The Washington times., 1901-12-05
EIGHT HUNDRED
SENATE BILLS.
Unprecedented Introduction
Of Important Measures.
PROPOSED ANARCHY LEGISLATION.
The Presidents Recess Appoint
ments ana the Hay-Pauncefote
Treaty Considered i'll Executive
Session and Referred to Com
mitteeS.

The recommendation laid down in the
message of President Roosevelt to Con
gress on Tuesday were yesterday acted
upon with surprising alacrity by the
members OF the Senate.
No less than eight bills and resolutions
we're presented dealing with the question
of anarchy in its various forms. Various
punishments were suggested and many
methods proposed, but all rested upon
the lines laid down by the President.
Aside from this, other questions were
snapped up.
1t was evident that some midnight oil
had been burned over the message, as one
of the first measures proposed was one
for the construction OF a Pacific cable
Close upon the heels Of this came half
dozen measures dealing with the isthmian
canal Some dozen Senators came to the
fore with legislation dealing upon the De-
partment of Commerce idea advanced by
Mr.. Roosevelt. while at least twenty
measures tending to enforce the Chinese
exclusion law were offered during the
day.
Yesterday was the first business ses-
sion held by the new Senate, and the
bills and resolutions which had been ac-
cumulating during the recess were un-
loaded upon the defenceless clerks There
were at least 500 bills of all sorts intro
ducei during the day. and these covered
every range from private claims TO great
undertakings
feature of the day was the receipt of
the report of the Isthmian Canal Com
mission, followed by the presentation of
the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty The
galleries were well filed during the day.
many ladies being present.
Many Important Measures.
More bills of an important character
were introduced yesterday than have ever
been known within the same space Of
time The assassination of President Nc
Kinley furnished the basis for many of
them, the author of each apparently be-
ing eager to have his name go down in
history as the statesman who had solved
tho-nrobIem of abating the evils of
anarchy
The exclusion of the Chinese formed a
fruitful theme for Senatorial considera
tion, while il is the current belief that
the number OF claim bills and others Of
private character will this session
break all previous records The surpI,,s
IN the Treasury will be speedily ex-
hausted il favorable consideration is Civ
en- to the bills alressS itroduced Judg-
ing from the nIlnDer OF public building
biiis iG{rofgced, there will be but few
es ofany Importance throughout
the country that will be deprived OF at
fala hi nj ipf fFaar haf
accompany consideration OF such public
favor.
Every subject under the sun has been
dealt with in this food of proposed law
making Not only the questions dealt
with by the President in his message, but
all those that have ever come into public
notice by any chance, and hundreds that
nobody but their authors ever dreamed Of
have been brought TO the front by the
introduction Of the Eumberless bills that
the clerks are now sitting up at night to
index The statutes of the United States
would be a most marvellous combination
if Congress should take it into its head
to enact into laws all the propositions
thst have been presented since the bars
were LEI down yesterday.
In addition to this, all the measures
that died in the last Congress have been
resurrected, and rev crop cultivated.
The crsnks have ooJne 10 the front mere
numerOUsly than ever before. reading
Of the titles of the bills that rained upon
the desk OF the Secretary of the Senate
yesterday would indicate that a large por-
tion Of she American people are jokers.
and that their representatives in Wash
ington are willing 10 advertise and apply
their jokes
Immensity of Proposed Legislation.
If these bills should be passed. every
important matter in which the United
States is interested will be regulated by
statute, aud every Lnlmportant one as
well. There will not be paper enough in
the United states TO print the laws upon.
and not enough human beings to execute
them.
As an illustration Of how the minds of
statesmen differ as TO great questions. at
tention is called to the bill of Represent
atiye Wachter of Maryland. that the Gov
ernment shall prohibit any further foot
hall games between the Wesr Point and
Annapolis cadets, and that of Represent
ative Neteah OF California. providing that
there should be an annual competition
game between the soldier and sailor boys
and that all Of them shall take place in
Washington.
II is probable that the first subject to
be seriously discussed, after the isthmian
canal treaty shall have been ratified by
ile aeHE7s he legislation contained in
pi3 'ntrc59cef yesterday by Senator
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