Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — EXTRA SESSION LIKELY. [ARTICLE]

EXTRA SESSION LIKELY.

Congress Will I’cobably Be Convened the Middle of Varcb. A Washington correspondent declares thin tlie Senators nu i Representatives •who have heeu insisting that there is no occasion for an ext ra session of Congress, anil that there would tie none, have been convinced that the I’rcsident, who is the. sole arbiter of this question, holds to the contrary view ami that he will cull the Fifty-seventh Congress together in extraordinary session about the middle of March. In fact, the President told some of his Congressional callers that he would in all probability call nil extra session for Ma: ’» 13, which is the same date fixed for . .ie extra session of the Fifty-fifth Congress four years ago. 1 . is customary •" allow some days’ notice by proclamation. But an unofficial intimation lias been given that Senators and Representatives may have full warning in order to arrange their personal plans. The proclamation convening the Senate in extraordinary session is issued before inauguration day. The Senate is a continuous body. If there is to be n change of President, the retiring-executive states iu the proclamation that the call is issued at tlie request of the Incoming President. A proclamation convening both Senate and House is not issued uutil the 4th of March or later. Senators and Representatives have been given to understand that the extraordinary session was certain if tlie Cuban constitutional convention finished its work before the adjournment of Congress. Tlie President regards it as absolutely necessary thnt Cuban relations receive the earliest possible consideration. In n burning house at Philadelphia, a parrwt made piteous cries. Policeman Dean ruahed through the smoke and rescued the bird, which screeched, “Let us get out of here.” „