Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — THE EXTRA SESSION. [ARTICLE]

THE EXTRA SESSION.

Proclamation by the President Calling Congress Together. The National legislature Will Meet August 7 to Consider the Financial Situation. The following proclamation was issued ate o’clock Friday evening: “Executive Mansion, “Washington, D. C., June 30, 1893. “Whereas, The distrust and apprehension concerning the financial situation which pervades all business circles have already caused great loss and damage to pur people ana threaten to cripple our merchants, stop the wheels’of manufacture, bring distress and privation to our farmers, and withhold from our workingmen the wage of labor. “And whereas, The perilous condition Is largely the result of a financial policy which the Executive branch of the Government finds embodied in unwise laws which must be exccutued until repealed by Cougress; “Now, therefore I. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, in performance of a constitutional duty, do, by this proclamation, declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both houses of the Congress of the United States at the Capitol in the city of Washington, on the 7th day of August next, at 12 o’clock, noon, Idtheend that people may be relieved through legislation from present and impending danger and distress. All those entitled to act as members of the Fifty-third Congress are required to take notice of this proclamation and attend at the time and place above stated.

“Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at the city of Washington, on the 30th-day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. “Groveb Cleveland.” The President left Washington for Buzzard’s Bay, Friday evening. He will be absent three weeks. The determination to call an extra session of Congress the first week in August was only reached at Friday morning’s session of the Cabinet. It is believed in Washington that the action of the British government in suspending silver coinage th India brought matters to a crisis and induced the President to alter his determination, heretofore expressed, not to convene the extra session before September., The proclamation ! was a surprise in Jfew York financial circles, but the effect on the business situation, it Is believed, will be salutary.