Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — EXTRA SESSION TO BE BUSY. [ARTICLE]

EXTRA SESSION TO BE BUSY.

Senate XVIH Wransle Over Reciprocity an-J House Over Currency, The administration program for th# extra sews ion of the Fifty-eighth Congress, which will meet Nov. 9, includes the passage of a resolution making the Cuban reciprocity treaty effective and the taking up of currency legislation. It is not believed that the latter question will be disposed of by the end of the extra session, but it is hoped that this will be done before the Christmas holidays. Work on the new Senate currency bill is ■aid to be well under way and It k believed that the Republican members of that body will unite in support of that measure. The Cuban reciprocity resolution will be first introduced and rushed through the House under a special rale. In the Senate, however, it is expected that there will be a lengthy debate, aa the Democrats pro pore to make the occasion potable, hr a general attack upon th* Difigley tariff. During this debate, it k proposed that'the House shall take np the. currency . question and thradk It «4t at / tag tff try.te gat Congress-to ipprqXiats money to take some of tht “Irinka*? eat •f tbe Kaw river.