| Show A SPECIAL SESSION auli only working days ifft in ahe alfo 0 the fifty eighth congress mr Roosevel ts hope of vate leg Islat lon seems to have gone glimmer a ing even if tho hepburn rate bill could be ao amended that all the suspected jokers would be eliminated it h more than doubtful if any action could be obtained from the senate the senate committee la making little it any progress on a rate bill of its own the swayne impeachment must be tried and by the time it Is disposed of and the appropriation bills are passed there will be precious few hours left to consider so important a measure as one for the regulation of railway rates while the fifty eighth congress Is doing its best to help the presidents measure die of inanition popular support grows stronger state legislatures arc In dorsing his recommendation for rate regulation democratic mississippi Is no less insistent than republican nebraska and michigan should the president convene the fifty ninth congress in special session as soon as convenient after march 4 there can be little doubt that it would enact such tariff and railway legislation as ho demanded discussion of these questions during the last month shows a constantly augmenting body of pub kllc sentiment in support of tho president in a regular session they can secrete themselves behind the appropriation bills in a special session they would have to fight the president in the kopea few of them have the courage tor that |
