Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-04
MAY CALL EXTRA SESSION
such the Growing ueiicf In washing.
ton Important Question. Rebuff.
Ing settlement.

Washington, May t-Thorc II a
growing belief among members Of Con-
grcrs that tho President win call Con-
grcan TO meet In extraordinary session
this fall. probably early Ia october.
The questions which viii come before
the next Congress for settlement In
GLIDING aa they do everything growing
out ~ our possessions acquired NJ
result OF the war with spain and the
general legislation Including that rclat.
Ing to currency reform. the Nicaragua
Canal. merchant marine. oio, are "
such great Importance that the Prcui-
dent Ia inclined to regard Il az ndvis-
able that Congress should meet earlier
than the regular session IN December
Ia order To get the work under way.
Tho rrtiem.nt Of spcAssp ztosd viii
naturally entail considcrnBS delay In
the appointment Of committees In the
House an II II customary 10 allow
now Speaker four or ave weeks 10 make
up his committees and this furnishes
an additional reason why Congress
should be convened before December.
or the several Henatofs and members
Of Congress who AFRO going abroad this
summer. tho President has particularly
Inquired aa 10 the length ~ their stay.
and has limited that Il was advisable
that they should DO back In the early
fall a. tho necessity for an extra ses-
sion might arise,
with others. Il IL said. he has dis
GUESSED the subject and moreover u was
a..
thnt the caucus committee appointed
by the House Republicans TO formulate
a currency reform measure met when Il
did. There had been talk u postponing
the meeting until fall. but the President
suggested that Il would be wcll % for
mulate plan aR early as possible and
this statement was made 10 the mem-
bcfH when they met at Atlantic city
a. having come direct from the Prrsl-
dent. together with the further state
ment that the President might call
Congress IN extraordinary session In
the fall for the purpose. among other
things, OF passing currency reform
measure.
Representative DaiEoli. Of pennsyl-
vanilla, and Representative Curtis OF
Kansas. both Of whom are members OF
the caucus committee. saw the PrcAi-
dent today. when the former left the
White House. he said he had no direct
Information upon the subject 81 nm ex-
ira session, but that he had all along
regarded an extra session as more than
probable. At the white House no con-
nrmiliinn can bc ohiaiLsd of the state
m-nt that the President at present
oontsmplatca calling Congress together
In tho fall II II said that Ia visitors
he may have made some observations
regarding the possible dcslrabllity Of
such a course. and that thcs- may have
been given too much weight by his
visitors. The members Of the Repuhli-
can caucus committee who have re-
turned from Atlantic city. are scatter
Ing for their homes.
Gen. Henderson, the chairman, Will
Nenlain here 90 confer with senator
Aldrich. chairman ~ the Senate finance
committee. on his rctufn from Europe
shortly. and will arrange with him
after going over tho details 81 the cur
rency reform plan recommended by his
committee for a Joint mccting of this
two committees later. This Joint aeH-
sion viii probably not DO held until
fall