The Red Cloud chief., 1906-06-29
WORK or CONGRESS
REVIEW OF WORK ACCOMPLISH
ED BY SENATE AND HOUSE.
important Measures Extending Fed
ersI Regulation and Control Enact
ed-Appropriations Held Down "a
$500, ooo, 00o-CanaI Legislation.

Washington, June 25.-Importani
measures extending federal regula
ton and control have been enacted al
the frat session OF the fifty.nlnth o
gress, now rapidly drawing to a close
The railroad rate and the meat in
spection bills will soon become laws
and before adjournment OF congress
both houses will have passed pure
food bills, which, though dissimilar in
terms, are both based on the same
principle of federal control. 1t Is the
present intention to try and adjust
these differences before adjournment
Besides branching of into this new
field of legislative endeavor, the pres.
ent session OF congress has made
itself Important in other ways. 1t has
added one and perhaps two new states
to the union, and by SO doing has dis
posed of four territories.
Great results to the people are ex
pected from the removal Of the tan
on denatured alcohol, and II predic.
lions are fulfilled, light and power are
to be supplied by. alcohol made from
the cornfelds of the country, from
sugar beets and sugar cane. from
fruits and other vegetation.
BY a def turn of legislative points
of view, the questions which have per
picked congress for some time regard,
ing the Panama canal have been set.
tied. The president may dig q lock
canal as fast as he pleases. A joint
resolution was agreed to requiring
canal supplies to be American made
Congress has not dwelt with the
foreign situation to any extent. An
act mailing a ~much-needed reorganiza'
ton OF the consular service was
passed. Nothing was done In the
Santo Domingo controversy and the
legislation affecting our colonial pos.
sessions wal meager and u~nimportant,
although tarin revision for the Phil
ippines received the attention and ap.
proval OF the house, and an act was
passed revising the tariff collected by
the Philippine government. A coinage
act for the islands also was passed.
Tariff Talk Breaks Record.
But congress talked about our own
tariff law. 1t broke the record for
words. Thousands and hundreds OF
thousands more than have been ut.
tered at any other one session OF con.
gress were compiled in the congress.
sional records. Not only on the floors
of the two houses has the word record
been heavy, but the publications re-
sulting from committee Investigations
OF subjects are larger and more nu.
merous than at any previous session.
A large number Of bills were intro
duced in the two houses. The cal.
endar records show that the number
has reached nearly 20, 500-more than
were introduced during the entire
three sessions of the last congress.
Before discussing the number OF
acts passed 1t Is interesting to note
that all the strenuous eXertions OF an
appropriations committee in the house
with a new chairman-Representative
Tawney-it has been impossible to
hold the appropriations down to much
less than 5000. 900 900, although econ
omy was the watchword from the start
Organized labor has succeeded In
its requests of the present session oil
congress to the extent Of securing
the enactment Of what is known as
the Employers Liability Bill" This
enactment will make it possible for ar
employe to ecure damages for his
injury Notwithstanding his own negli
gence Another demand which will
doubtless become a law before the enc
of the session is that limiting thu
hours OF continuous service OF railwa,
trainmen to sixteen c%onsecutiv,
hours work, to be followed by tel
hours rest. The much-agitated eight
hour day bill received a favorable
vote from the labor committee OF tn,
house, but too late to secure action a
the hands OF congress.
One of the novel features of tn,
law-making was the enactment of
measure to preserve the scenic beaut
of Niagara falls.
Enthusiasts for the ~"greates
navy" regarded the legislation Of tn
session as inimical to the prope
growth of that arm Of the ightin
force. The record shows that col
gress authorized the construction c
the biggest battleship ahoat," wit
the provision that the plans of tn
ship must be submitted to congress a
its next session.
Senator Hale expresses confdenc
In the final adjournment OF congress
before the close of the present weel
The only two appropriation bill
which have not passed the senate al