Show KNOCKS OUT GEN WOOD Extra Session Will Die a Natural Death NO RECESS FOR CONGRESS Sampson Liko Other Candidates Candi-dates Go Down With Wood FiftyEighth Congress Expires by Constitutional Limitations on Monday Noon Washington Dec 5BY the manner of adjourning the House today the extra ex-tra session of the Fiftyeighth Congress will expire by constitutional limitation Monday when the regular season will begin This eliminates The possibility of u recess between the two sessions and gives opportunity for the President to review his civil and military appoint lucrts t Such appointments as have not been confirmed by the Senate during the extra ex-tra session must be renewed Imply In the form of nomination which In ef feet are but l recommendations and do not become effective In any case until confirmed by the Senate AVOOD DROPS RACK In effect this action will demote Gen Leonard Wood from his present rank of Major General to which the Senate has not confirmed him lo the rank of Brig adler which he held prior to August 8th last It also will demote in like manner man-ner 1G7 army odicern who were promoted pro-moted respectively to fill vacancies caused by the promotion of Gen Yood MACRUM IS OUT Among the civil appointments affected affect-ed is that of William Macrum an a collector col-lector of customs at Charleston S P who Is serving under a recess appointment appoint-ment the effect being to vacate his position po-sition As Macrums recess appointment appoint-ment has thus been terminated and the situation In the Senate has been such that his confirmation has been despaired of the t collectorshlp of the port of Charleston will remain vacant until the expiration of the next session unless the President selects omc one else for this place and the nomination Is confirmed con-firmed by the Senate I HAS NO AUTHORITY While no olllcial representation has been made by tiP Senate to the House several Informal I conferences have been I held between the Republican Senators I and Speaker In these the Speaker has slated that the House has no authority i ovor executive appointments or confirmations con-firmations and that if the creation of a 7ecoss were necessary to take rare of these matters the Senate should have j taken official action looking to adjournment adjourn-ment of the special session In the nbsenco of such a movement the Speaker said he could not Interfere Inter-fere in any way with the expiration of the extra session by constitutional Urn iiuUons 4 I NEW NOMINATIONS 1 All of the now nominations including j J army and navy anil civil appointments i made by President Roosevelt during tho extra session and which have noL hein confiimed by I the Senate will have lo h > r > f renewed at the regular session 7t fa i expected that these nominations will bo r J rutransmittcd by the President Monday i next i nextAL At the War department the officials are not quite so clear In their minds as to the rxacL status of the mUhrry officers offi-cers whose nominations have failed of confirmation There is a disposition to take the point of view that between the expiration of the present session and the beginning oC the regular session there will necessarily be an appreciable but small period of time when there Is no session and during which Congress Is technically in recess and that It will be within the power of the President at any lime after Monday noon to make recess appointments to continue during dur-ing the session until otherwise disposed of COMPLEX QUESTIONS The officials are not united yet In their view upon this point but the new nominations nom-inations which are now being made out at the War department to replace those of which relapsed are all to he dated as of the time the vacancy occurred It seems iwsslble I that the complex questions ques-tions Involved may require the decision of tile Attorney General 1 |