver law. IL tcok congress nearly three months to do evan that little, and intensif1ed the strain o1 the country and the anxie y Of the people. We all remember that Ees- sion.
 The next summer we had a congress siona1 session fer revenue leg1slat on, which the late Sens ter Bric5 called "a wild orgie of the trusts" and whose acts Cleveland himsslf denounced.
 The next congress Of cCurss. is not to be of that type, but it dOuhtless has it's currents and cTOss-currents, p9rtlc- ularly in the senate, where much new material will be found, and no sincere friend of monetary reform. no enc who wants complete and satisfactory leg1s- lation. has yet advised the admiaistra- ton to assemble these two bodies of new IegisIators together in extra ses- sion before the divisions Of cp.nion among them are known and tested, and if possible removed. It 1s 10 be rem9m- bered also, that among TO other class Of men are there such radically diver gent views as tcI what should be done as exist among the foremost advocat9s of sound money legislation.
 Some ask fer little and believe It wise net to seek further than a gold declaration; CitIheTs want little more legislation. while others insist upon a revision of the entire financial and currency legislation and commitments of the nation since 1861, and will De satisfied with nothing else. If these eentlemen. divided among themselves as they are, would pause to consider the kind cf agitation the urging of their separate views upon congress would precipitate-tf they would re3- lize than an alert and wind ctiVe oppC-I sition will seek full advantage of tne1c chance to unsett1e the public mind and fore. a. rehearing on the usbject-pcr- haos they would ;ake moe rat1Cn2l view of the course which the presl1eAt is pursuing with calm but hXed pur- pose, a course that insures legislation not by narrow partissn maJcr1tl9s, put enacted by such an assonting Yote as mako it an undesirable subject Tor in fIJtII Il.
 When President Mckinley assumed office it seemed certain tc all, and to no one mora than him, that sound mcney lesislatfon would be the gteat problem and achievement Of his ad- He planned to make 1t sc. and his advisers jOincd heartily with him. There is today the same firm determination and earnest pur- pose to enact into law every word cf promise made by the administrator; but it will be conceded by reasonable men that other serious questions have ccrne to the front in the last twelve : months dems nding quit as del cate md difficult handling.
 History has been made SD rapidly by ] snis administration, ard sc many un- 1 rc-sesn events hays shGpSd is course, | hat it is not entirely safe even now to ' accept any Cne phase of it thus GeveI- ! ,p-d ss the lasting con-picucus feature. f The destruction of the Maine precipi- f -ated a war which seemed inevitable .nyhow, but which the president hc2ed S md endeavorsd t3 avctd; Dawey's viz g ory at Manila raised the nations flag [ Il corner Of the word toward which C he widest exp3nS Gnist had not dream V d of roaming; Hawaii Cuba and Porto e Rico are today live problems for Amer can s.atesmanship. Yet when Pres dent Mckinley assumed office no one if them, nor all tcgethe-, had the su ,reme importance or interest tc the C ,eopla as the question Of having d nough money ccming in:o he naticna' f, reasury to pay the national expsns1s S T having the world at large know and W elieve that the nations premise to pay Il i q