Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-11-27

receive the attention of the short ses-
sion if time permits.
Special to the Herald.
Washington, Nov. 27.-One week
hence the final session of the Fifty
ninth congress will be doing business.
and many of the members of both
branches are already gathered in
Washington in anticipation of the
opening. AS general thing the short
session is neither a busy nor an i'm
portant one. but the prevailing opin-
ion among the legislators is that the
approaching session will brush aside
precedent and establish a record for
the dispatch of important business.
The president is expected to make a
number of new recommendations in
his message, which, with the large
amount of leftover business and the
appropriation bills, will certainly keep
both the house and the senate ION the
jump" to clear the decks before the
congress expires on the 4th of next
March.
The Republicans feel that the
strength of the administration has
been increased by the November cleo
lions. which means that the president
will push ahead determinedly with
the development of his executive and
legislative program. If the presidents
wishes are needed congress will keep
'itssiIaRas a - s4s'a,itsiation and
leave Thy administration free to go
ahead with its present plans for the
pacification of the island 1t is not
thought that the coming session will
tackle the subject of corporations,
though this is one of the leaders" in
the presidents program. Many of the
party leaders believe it wiser to let
such an important subject as the pres
fdent's demand for a Federal license
law for all corporations doing an in
terstate business go over TO the Six
tieth congress, which will have more
time to give to the subject. Though
nothing authoritatively is to be learned
in regard to the matter, it is rumored
that the president has been won over
by his advisers and will consent to
withhold his anti-corporation program
for year.
If the leftover business is disposed
of and the appropriation bills passed,
the short session will have a good
record for industry. The senate will
have more work than the house. 1t
has before it some important treaties.
and it will have to decide what shall
be the final disposition Of some i'm
Dortant legislation which went through
the house at the last session and was
temporarily pigeon-holed in senate
committees.
The Santo Domingo treaty, which
has been pending for year and
half, the treaty ceding the Isle Of Pines
TO Cuba, which is strongly opposed by
Senator Morgan, and the Morocco
treaty are to come before the senate.
The further restriction of immigra-
ton is one Of the first questions of
country wide interest that will be ia.
ken up. Adjournment last June left
the bill pending because the two
branches were unable TO agree on
some of its provisions The head tax
and the educational test are the two
points I'm dispute. II was said at the
time that the majority feared to take
final action because of the effect It
might have on the coming elections.
Now that the elections are over there
appears to be no good reason why an
agreement should not be reached and
the measure put through with little
difficulty.
The Smoot case Is bound TO bob up
again and some action will probably
be taken to take his seat away from
the Mormon senator. The chances
are, however, that the case will 20
over on some pretext or another, as IT
has already dragged along for four
years, and that the senator from Utah
win eventually fill out his term.
Two election reform measures are
One provides for publicity
in campaign affairs, the other prohibits
corporation contributions for campaign
purposes. Neither bill made much
Roadway during the last session, and