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Show OPEN EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. The proposition to consider the President's Presi-dent's nominations in open Senate seems, to be daily gaining ground, and the prospects pros-pects are that before adjournment something some-thing will be done to remove this unpopular un-popular feature of the proceedings in the upper house. The recent discussion upon the Edmunds resolutions developed the fact that numerous Democratic Senators Sen-ators are in favor of t he proposition, among whom may be named Messrs. Voorhees, Beck, Maxey, Butler and Coke, while or the other side of the Chamber Messrs. Harrison, Van Wyck, Piatt, Allison, Dolph, Sherman, Pike, Logan, Frye, Mitchell of Oregon, Riddleberger, Cul-lom, Cul-lom, Hale, Morrill, Teller, Edmunds and Plumb have expressed themselves, some of them most emphatically, as in favor of a change, though all of the gentlemen named are not quite clear that the rule should be made universal. There are now pending in the Senate two resolutions one introduced by Mr. i.Platt, allowing open executive sessions except when the Senate shall deem it I inadvisable, and the other by Mr. Logan, j for open sessions during the considera-j considera-j tion of nominations. It is quite probable j that a vote will be taken this week upon Mr. Piatt's resolution, and judging from the number of Senators who have pro-I pro-I nounced in favor of a change, it is not j unreasonable to expect that it will be j adopted. ' |