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Extra Session Talk,

Extra Session Talk.
Strong affirmations have been made Of
the purpose Of the president to call an ex
ira session of the new congress- imnedi-
htely after the adjournment sine die Of
the fifty seventh congress in March.
There is very rational plea to be made
for such action by the president. The
elections of Nov. 4, having returned
good working republican majority In the
house of the ffty-eighth congress, and the
senate majority by legislative elections
suffering no serious impairment, the con-
sideration Of the dominant questions, Gu
ban reciprocity, antitrust and tariff re-
vision, should devolve upon that body, a S
there Is small chance that, at the short
session of the present congress. there will
be time to debate and pass upon any Of
the measures named, except perhaps the
Cuban treaty. which has a fair chance Of
passage, in spite Of the Dalzeu and Oxnard
declarations Of battle against it.
The new congress should take up the
unsettled questions as soon as possible.
Our system, unfortunately, provides for
the election Of house on great questions
q year before it assemblies in regular ses-
sion to consider them and act upon them.
Meantime, other issues may rise and over
shadow those upon which the election
turned. The president may call an extra
session, if urgency is demanded. If the
short session reaches no decisive action
on the subjects named, surely urgency
would justify an extra session. If the
election results did not mean an indorse-
ment of the administration policies the
attitude Of the new congress will show it.
But, if they mean anything, they mean
Endorsement and strong admonition to
republican dissidents from those policies
to right about face and stand by the presi-
dent. These results mean public conf
dence in the presidents patriotism cour-
age, sincerity and craftsmanship. The
public secs that he is not, as peddler Of
toy. balloons, carrying his floating wares
by string to exhibit them, putting forth
aerial theories which he has no intention
of reducing to real concrete effectiveness.
The presidents strenuousness goes much
farther than his rhetoric. He is man of
r
port him. 1T will solve problems which vex
the nation. in a way to enhance the power
and influence of the nation.
The leading democratic papers are not
advocating free trade, but tariff revision.
The democratic party never in the days
of it's power saddled free trade on this
country. The much -lauded Walker tar
If
duty Of about 40 per cent ad valorem. In
1894 they revised the tariff on protective
lines-so much 50 that Mr.. Cleveland flew
Into a passion and wrote some very sui
phurous letters and wouldn't sign the bill
When the war of 1872 came, the demo-
Gratis added 100 per cent to all the duties
then imposed The democratic record
makes the democratic indignation over
republican tariff acts appear rather alb
surd. The first republican tariff, the
Morrill, act Of 1861 on the verge Of a great
war, imposed duties little heavier thar
the Walker tariff. With the exigencies OF
war, duties were increased. In 1883 tar
If rates imposed for war purposes were
considerably reduced. In 1890 the Nc
gar on the free list and reducing duties ir
many schedules; increasing them in 9th.
ers. The succeeding democratic admins.
tration demoraIized revenues and record
ed big deficits and frightfully reduced the
gold reserve. The succeeding republican
administration called an extra session Of
congress to repair the revenue damage an6
lat
largely and beyond doubt needlessly in.
creasing duties in some important SEIZED.
ules leading to large and growing con.
viction in the republican party, as we'll as
outside Of it, that the time has come fol-
another revision of tariff schedules, max
2 ing them conform to the canon indicating
the true basis of protection-the differ.
ence between the cost Of producing an ar
ticle at home and cost of producing the
same article abroad, is the measure o.
duty to be laid on the foreign article
There Is not an industry in this countr,
which will not, under this rule, get all the
protection it needs from foreign compete
manufacturer in this country has the ad
vantage of our liberal drawback system
which gives 80 per cent tariff reduction
on imported material used in the manu-
facturers product exported.
The president has, with a large percent
age Of his party, recognized these facts
and revision will be one Of the facts &C
oomplished during the three future SEES