The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-03-06
PRESIDENT
ISSUES CALL
tbe Senate, to Open
on March g..
SURRENDER TO MORGAN
,,,.ma Senator Forced Thi
Course by Opposition to
Panama Treaty.
,,,c,rEss OF THE SESSION
l.. No Doubt Il Senatorial Minds
'nss That of Morgan. That Treaty
will Be Ratified by the Ex-
traordinary Session.

traorciHdty SSS
u.,,inrton, March 3.-The pres.-
".aaav signed a proclamation call
&c" extraordinary session of the
Ing ant the Fifty-eighth congress to
ssst March 8.
en" 70 n ratification OF the canal
suv, is responsible for h extra SEN
Urea" sssion. Senator Morgan, In dis
s.ssing the matter with n OF nus col
eusSn nas saturday afternoon, said he
did not hope 10 oe1eae ee e -
The extra session.
!" rorces Extra Session for This.
NV only object said he, "is to keer
nv record straight. The ana
ny which will grow out of the
Top nnma canal will smell to heaven.
rssmr nosterity to know that / opposed
SN WEE to the limit of my ability"
" Tha republican leaders, by abandon
,-at this time effort to secure ratif-
ansion of the canal treaty, will be in
.,,ch better position to get all other
h,sinass off their hands. So long as an
oEacntiye session had not been held to
s;sruss treaties, all other business was
impossible.
There is determined opposition in
some Quarters to the Cuban treaty, and
Il would easily have been sufficient to
hoye prevented ratification at this SEES
sion even if Senator Morgan had been
loss determined. Sensational Develop
ments in the executive session Friday
aftornoon did not become public until
Saturday. Everybody took it for grant,
nj that time was being killed in the
usral fashion, and those who had here
tofore supplied the information for the
press tried to smooth over the deyel-
opnents in the executive session. 1t
is not thought that the session will be
extended over more than a few weeks.
II should be able to dispose Of the trea-
ties and adjourn in time for the presi-
dent to start on his western trip. The
uncertainty, however, has aused him
10 make the announcement that he may
not be able to attend the dedication
Of the St. Louis worlds fair April 80.
This would probably mean a delay In
bis western trip.
President as a Lobbyist.
The president is a great lobbyist. He
gets what he wants from congress. No
president was ever more successful in
securing legislation. He has had a
distinct program for the session which
was outlined in his annual message and
has already had the qualification of ap-
proving every important measure he re-
commended except the bill to reduce tho
duty or imports from the Philippine
Islands to 25 per cent. Of the regular
rates of the Dingley act. Mckinley was
quite successful in securing legislation
also, because he had been a member OF
the house of representatives SO long
that he knew how to do 1t and a q
mas .rC -, - rit.n ,,,1y - r,,t{I 1t~,. hut hi9
predecessors, Harrison, Cleveland, Hayd
aid Arthur, way back to Grants time,
usually contented themselves with
making recommendations in their
formal messages and left the respon-
siOillty upon congress. President
Roosevelt looks at things differently,
and concciVes it to be his duty to keep
after congress personally as well as
officially, and privately as well as form
any, until his recommendations are
adopted and framed INTO law. He has
done. an immense amoHnt of effective
lobbying during the present session.
Scarcely a week has passed without
One or more conferences at the White
mousse, usually around his dinner table,
OF the men whom he depends upon TIC
put q bill through, and he generally
manages to infect them with his Owl
enthusiasm and determination. Then
after getting the natural advocates OF a
measure started, he tackles its oppon-
FAtS, coaXing them to the White house
ana discussing the objections they ad-
vance until he gets next to them,' as
Tie boys say, and reaches some COM
mon ground upon which both sides car
stand.
Roosevelt is personally responsible
iof all the antitrust legislation thai
HIS nae ~ 1f~1 ~ ~ ~oCh 'rnn-
sfess. But for his persistent, doggec
ana untiring determination to carry
Out the pledges made by the republican
party III the last campaign nothing
Whatever would have been done. AL
th0uSh every leader Of that party Is
now claiming a share of the credit AM
cohsfatuating the country upon the
great things ne himself has done. very
!c% OF them We're willing to submit any
ue!lhlte proposition at the beginning OF
."e session, and most of them We're De
ttrihlhed to evade or postpone the issue
a. long as possible. But h presiden'
brought every one of them around, ever
senator Aldrich, who has been tht
most extreme as ne is the Bile de
teh'ier of the corporations known a:
trusts.
The legislative trophies hanging a
.ne PRESIDENTS belt are the three anti
rust propositions. the new department
:: and labor, the law 70
Jn% revision of the currency of TIT
t~"iInpine islands. the law to increast
VIZ SHI efficiency of the army by the estab
,tsA'leht of the staff corps, h law Il
~,sUrsanize the militia, the plan to re
"ll,u and extend the military academ.
- "est Point on a $40. 200, 900 basis ant
we new union station for Washington
IA 20dition to these he has been dl
rs,tE interested In getting the new la"
,rtulIlhg the use of safety appliances
l., Talifoad trains. the revision of tn
'"Fuptcy act, the new agriculture
I'!'ttlnent building and new build
M,S Tor the national museum, a q o
NJ "ras and the passage of some klh'
an act to relieve the annual strin
>S'cy in the currency.
Refused to Buy.