Show IAT CRESSON SPRINGS The President May Call an Extra Session of Congress THE TARIFF BILL IN THE HOUSEr The Senate Ameiidnvns are NonConcurred in Enloes Resolution in Relation to Kennedys Onslaught In the Houses CIsso House-s SiitiNGs Pa Sept liiIt bas been arranged that the river and harbor ap ropriatiDii bill shall be placed before tIre President immediately on being signed by the speaker It is not likely that the public will bo kept in ignorance for many more days in regard to that measure pecula iou is about evenly divided as to its prospects pros-pects those who are sure of a veto being about as numerous as those who are confi dent of approval The President said this morning that i the weather continues favorable and public business does not he prevent will remain at Cresson until the end of next week There is every reason to believe the Pres ident is seriously considering the advisabil ty of calling an extra session of Congress It is known that several prominent Repub icans have advised such a course with a view to an earlier consideration of the federal fed-eral election bill Persons who have talked with the President say he will certainly reconvene re-convene Congress if certain pending measures meas-ures in which he takes great interest are net disposed of at this session These in elude the antilottery bill the supreme court bill and the land bills now in the Senate and the postal shipping bill now awaiting action in the House The Presi dent is known to be specially interested in the passage of the election bill and would probably feel justified in calling an extra session for consideration of it and such other important measures now pending as may not be disposed of this session In the House WASHINGTON Sept 13 McKinley reported re-ported back the tariff bill with the Senate amendments with a recommendation that the amendments be non concurred in Referred Re-ferred to the committee of the whole McKinley then offered a resolution from the committee on rules but before it could be read Enloe rose to a question of privilege privi-lege and offered the following Resolved That tho clerk of the House be dlrested to communicate td the Senat the fact that the House reprobates and condemns the utterances Robert P Kennedy i Ken-nedy delivered in the House September reflecting upon the character and integrity of the Senateas a body pingley raised the point of order that this did not present the previous question of privilege as it would take him McKinley from the floor At the suggestion of tnt i speaker Enloe withdrew his resolution for the present and McKinley reported a resolution for the immediate consIderation L of the tariff bill in the House McKinley gave a brief statement of the Senate i amendments After two hours of general debate it I shall bo in order to move to nonconcur in i II the Senate amendments in gross and agre < ito i-to a committdo of conference asked for by tho Semite and the House shall withou further delay or other motion proceed to vote on said motion The nrflvious Question on the resolutio 1 was ordered yeas IS nays 71 Blount of Georgia protested against the resolution contending that it was a parody on deliberation McMillin of Tennessee also opposed the resolution and criticised the committee on rules for reporting it The majority in caucus determined not only that the minority minor-ity should be throttled but that the plumed I I knight should be throttled The resolution was adopted yeas 114 nays 72 The House nonconcurred in the Senate amendments to the tariff bill Mollae of Arkansas opposed the bill both in its original form and as amended on the general ground that it discriminated against farming industries Payson of Illinois thought various respects re-spects the bill a it passed the Senate was preferable to the measure as it passed the House He spoke in favor of tne Senate amendment placing binding twine on the free list He believed in Repub n 1n nO 1 0 uu tnn l UHlH UU lil UU u ueve In he hasty theory of protection which put upon the dutiable list an article of raw material which was absolutely free of duty and the manufacture of which was in the hands of a combination which could be indicted under the act passed by the present Congress After protesting against the placing of works of art upon the free list he touched upon the sugar question md hoped the House would stand by its schedule Vaux of Pennsylvania wished to say to the farmer and laborer that this tariff bill was a cheat The majority be lieved in every trust save onetrust in a righteous and just God McKinley said the committee on rules had heard on reporting the resolution that it really was giving too much time for debate He invited the attention of the House to the fact that not fifteen minutes of the two hours was given to the discussion of the Senate amendments on the tariff bill The trouble with the members on the other side was that they did not discuss the maasure but names and while they were doing this the majority had gono on and done more public business than had been done by any House of Representatives since tho foundation founda-tion of the government The Senate amendments were nonconcurred in Yeas 120 nays 82 Enloe then callod up his resolution in regard re-gard to Kennedys speech Grcsvenor of Olio raised tho piont of order that the resolution was not in order The time to have called Kennedy to order was whon he delivered his speech Enloo contended that Kennedy had no more right to make a personal attack upon I member of the Senate than he Enloe had to state that the speaker was corrupt i or the President a criminal It was duo to the House tnat no utterances reflecting upon the Senate should bo admitted into the Record Bayne of Pennsylvania concurred in tho remarks or Enloo and trusted that in the interest of what was right of what was due to the House in honor of itself that no technicality should be allowed to coma in tho way of condemning the utterances of the gentleman from Ohio Grosvenor said he made the point of or der because ho believed that whatever ac ton the House took should be in the regu lar wayby a report from the committee Bayno offered an amendment to Enloes resolution directing the public printer to exclude Kennedys speech from the Record Adams of Illinois spoke in favor of En loes resolution and pending acton the < House on motion of McKinloy adjourned |