Bill Barlow's Budget

IN
SPECIAL SESSION.
Some of the Matters to Be Considered by
the Fifty-Third Congress.
WASHINGTON, March 6.—The senate
of the Fifty-third congress will
reassemble in special session at noon.
Usually the special sessions are perfunctory
and formal, the business being confined
to the reception of nominations of the
president, beginning with the cabinet
nominations, and winding up with the
places within the gift of the chief executive
which are of the first grade of importance,
such as the heads of principal bureaus of
the government service and the foreign
ministries are filled.
But because of the peculiar condition
of affairs so far as the composition of
the senate itself is concerned, with the
doubtful standing of senators who hold
appointments from the governors of
their states, instead of credentials of
election by their legislatures, and further,
because of the announced intentions of
Senator Stewart of Nevada to precipitate
a silver discussion, by the introduction of
a resolution of inquiry directed to the new
secretary of the treasury, it may be that
this special session may assume a degree
of importance and excite such popular
interest as has never before been witnessed
in such cases.
It is probable that in the early part of
the week the senators on both sides of
the chamber will hold caucuses to determine
upon the lines of party policy, and to decide
what shall be done in respect to the
organization of the committees and of the
numerous force of senatorial employes.
As there is no lack of candidates for the
highly desirable places within the disposition
of the majority of the senate, in both the
committee assignments and the appointments
pertaining to the offices of the secretary of
the senate and the sergeant-at-arms, some
lively contests may be expected.