Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — CONGRESS MAY BE GALLED. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESS MAY BE GALLED.

I’tatesmen Think Body Muy Be Convened in Extra Session. Tho probability of President McKinley ilsutng a call for an extra session of the Fifty-seventh Congress engrossed the attention of government officials when the Supreme Court decision was made public. Opinions as to the necessity for calling Congress together in advance of the regul*r session in December differ, says a correspondent, but it is a significant fact tfcut some of the best equipped men in public life, men of experience and judgment, believe that the President cannot clcape calling Congress together. Others of his friends and advisers point to the fact that Congress in enacting the Bfooner Philippine amendments last February authorized the President to fix a tariff for the archipelago and declare without reservation that he can proceed under authority of that act to adjust the affairs of the Philippines so they will come within the scope of the court's decision. One of tiie justices of the Supreme Court said, however, that he did not believe that Congress could lawfully invest the President with authority to establish tariff regulations or laws in the Philippines any more than it could delegate him with authority to enact n tariff law for the United States. This view la shaded by ninny of the President’s closest friends. Kx-Senntor Chandler was quite confident that the only recourse of tiie President is to issue a call for an extra sessior. Senators and Representatives in Washington all feel that the likelihood of Congress being convened in an extraordinary session before July 1 is very stro'ig.