The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-23
LITTLE GOOD Is
TO BE EXPECTED
Republicans Wide Apart on
Question of Financial Bill.
EXTRA SESSION FORECAST
MAY NOT BE CALLED UNTIL NO
VENEER 9.
EXTRA SESSION FORECAST
Especial to the Herald.)

Especial TO the HeTald.)
Washington, D. c., Aug. 22.-It is
hardly probable that congress will be
convened in extra session prior to No
vember 8. although some prominent
Republicans who have recently con-
ferred with the president have an
nOunced that an earlier session is be-
ing considered. The original object Of
calling the extra session was TO en-
able both houses of congress to pass
a resolution putting into immediate eff
feet the Cuban reciprocity treaty rat
flied at the last session of the senate,
and subsequently ratified by the Cuban
senate. In that treaty it was stipu-
lated that the agreement should not go
into effect until formally approved by
the house of Representatives, but in
as much as Cuba could receive no prac-
teal benefits under the treaty before
the latter part of November an extra
session of congress last spring was
deemed inadvisa BILE. Three weeks in
November is conceded to be sufficient
time for congress to pass any resolu-
ton affecting the Cuban treaty. for
prolonged opposition is not expected,
the sentiment of the Republican ma
jority in the house being in. favor OF
reciprocity.
Leaders Wide Apart,
It was not until June that the presi-
| dent conceived the idea of having con-
| gress, in the extra session, take up
and consider a currency reforfl bill,
| but the fact that Republican leaders
| are widely apart on the currency ques-
| ton, and the lack Of unanimous SEN
| timent makes it absolutely impossible
/ to pass any currency bill in the extra
| session, even though it should begin
in October. The currency question, like
| the tariff, is of too great importance
to be handled hurriedly in the senate
| and many Republican leaders who
/ have recently visited oyster Bay have
| informed the president that little car
be accomplished by attempting to
rush through currency bill prior tC
! the regular session, IN December
In all probability the financial bill
framed by the senate finance commit
tee during the recess, Will be present
| ed to the senate soon after the extra
! session is assembled, and the same bill
| will be presented in the house, tOgeth-
| er with other measures intended to i'm
prove our financial system, and to pro-
vide an elastic currency. The bill may
progress so far in the senate as to re-
ceive a favorable report, but no fina
| action can be had prior to the conven.
ing of the regular session on Dec. Z
| House members, not having been con
suited in the formulation of the sen
ate BILL, and being less unanimous il
i their views on the currency question
i will likely delay their committee re
1 port several weeks. OF course, any bill
| that the house leaders agree upon vii
! be passed by that body in short order
| when the appointed time arrives, bu
| with Speaker Cannon hostile to any
radical currency legislation and de
/ cidedly opposed to the practice of thu
senate in debating to the house, thu
fatal day may be long put off.
Will Be Useless.
It is the cOncensus Of opinion amont
prominent Republicans who visi
Washington, that nothing can be ac
| complished in the extra session, be
yond the passage Of the Cuban resolu
ton. All are in favor of a short ses
sion, beginning not earlier than Nov
9, and many are bitterly opposed to al
earlier session, as they desire to re
main at home until after the close o
the fall campaigns. President RoOse
welt will probably conclude, after fur
Their conferences with Republican lead
ers, that it will be useless to call TIT
extra session in October.