Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-12
EXTRA SESSION PROSPECTS
President May Call Congress in the
Early Fall.
Important Questions That Require Prompt Set
tlement- Currency Reform Measure
In Prospect.


growing belief among members
of Congress that the President
will call Congress to meet in ex-
traordinary session this fall, prob.
ably early in October.
The questions which will come
before the next Congress for set
Element, including as they do
everything growing out of our
possessions acquired as a result of
the war with Spain and the gen.
eral legislation including that re-
latlng to currency reform, the Mic
aragua Canal, merchant marine,
ETC., are OF such great importance
that the President is inclined to
regard it as advisable that Con-
gress should meet earlier than the
regular session in December il
order to get the work under way.
The retirement of Speaker Reed
will naturally entail considerable
delay 10 the appointment of COM
mittees in the House, as it is
customary to allow new speaker
four or FIVE weeks to make up his
committees and this furnishes an
additional reason why Congress
should be convened before De
cember.
OF the several Senators and
members of Congress who are 60
ing abroad this sum mer, the Presi-
dent has particularly inquired as
to the length Of their stay and
has limited that it WAS advisable
that they should be back 10 the
early fall as the necessity for an
extra session might arise.
With others, it is said, he has
discussed the subject, and more
over it was upon the Presidents
direct suggestion that the caucus
committee appointed by the House
Republicans to formulate cur
rency reform measure met when j.
did. There had been talk OF
postponing the meeting until
Fall, but the President suggested
that it would be we'll to formulate
plan as early as possible and
this statement was made to the
members when they met at Allan.
tic City as having come direct
from the President, together with
the further statement that the Pre-
sident might call Congress in ex-
traordinary session in the fall for
the purpose, among other things
of passing currency reform mea
sure.
Representative Dslzell, OF Penn
sylvania and Representative Cur
tis OF Kansas, both of whom are
members of the caucus committee,
saw the President today. When
the former left the White House,
he said he had no direct informa
ton on the subject of an extra
session, but that he had all along
regarded an extra session as more
than probable.
At the White House no confirm
alton can be obtained of the state
ment that the President at present
contemplated calling Congress to-
gether in the fall.
1t is said that to visitors he may
have made some observation re-
garding the possibility of such a
course, and that these may have
been given too much weight by
his visitors. The members of the
Republican caucus committee who
have returned from Atlantic City
are scattering for their homes.
General Henderson, the chair
man, will remain here to confer
with Senator Aldrich, chairman OF
the Senate finance committee, on
his return from Europe shortly,
and will arrange with him after
going over the details OF the cur
rency reform plan recon m ended
by his committee for joint meet
ing of the two committees later.
This joint session will probably