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Show this one.' On the side of the extra session ses-sion are most of those who believe in doing things with a rush; tliey contend that a majority of the voters have spoken for a lower tariff an J that it is the duty of the democratic President and Congress Con-gress to give it to them at the earliest possible moment, and that six or eight months should be saved by holding an extra session of Congress. Against the extra session are those conservative men who believe that "it is better to be slow than to be sorry;" they contend that it would be dangerous to the welfare of the great commercial interests of the country to make too sudden a change in the tariff and that it will be much better to spend the intervening time in deciding decid-ing upon just what sort of a tariff law shall be substituted for the McKinley law, at the regular sesston, than to jump headlong i.ito it at an extra session. It is positively claimed by those opposed to the extra session that Mr. Cleveland is with them, but Senator Carlisle, who has been designated by rumor as the head of the new cabinet, says Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land has not determined the question, and will not until hv; has had time to consider it in all its possible bearings. There are, however, two contingencies either of which may compel Mr. Cleveland Cleve-land to call an extra session, whether his personal opinion be for or against it-First it-First the Senate and House may, at the coming session, either intentionally or un-intentionally.get un-intentionally.get into a wrangle over some of the regular appropriation bills that might last until the fifty second congress expired by limitation, at noon on the 4th of next March. Then an extra ses sion would have to be held to pass the appropriation bill or bills that had failed. The other contingency is that, owing to the probability of a change in the tariff law, ceitainly next winter and it may be sooner, the government receipts re-ceipts from customs duties may fall so low as to necessitate the calling of an extra sesion to provide the means for raising the money necessary to run the government during the next fiscal year. Treasury officials regard a big deficit as almost certain for the next fiscal year; but, of course they may be mistaken. There is a marked difference of opinion in the ranks ol the peoples party as to the lu'.ure of that organization-Jerry organization-Jerry Simpson says the mission of the party is ended and that its members wil1 mostly go with him into the democratic pi.rty. Senator Peljex says Simpson only speaks for one man, and that he believes the peoples party, under another name probably he doesn't like its present one will be one ol the leading parties in the next Presidential campaign.il it does not elect the next President, The next presidential election is too lar off to interest many people, but the opening session of the fifty-third congress', whether it be extra or regular, is near enough lor everybody to wonder whether the people's party senators and Senator Stewart, who will be re-elected from Nevada as an independent, will vote together to-gether and dictate the legislation of the senate, as they will have the power to do if calculations of the membership ol the next senate now made shall turn out to be correct, and there is little probability proba-bility of their being otherwise. The di rect question was asked Senator Pefl'er, but he declined to even express an opinion on the subject saying that it was a matter for the future .consideration Oj those most deeply interested. He inti. mated however, that he believed the people's party senators would willingly vote for as deep a cut in the tariff as the democrats can put through the house Ivan Petroff, the Russian who was special census agent lor Alaska during the taking of the census of 1880 and who was again appointed in 1890, disappeared when it was discovered that he had furnished fur-nished the state department false information infor-mation to be used in the Behring's Sea arbitration case and he was a day or two formally dismissed from the Government service, although his whereabouts is still unknown. It is a curious case and opinion is divided as to whether he was paid to falsify his statistics or w hether he was merely overzealous in serving the government Irom which he drew a snug salary. 'A hatever his reason or motive the work has all to be done over again aud as a consequence the court of arbitration will not be able to meet until February. Superintendent Poller says he believes that ill health has afiected Petroft 's mind. A coincidence that has been commented upon by maliciously inclined persons, is that Supt. Porter is himself an ex-British subject. It is only Kir to say that he has been a natnralized American for many years, and that his loyalty is unquestioned by his official superiors. Washington Letter. Will there be an extra session o( Congress Con-gress at the opening ol the Cleveland admnisi ration? is .the question now brought to the front by the National Kaleidoscope. Like all other q iesiions, public and private, there are two sides lo |