The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-01-03
THE SUBSIDY BILL DOWNE0.
Mr.. Hanna's Shipping Act
Cannot Pass This Session.
The Senator's Reported Threat of Fore
ing an Extra Session Is Ignored
and Could Not BE Carried
Out by Him.

Washington, Dec 27.-The report
cd threat of Senator Hanna to force
an extra session of congress in case
the shipping bill should not be
atfirmatively acted upon before
March 4, is given no serious atten-
tion here. BY a majority of persons,
whose opinions are worth quoting,
it is not believed that Mr. Hanna
ever intimated that friends of the
shipping bill would cause the failure
OF one or more of the general appro-
FRICTION bills in case their pet meas
ure should fail, in order to furnish
cause for converting the Fifty seventh
congress in extra session. But even
il Mr.. Hanna should decide upon SO
impolitic "a program az that lndlcat-
ed, it is reasonably certain he would
not receive sufficient support from
republican senators to carry it out.
Moreover, the president does not
want the Fifty-seventh Congress con
vened until the time fixed by law for
its regular assembling and this fact
is we'll known to republican mana
gers in both houses. The failure of
the army reorganization bill, or any
of the general appropriations, would
make an extra session imperative,
but at this time there is no danger of
such II contingency.
The army bill will be taken up by |
the senate, after the holidays, and |
the date of its passage will be deter |
mined largely by the attitude of the |
advocates of the shipping bill If |
they decide to recognize the inc, ita- |
BILE and agree not to unduly press
their measure the army bill will be
disposed of within a few days. On |
the other hand, if it be discovered |
that Senator Hanna and Senator
Frye are determined to hold the ship
ping bill before the senate and that
they can depend upon the support of
a majority for that purpose, the OPP
position will undoubtedly use the
army bill to consume as much time
as possible, holding it before the
+ senate until the legislative appropri-
alton or one other of the appropria-
ton bills is ready, when it will be
permitted to pass. The fact is that
the shipping bill cannot be passed at
this session, and that must be APP
parent to Senator Hanna and Sena
tor Frye.
The opposition will use the army
and appropriation bills to consume
time, and as these measures will be
given precedence of the shipping bill
there will be no trouble in nursing
them in such manner as to strange
the shipping bill. 1t is folly to as
sumo that Mr.. Hanna will interpose
n any event to prevent the passage
1f these imperative measures. 1t is
wen worse than folly to assume that
At NOuttl IIdhc HIS eHetDlNe, |
wen if he should interpose. The
army bill and all the general appro-
1riations will be atfirmatively acted
Ipon. OF that there is not the
doubt; it is also very prob
lble that the reapportionment bill
will be passed by the two houses. If I
here is to be an extra session the |.
PRESIDENT will not have failure of any Z
II the imperative measures as cause Z
or action. Furthermore, it is not P
It all probable that he would call {
ongress in extra session to consider I
he shipping bill, whose failure at
his session may be said TO be as
ured