The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-02
AN EXTRA SESSION OF
SENATE is NOW
ASSURED
Present Session Of Congress
Ends at Noon Wednesday
and There Is Little Pros
pect of Any Legislation
Except the Supply Bills.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 1.-The
senate has more than enough work TO
keep it occupied during the last week
of the session and do The besy 1T may
there will be much left undOne when
the gavel of the president pro tempore
shall fall at the close of the final sit
ting at noon Wednesday, when the
last session Of the Fifty-seventh con-
gress will close by constitutional lirni-
tation.
The calendar even at this late day
IS quite full, and there are many more
bills in committee than have been re-
ported out. In The present congress,
like most others, only about ten or
twelve per cent of the bills introduced
have become laws, but it is also to be
said that the record Of bills introduced
far exceeds that Of any previous con-
gress. Tuesdays session viii be con-
tinued until noon Wednesday, and
the senate will be in almost continuous
session day and night until then.
OF the supply bills, the sundry civil,
poStoffice, naval and fortilica ions bills
are still in the hands Of conference
committees, but there dre no points in
dispute In connection with any OF them
which are likely to be difficult Of ad-
jus stment. The general deficiency bill
is the only one of the appropriation
bills that has not passed the senate ana
Bond Deposit Bill Next.
Aside from the appropriation bills
and conference reports preference will
be given to the Aldricn bank deposit
bill. Senator Aldrich expresses con-
fidence that this bill vii. pass during
the day, but some of the Democratic
senators say that its passage tomorrow
is out Of the question because of the
number of speeches 10 be made on it,
and they contend that If its passage
shall he delayed beyond that day it
cannot be gotten through the house.
There IS also great anxiety to get ac-
ton on the Philippine tariff bill, and
While there is also opposition to this
measure 1t is intimatej that this en-
tagonism might cease III case of a ces-
Sation Of the efforts to pass the bond
tposit bill, but Senator Aldrich is not
disposed to yield to this kind of argu-
ment. 1t, therefore, seems probable
that the greater part Of the day to-
morrow, Will be devoted TO the al irich
bill and to appropriations.
There will be a determined effort to
get the Philippine bill N shape 20 send
to the president before the final dis
solution of congress on We lnesdaY, but
this, as intimated above, may depend
on the fate of tie financial measure
All senators understand the fact :hat
at this time in the session any one or
passage Of any Individual measure.
A final attempt will be made to press
the Panama canal treaty to z sonclu-
sion in the nope that Senator Morgan
may relent in his opposition ana allow
the treaty to be ratified .'Gther than
force an extra session of tie senate
His friends say, however. that he has
no such intention, and they add that
he is willing TO accept the full re-
Eponsibility for called session.
Extra Session Inevitable.
Senators generally, therefore, have
given up all hope of avoiding the ex-
ira session, and now are concerned
principally as to the time it shall begin
and the length of time it shall occupy.
Some of them are advising the presi-
dent not to ask the body 60 raassemhie
before Monday, the 9th inst. while
Senator Aldrich is urging that the call
be issued for the 9Th inst, the day aft
er the dissolution of the present con-
gress.
The principal, # not tia only, duty
OF the extra session will be the con-
slderat1on of the Panama canal treaty
ana the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but
the senate may. if it so desires, take
up the question of the reorganization Of
the committees. No disposition toward
this step has yet manifested itself and
1t does not now seem probable.
On the first day of the new session
the new senators will be sworn in.
Among those who will take the oath
OF office will be Mr.. Smoot, of Utah,
against whom, on account OF his con-
nectton with the Mormon church and
his alleged adherence to it's tenets, old
and new, number of protests have
been filed. These protests do not con-
stitute proof, and, as Mr.. Smoot's Gre
dentials are entirely regular, he will be
allowed to take his seat and the in
Vestigation, If one is to be made, will
.be postponed until the regular session
of congress, beginning in December
next. If there should be objection to
Mr.. Smoot taking his seat, the cere-
mony, under the rules of the senate
might be postponed for a day 1t is
intmated that there may be some dis
cusslon of his case during the extra
session, but, if so, it would precede
all committee action and would come
up either as question of privilege or
In connection with some other ques-
ton.
The senate spent three hours todav
In eulogies of four deceased members
of the house.
House FiIibuster Goes On.
WASHINGTON. D. c.. March Il
The Democrats of the house have de-
clded to prosecute their filjbuster un-
I'll congress expires by limitation at
noon, March 4. and the three remaining
DAYS OF the session, therefore, promise
10 be largely repetitions of the three
that is all business will have to be
transacted in the face of every obsta-
Gle which the minority can interpose
But even by the laborious processes
TO which the majority will be nut II
is believed ample time remains to get
through the conference reports on the
remaining five appropriation hills
There Is slim chance for much bevond
that, so far as the house is concerned
TWenty-seVen bills With senate
amendments are on the Speakers tahle
One or two of these may get through
but the great majority are doomed tn
die where they are. The. one bin in
which the Republican leaders are mar
tcularly interested is the Aldricb
financial bill, and If it comes over from
the senate way will be found proba-
bly, through the operation of a snecial
rule to secure action on IT. The com
p1catlons arising out of the fact that
hostile committee, that on banking
and currency, has Jurisdiction over
the subject, can be overcome bv rnIe
1t is believed that the Immigration
bill, which passed the senate vestar-
day in amended form, also will be act
ed on.
One of the things which gives the
Republican leaders grave concern in
these closing hours of the session is
the weakness of the position of the