Year: 1877

80


A Washington dispstch of the Asso-
ciated Press, last night. says:


1t was decided at the meeting of the
Cabinet, to-day, that the extra session Of
Congress, rendered desirable by the failure
of the last Congress to pass the army ap-
preparation bill, is not to be called to
meet in June, but on October 15. This
change of the original programme was
made upon a careful consideration of the
general interests of the country, and also
in compliance with the almost unanimous
desire of the business community, as well
as of the members of Congress them
selves, as far as they could be consulted,
that there should be no session of Con-
gress this summer if it could be avoided,
and upon mature inquiry into all the cir
cumstances of the case, it was ascertained
that without any immediate appropria-
ton of money the army can be clothed
and supplied with all its necessities, and
that until the fifteenth ofeOctober only
one regular pay day has to be passed.


1t was also considered that if Congress
meet in October it may remain in con-
tinuous session and finish its business
before next summer, SO as to avoid the
inconvenience of the hot season next year
as well as this year.


A proclamation calling the extra ses-
sion for October Is is to be issued with
out delay.


The Cabinet remained in session until
three o'clock.


The announcement that the extra ses-
sion had been postponed to the middle of
October caused general CONSERVATION.
The naval officers pay for April, May and
June, some $S00,000 and $500, 600 de-
fciency in the Department of Justice
must remain unpaid.


The disappointment among the citizens
of the District, who anticipated gay and
| profitable summer, is great. There is
much distress here for the necessaries of
| life, which the extra session would have
practically relieved.


The paragraph telegraphed early to-
| night was from the official bulletin. A
member of the Cabinet says the change
from the fourth of June to the fifteenth
OF October was determined upon for the
reasons stated in the bulletin, and not in
any degree from any apprehension on the
part of the administration as to the con-
| sequences of discussion of the Presi-
dents Southern policy. This matter, he
says, was not taken into consideration in
the Cabinet deliberations. In fact, this
gentleman continued: "Looking at the
question from merely political stand
point, we would have inferred that the
criticisms and attacks on his policy should
be made at an early date, and that all
possible explosions of wrath should quick
ly occur, and thus the sooner exposed to
whatever force they may possess.


Another member explains in regard to
the postponement of an appropriation for
the army that the soldiers are now paid
only every two months, and that no very
great inconvenience will be caused to
them by the intermission of one pay day,
as this has happened to most of them
heretofore.


The officers, it is believed, can quite
readily obtain money for few months
upon their pay rolls, and there is author
ity for providing for quartermaster and
commissary stores. Of course, in these
calculations it is anticipated Congress will
promptly pass the appropriation in Octo-
Der.


About $4,000, 600 will be required to
carry on the army between the first OF
July and the time Congress can pass the
appropriation bill.