The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1904-12-03
SOME BILLS
IN CONGRESS
OLD TIME BILLS ARE
TO COME UP AGAIN
The Lawmakers Are to Consider Some
Measures With Which the Public Is
Very Familiar - There VIII Be a few
Side Issues.

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ment of the necessary appropriation
measures coupled with probable ship SUBJ
sdy legislation in modified form and
the consideration of isthmian canal leg
islation, comprises the present pro-
gramme of the closing session of the
fifty-eighth congress, which will open
at noon today. Unless all signs fail
comparatively little attempt will be made
to accomplish anything else OF import
ance, unless it be the passage of the bill
Of Mr.. Hill of Connecticut to improve
currency conditions or the bill of Mr..
Fowler of New Jersey permitting nat
ional banking associations to make loans
upon real estate.
AS to brand-new legislation, but lit
tie is expected during the short session.
Congress will be kept pretty busy get
ting through its appropriations, and at
tending to routine matters. 1t seems
to be understood that there will be
river and harbor bill and an omnibus
public building bill introduced at this
session. Never before was there great
er demand on the treasury for money for
river and harbor improvements Sand for
new public buildings, and it appears
certain that unless Speaker Cannon and
Chairman Hemmenway, of the house
committee on appropriations, stubbornly
resist the plans members will make to
get in on" the appropriations the two
bills will carry enormous appropriations.
The unfinished business of congress
Sc htr fhnncan1
some of which have been considered by
committees and reported favorably;
some passed by the house and held up
by the senate, and others (the great
majority unconsidered in committee.
The unfinished business in which the
country has manifested greatest interest
may be summarized as follows:
Bill to confer additional powers on the
interstate commerce commission.
The pure food bill.
The Hepburn-Dolliver bill to regu-
late the interstate transportation of in
toxicating liquors. ........
+ The bill for the reform of the con-
sular service.
Legislation for the further restriction
of immigration.
The anti-injunction bill.
The eight hour bill
Senator Fairbanks bill providing for
a three-department government building
| in Washington.
The statehood bill providing for the
admission of the territories of New
Mexico, Arizona. Oklahoma and Indian
Territory as two states. -..
Bill for the protection of the presi-
dent.
Undoubtedly the friends of these
measures will press them forward for
consideration as opportunity offers, and
some of them will probably be made
into law. Evidently there is much pop
ular interest in the pure food bill. The
house passed it last session and it re-;
ceived some consideration in the sem
ate, but in the rush of the last few
weeks it was sidetracked.
| The so-called labor bills-the anti-in-
junction bill and the eight-hour bill
did not get out of committee in the
house last session. Hearings that lasted
for weeks were held, but neither the
Judiciary committee, which has the anti
Injunction bill, nor the committee on
labor, which has the eight-hour bill,
Preached vote on the question of report
ling. ti& ss~.1
/ Among the so-called side issues, there
are several that promise to attract much
lpublic attention. The Crum appoint
ment will probably be removed from the
field. OF serious controversy by the
lchanged attitude of Senator Tillfnan,
lWho announces that he will no longer
stand in the way of Crum's confirnia-s