New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-02
SPECIAL SESSION NOV. Is.
NOW PRESIDENTS PLAN.
Stand Patters" Regard Postpone
ment as Victory for I'heir Side
rFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU


washington June 1.-The President has def
nitely determined to postpone the special session
of Congress which he had intended to call for
october 16 until after the fal! elections, and he
now expects that the next Congress will convene
On November IS among those who have be-
leved from the first that they would be able TO
persuade the President not to call an eZtraordi-
nary session In October there is considerable
iublation and they are now confident that they
will ultimately be able to induce him to abandon
the idea OF a special session entirely
1t has been urged on the President that little
good would be accomplished by bringing Con-
eress together at a date unwecome to all It's
members that members would respond to such
cal, in i'll hunor and that this fact would menace
legislation which he regards of the utmost
importance 1t is now intimated by the op-
ponents of any special session that they WI"
he able to prove to the President when tne
time comes the futility of convening Congress
in advance of the date specified by law the
first Monday in December. The next move OF
tho onnonent7 Of a special session will be to
point out to the President that by convening
Congress on November 13 he would gam at
most only three weeks time. and in all prou-
ability only two weeks would be gained 1t is
freely predicted that members or congress-
especially those of the lower chamber. would
'the constructive recess blunder'; or. in other
words. that they would never again permit one
session to be merged in another, as by dolhs
this they lost the extra mileage which many
congressman regard as a special preroSauNe
TO which they are entitled whenever they meet
in extra ordinary session. To make sure OF Sc
curing their mileage, it is said, the members
would insist on final adjournment at least
week in advance of the date for the regular
meeting and it will remain for the PRESIDENT
to determine whether an extra session of two
weeks will be worth to the people the S1So'ooo
which Congress will appropriate for extra mile
age.
The President does not believe that Congress
would actually waste a weeks time in order TO
secure this extra mileage. but there are some
leaders of both houses of Congress who say
that it would he Impossible to induce the rank
and file to abstain from appropriating the money
for this perquisite which they regard as their
due when they meet in special session
The "stand-patters' regard the Presidents de-
cisIon to postpone the extra session until alter
the fall elections victory for them Ihey
say that it entirely disposes of the agreement
reached between Senators Aldrich and German
whereby the Democrats were pledged TO permit
a vote on a tariff readjustment bill before the
regular session. and that, in the absence of such
an agreement any discussion of the tariff would
be prolonged until close to the fall elections
as to leopard the chances of Republican mem
bers of the House who must stand for re-elec-
ton in the fall
1t will be remembered that last spring Speaker
Cannon while oontesfing the necessity of any
readjustment of the tariff schedules, declared
that if it were to be attempted ii should he
done at a special session in the spring Senator
Aldrich however, protested against a spring
and proIniSed do all in his power
TO secure the agreement with the minority Sen
ators which he finally accomplished. The
''stand-patters' now say that the House VIII
not send a tariff bill to the Senate next session.
with the probability OF the debate being in
definitely postponed through the absence OF a
closure rule in the Senate.
1t is further argued that. as the President re-
CARDS railroad rate legislation Of infinitely
more importance than tariff readjustment, that
issue will have the right of way over any dis
cussion of the tariff, and this contributes one
more arrow to the quiver of the "stand-patters