New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-24
CANNON STANDS FIRM.
THE SENATE SURPRISED.
No agreement for adjournment Of
Special Session Reached.
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Washington. Nov 23-Mesabers Of the "bettse
thought Of the Senate are wearing expressions
Of panied surprise. the firm Jaw % Speaker
Cannon looks Steiner than eva, and no agree
ment regarding an adjoarnnspt Of the special
session Of the LvIIIth CONGRESS- has been
reached The better thought" arranged its
programme last week and IL looked beautiful
on paper December 16 was to be set for the
vote on the Cuban bill. and final adjournment
Of the session was 70 be taken on November q
That any one should have had the temerity -
place an obstacle in the way Of the Senate pro-
gramnne is a subject too sad Tor discussion By
the well bred members OF the better thought
When. on last Saturday The Tribune said
that the Senate programme had come into col
usion with a stone fence. the wiseacres smiled
Significantly They had heard OF opposition oy
the House but they had never known the oppo-
sition OF the lower chamber 10 bear any re-
semblance 20 a stone fence On the contrary,
House opposition 20 the wishes Of the Senate.
while at times IL doomed dark and Orlinous
on the horizon. had always evaporated Ike a
morning mist under the genial smile and soft
words OF Uncle Billy Allison or dried up and
blown away before the good natured sarcasm,
of Senator Spooner. OF. In extreme cases. had
been quietly and neatly folded up and hidden
from view in the face Of the commanding pres
ence Of the SENATOR from Rhode Island "or
the lower chamber TO the programmes or tho
better thought." Even certain angry members
Of the House agreed that such thing could
not be possible.
But the Senate had not counted on the per-
sonaI equation which entered into the sirudrior-
Senate leaders and House followers had given
no heed 10 the fact that the easygoirg gentle
man from Iowa had yielded the Speakers gavsi
to the stern gentleman from Illinois," he whose
s1rr-=~ ~k -
many years service as chairman OF the COM
mittee on Appropriations.
To-day there was an informal conferences oc
the leaders Of the House. Payne and Dalzen.
Hemenway and Grosvenor, Hepburn and Taw-
new. gathered in the tiny Office OF the Speaker.
TO talk the matter over. They were not certain
Of the outcome when they went in. but when
they came out every man was prepared 20 de
rather than to yield They found that Uncle
Joe" not only agreed with them, but thar ne
had some decided views OF his own on the sue
ject n the opinion Of the Speaker, hnal ad-
tournment OF the special session OF the LNIIitn.
Congress for any reason save the arrival OF the
time fixed for the regular session without navlnS
accomplished the purpose for which the Presl-
dent called II. might be miseonstrued as an az
IovaI TO the President than Mr. Cannon The
President himself might understand CnaJ Jhe
Senate rules were pecuaE, ana Inss "a 80 &
but time compromise could smut on tne NoW
of Democratic oratory. but the pubic risns no..
and mischievous newspaper Correspondents et.-
might find an opportunity 70 dlstorL the 1acls-
Therefore when the informal conferences was
over. the better thought" OF the House vas
sworn 70 stand pat, and the Senacs 'Ssa~,S
Rv tomorrow morning the Sepate dlPlonlays
will have recovered their lost Sreatn ana L1sh
will begin. a terrible onslaught on tne speaker
There viii be no force used. but al ths VIE
5fnIoroarv in the upper chamber will De calle1
the End no man can tell. though tonight the
betting is on Uncle Joe