Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-08-02
FROM WASHINGTON.


thor think coming To him, and
has announced that he will call
extra session of the Congress to
.,oot here on November IL next.
the purpose Of enacting some
,,.l,tion anent the Panama Canal,
I.oad rate and rebate legislation.
.;rrocitv. tariff revision and a
Co other legislative chores Prob
IN, he would like to hire the
,on,bers of the Congress out to
aoot ar chop wood when they are
-, busv ON this little dab of legis-
80 work which he thinks they
N nerform in the three weeks
hof,re the regular session begins
- tho first Monday in December
t,llowinc. As | have often re-
marked previously the strenuous
President does some things which
.re intensely amusing. He has cut
or, enough work for the Congress
,ooccupv it steadily for the next
twelve months. vet he says he
wants them to get very busy and
oet through with what he wants
before the regular session begins.
III the prerogative of the Presi-
don't 10 call an extraordinary ses-
sion Of the Congress whenever, IN
his Judgment. the exigencies or
the necessities of the country de-
mand il. but he can only send In n
message to the Congress telling it
what. in his opinion, is the state of
the Union demanding the legisla-
ton he asks or suggests. but Inc
can't make them enact 1t. You
can take horse to water, but you
can make him drink.
1t is probable that the House of
representatives will get down to
business at once on whatever the
President asks them to, for the
House i longer a dehberative
body. but is run by 4 few men.
When they crack the whip the
majority Jumps. 1t is altogether
different with the Senate. 1t is
lust like il Ia take a notion that
there is something else Of far more
Importance than the things the
President asks. that should have
its attention and they are likely to
take up the whole of the extra
session discussing il. The Senate
cares about as much about what
the President thinks on some sub
jectS, as a COW chewing her cud
thinks of the Nebular Hypothesis
or the Symmes Hole theory.
There may be some legislation
anent the Panama Canal early in
the session, the regular session,
but when it comes TO railroad leg
isIation and the proposition to
place all the railroads rates in the
hands of five senile bankrupt poll
ilclanS who constitute the Inter
state Commerce Commission, there
Is going to be some blood and hair
and the ground tore up" around
the Capitol Building. The House
may get quick action and do what
ever Teddy wants done i'm the way
of rebate and rate legislation, but
when the House bill reaches the
Senate the fun will commence.
After few rounds the House bill
Will look like the last rose of sum-
mer INT with a brick. If there is
To be any legislation whatever on
tins subject in the next session of
Congress, it will be the bill pre-
pared by the Senate Committee
that sat here this summer and took
testimony, and that bill is not 90
ING to hurt any body in the rail
road business very hard, and is not
gong to give to the Interstate
commerce Commission any greater
power than it now possesses. just
put that prediction in your pipe
and smoke it.
Many of the old Jokes about
he Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
oelng rough and making you sea,
SICK and about the fellow who said
he wanted to go to New York the
worst way, and was advised tc
Jake the B. & o., will have to be
S'uetracked, " said one of the big
geSt railroad men in the country t.
NE the other day. They are now
putting in a piece of track between
mere and Baltimore" continued he
lllat Will straighten the alignment
enmnate the curves place the
roadway well above high water
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