The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-08
Washington correspondence:

new members who had been elected to
fill vacancies. Foul members have died
since the adjournment in June, and
resolutions were adopted and adjourn
ment taken out of respect to their
memory before the regular routine was
begun. The Senate was ready to go
ahead from where it left off five
months ago.
Important issues which are to COM
mand the attention of Congress are the
following:
Inheritance tax on big fortunes.
Regulations of corporations.
Divorce question.
Race question.
Cuban problem.
Japanese question.
Currency reform.
Safeguarding of coal lands.
Philippine tariff bill.
Ship subsidy question.
Campaign contributions.
Postal savings banks and parcel post
Child labor prohibition.
injunction bill.
'oNSihblcn pONueT ldcIOrleS.
There is a strong probability that
river and harbor bill carrying about
SGOOOO,OO0 will go through. The only
obstacle will be possible opposit IN Of
the Senate should the advocates If the
ship subsidy measure i'm that body de-
mand that It stand or fall with the
river and harbor bill
The administration earnestly desires
the enactment of the House bill re-
ducing the tariffs on Philippine sugar,
tobacco and rice to % per cent Of the
Dingley rates, and admitting free all
other Philippine products. The Senate
held the measure up in the last ses-
sion. If the subsidy advocates in the
Senate have their way, they will sup
port the Philippine tariff bill and the
river and harbor measure, which is to
contain provision inaugurating the
proposed deep waterway from the lakes
to the gulf.
The SmoOt case is to- be argued in the
Senate and a vote had if possible.
The Santo Domingo treaty, hanging
fire for two years, will also receive the
attention of the Senator's, together with
the Isle of Pines treaty.
The eight-hour and anti-injunction
measures, the demand for which by or
ganized labor, prompted the American
Federation of Labor's recent excursion
into the political field. will come up
for discussion during the session. The
eight-hour bill has been favorably re-
ported by the House Committee OH
Labor. Speaker Cannons opposition
has prevented it from being placed be-
fore the House. The anti-injunction
measure which President Roosevelt has
promised the labor people he will per-
sonally consider is awaiting action at
the hands of the Judiciary Committee
of the House.
meet the demands OF the bankers and
prevent panicky conditions, owing to
periodical stringency in the money mar
ket will also be discussed.
The measure making more stringent
the regulations governing the admission
of aliens into this country will I'M
doubtedly become a law.
The question of bigger battleships
will be one of the most important ques-
tons to be decided. The Navy Depart
ment has prepared plans for a warship
to surpass the English Dreadnaught,
but the question of embarking upon
such policy was left at the last ses-
sion to be determined at this one.
There promises to be further agita-
ton of Cuban independence.
There may be congressional inves-
tigation of the government printing
Office owing to the bitter personal diff
ferences which appear to have devel-
oped between the public printer and
several thousand employees. incidental
" the matter CO President Roosevelt's
simplified spelling order will come up.
President Roosevelt will send spe-
cial message to Congress relating to the
Panama canal