The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-15
CREAM of the SPECIALS
FOR SPECIAL SESSION.
President May Call the Senate to
Meet After November Elections.
Walter Wellman's Washington Special to
Chicnon RnnnrA- IInrnld

Walter WelIman's Washington Special to
Chicago Record-Herald
There is a strong proba bility that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will call the Senate to
meet in special session shortly after the
November elections. Official visitors to
Sycamore Hill return wit ha strong be-
lief that the President will ask the Sen
ate to take up Cuban reciprocity about
November 10 or L. 1t is not claimed that
the matter Is settled. but the President S
lnclinations are very strong in that di-
recton. He is said to be convinced that
the Senate will respond to his wishes and
fatIly a reciprocity treaty with Cuba and
thIt the chances of attainin gthis result
VII be better if this body is called to-
gamer few weeks in advance of the
regular session of Congress. The Senate
could then take up the reciprocity treaty
which is even now ready for signature
by the representatives. of the United
Stats and of Cliba-undisturbed before the
regular session begins, certainly before
the holiday adjournment. Unless the
President changes his mind. therefore.
an extraordinary session of the Senate is
likely to be called.
confidence that the Senate will do as he
wishes there are Senators who do not
feel so sure aDount IT. Just now it is the
fashion for Republican Senators and Rep
TeSentdtlNGS 10 go about the country say
ing that of course the President must
have his way and Cuba be given some
concession in our market. But this is
before election. The Congressional poll
tlcians are now on their good beha vior.
This is their time for having harmony.
After election there may be another
story to tell. While the probabilities are
that Cuban treaty will he ratified. there
Is chance that the old fight will be re-
newed. The tariff question Is coming to
nd l.
cations may arise. Some of the Western
Republicans, realizing the hopelesSness of
their demand for an early revision of the
tariff are likely to he as ugly as they
We're last spring over the proposition to
have a tariff reduction, confined wholly to
articles produced in the West. The alert
and agile Mr.. OXnard may be heard
from again.
Men who are watching the larger game
or national politics say the outcome of
President Roosevelts campaign for Gu
ban reciprocity will probable settle the
question whether or not he is to have
opposition for the party nomination in
l9Oi If the Senate permits his treaty to
go through in double quick time that
event will signify the abandonment of
all hope of the Senatorial coteries Of beat
ing the President out of his much-desired
nomination. 1t cannot be said with truth
that the President is popular in the Sem
ate. Grave and reverrsd Senators who
IN interviews pronounce for Roosevelts
nomination have been known to damn
him most vigorously in private converse
ton. One Senator who recently said in
an interview that there would be no OPP
position to the President who had earned
the approval of the party and the coun-
try. privately declares that Mr.. Roosevelt
Is perniclous young upstart" But SEN
ators are always growing in this way,
and as rule their bark is worse than
their bite. Moreover the Senate has for
years been trying to make a President
and has never succeeded The presnt
outlook is that the Senate will humbly
fall in the Roosevelt procession, swallow
Cuban reciprocity with a wry face and
offer no opposition to the Presidents poll
cies or selection as the next party stand
ard-bea"e.. Should this expectation not
chance in ten-there will be some lively
doings Capitol Hill next winter.
One danger to the Presidents program
lies in the possible rise of an annexation
party. A large number of public men of
both parties are convinced the Cuban
program, political and economic, can
never be finally settled except by incor-
poration of the island within the great
republic. A reciprocity treaty would post
pone annexation, and for this reason
the anneXatiOnists may attempt to defeat
the proposed treaty. Colonel Huston of
the army, who has just returned from
Cuba says there is great distress there
and that all the business interests are
clamoring for annexation to the United
States. If annexation does come to the
front as a practical question, then will
arise a great contention over the form
that Incorporation is to take. The con-
nexation-that is to say, a colonial form