The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-06-04

a, aanrsss,on necessitatng special revenue measures stubbornness on the
par. Oh 3n+ euII negotiations requiring earlier attention than that supplied by
tho drstN Monday in December, these have supplied the necessary reasons to
"' President Jefferson called to special sessions during his administration
did II ex What it. could to facilitate the biggest real estate deal on record and
cheerfury aided the President to bend the constitution to the breaking point
nassed from France to the United States A bargain which gave to this
p pnntur s soma 81 it's choicest and most productive land at IN average cost Of
? cents an acre must be regarded a s advantageous. Posterity in decent graft
tude cal find n fault with methods of reasoning by which the farsighter
statesman, jefferson, reconclled his abstract views concerning constitutional
government and his practical wisdom in carrying through a n important extra
n nun 1eaesons second term the Napoieonlc vars led o a special s@
shn which vas convened Oct 26 1907. Both England and France had for
m mmms. p oow as !" th ns a. $ events afterward proved. the evil dy was mere
ly being held back by either conciiatory or mildly raanatory measures. 81
ar as England "a concerned. When the English warship Leopard fred
upon the American rigate Chesapeake. just outside Hampton Roads, in June,
1907, killing and wounding several Americans, mel wore Grape in honor Of
and at oc dispatched a vessel to England to demand reparaton m sun
Congress to meet in special session Oct. 90 at which time he hoped
week in December. As it al not satisfactory, the brief but momentous
nous embargo policy prohibiting American vessels from leaving for a foreign
port under any condition: American sailors we're to be protected by beins
ished by being deprived Of American goods. Ten years before this special
Congress 70 meet May 10 1877, for the purpose Of supporting his policy to:
the people during the time of Adams and Jefferson. His first special session
The second which convened May "a, 1918, and lasted until Aug. 2, had to
provide additional Ways and eans for financing the war with Eneland'
fearsome a load as foreign war; financial panic At first Van Buren, was de.
he issued a proclamation calling for a n extra session to meet Oh the first
Monday of September, 1897, to consider great and weighty matters" The
NJ cashiers checks such as were used in the fall Of 1907, but bits of paper
wereu used instead Of money.
March II, 1871, William Henry Harrison issued a call or a special SEES
sion of Congress to meet May 81. When it convened John Tyler. through
Harrsons death, had succeeded to the presidency. In 1856 the regular ses-
sion of Congress closed Aug. 49, The Republican House had refused to pass
an appropriation bill for the army stationed in Kansas without a stipulation
that the soldiers would 10 be used to enforce DEGREES of the proslavery
Legislature Of the Territory. President Pierce ate once issued a call for a
special session % meet Aug. 81 1t was in session IN week, during which
the House "a V way and passed the bill without stipulation.
When President Lincoln set July 4. 1861, as the day O which the extra
session of the Thirtyseventh Congress should convene many criticised his
judgment in selecting a date 70 distant from the time o. his inauguration.
1t a called to provide ways and mean for carrying N the war. In thirty
three days 1t passed sixtyOne public and seven private bills n five joint
resolutions. It's measure called out 10000 volunteers. appropriated $500,
100000, provided for a navy, closed the ports Of seeding States. defined con-
spiracy against the government and provided the punishment. confscated
property used against the government inc increased duties under the Nor
rl tariff which Buchanan had signed shortly before the close Of his term.
No session of Congress eve settled more momentous issues and no Con-
gress las contained nor noteworthy names
During the Hayes administration two extra sessions were called. both for
the purpose Of passing appropriation bills which should have been enacted
att the regular session. President Cleveland. confronted by a financial depres
in 1893, as was President Van Burn in 1881, vas II reluctantly forced
to call a extra session to consider ways and "a Of relieving the prevailing
conditions. Convened Aug. I 1893. this special session adjourned Nov. g.
If 1903 called BY President Roosevelt helped to set in vogue the phrase
reconstructfve recess