Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-05
from our Special Correspondent.

Connecticut members on hand ana raedy for business. As was expected, however, the day was simply spent in handshaking and comparing notes of the recent campaign. Everywhere were little groups of members telting stories. consoling or congratul ating each other To say that the Repuftl7 cans appear elated is putting it mildly, They feel that they have won grand victory, and propose to be happy II conseduence.
 Most Of the members of the Connec- ticut delegation came in Saturday. Senator Hawtey has of course been here for some little time and is at house on \ Street. His health remains about the same. and he is seldom seen by any one outside of his family Ii is not probable that he will be able to attend any of the meetings of the Sen ate this session. and upon senator PIatt will deyolve the duty of repre- senting the whole State, as he did last session. in the upper house. Senator and Mrs PIatt are at the Arlington. where they have staid for so many years The senator looks hale and hearty and is ready for a hard winter. It is probable that he will have more
 
 it looks as though he would be made chairman of the committee on the Ju. diciary, in place of the late Senator EIoar Senator PIatt can certainly have the place, if he desires it, and he does not need to make push for 1t eifbey The steering committee of the senate will meet in few days and the necessary committee assignments will probably be made before the holidays.
 In the house there will be no changes So far as the Connecticut delegation is concerned, and all the members will remain on their present committees. As fIlnstrating how steady the Connccti- cut snenbefs of congress are, can be stated flsat they all went back to their former places Of residence in Washing ton. AIr Henry is af his old place on K Street. NIr Sperry is at the Bueking ham, MT Hill and MT Brandegree at the Cochran and Mir LilIey at KIg house on 18th Street.
 Tn conversation all the Connecticut members expressed themselves as pieased to be back in the harness once more All agree that this will be a very busy session, and they are ready to look out for Connecticut. A lot of legis- Iatious will have to be crowded into the next three months, and some of the members will get left, if they do not keep .pushing all the time Already tlleFe is talk that this is going to be as session of economy The cl'y IS shat we are spending more than we get Hence there is to be no general river ana barbor bill and no public building hill. Still. the commffte on rivers ana harbors of the house has been at work for some tlme, and they expect to pre- sent a bill early in the session. It is nrobabie. however. that only the most necessary work will be included in this bill, and certainty nothing approved ivy the government engineers will be all lowed to go in. Thus Connecticut may have to be satisfied with appropriations for New Haven and Bridgeport, with small sums for the Connecticut river and one or two other places.
 The only public building Connecticut has a chance to get is the one for New Britain Congressman Henry has been promised that if there is q publls build+ ing bill, this building is to be included. The committee has had no meeting as yet. and nothing is known as to the in- fention of the members.
 Wherever a few members of congress congrgate there you hear tariff feyl- sion discussed, and there are as many minds as there are men. Nothing deti- nitp has been decided as yet, and all are waiting for the President to act. It is understood. however, that he will confer with the leaders of both houses before taking any action as to an extra session. As a matter of fact # is not seriously believed that there WilIlDe an extra session. The members certainly do not want it, for it would prolong the session until July, as it did when the Dingley bill was passed. Many also think that it would be bad policy and harmful to business to open ID the subject of tariff revision. This is especially true of the members from New England, who are strong protec- tionists. If they could change q few schedules, without, fear of disturbing present business conditions. they youIdgbe perfectly willing to do so but as one New England senator said. that is tie ruE,." However, there twili be considerable discussion on this whole subject from now on and something n1dy be determined upon that will meet with the approval of q majority of tho Republicans in Congress.
 Tn the meantime the appropriation hills will be prepa9d and passed as soon as possible, and this will he enough to kep the members busy most Of the tine.
 Washington, Dec Representative Cockran of New York to-day intro duced bill providing for the appoint ing of q special commission to enquire into and ascertain the amount of money expended by both parties at all elections for presidential electors from 1909 to 1904. He also introduced a bill for the filing of statements of money expended and made it q felony punishable by a term of three years for failure to do so.
 Washington, Dec The senate met promptly at noon to-day for it's final session The floral decorations were unusually beautiful. At the roll call
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