The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-13
AVOIDING FIGHTS
AVOIDING FIGHTS LEADERS HOPE TO CLOSE SESSION WITH-
 OUT CONTEST.
Important Bills Dead-Pure Food Meas ure Meeting Many Obstrucffons and Immigration Legislation
 fs Uncertain.
HOW INFORMANT MEASURES STAND


 Immigration bill--Passed Senate. hangs fire in house.
 Rate biIl-Passed both houses. in conference for agreement
 Pure bill Food bill-Passed Senate.
 hangs fire in House.
 Panama Canal egislation-Pending
 before Senate.
 Political Publicity bili-Dead for
 Philippine tarin-Dead for this ses
 Dominican treaty--Dead for this ses- sion.
 National Quarantine bill-About to become law.
 Meat Inspection biIl-will be pass ed.
 EmpIoyers' Liability bill-Passed both houses; in conference.
 Eight hour and Anti-Injunction bills
 Dead for this session.
 Washington special to New York Her.
 aid.
 Congress is rapidly nearing the close
 of the session with determination by the Republican managers to prevent any fights that will cause trouble be- fore the fall elections. Democrats stand ready to wreck these plans If possible.
 With less than three weeks remain ing half dozen important measures are yet to be finally passed. Although | the way for some of them is well mark ed out the future for others Is un- | certain.
 The Pure Food bill Is a measure which carries dynamite. Pure food l legislation has been tossed from one side of the Capitol to the other for years. The House has repeatedly I L killed by the Senate. Now the Senate | has passed one and its friends have | declared Speaker Cannon is trying to Ikill it--an imputation which the Speak
 CT indignantly. denies.
 | Proprietary medicine corporations. which under the operation of the bill | as now drawn wjrld be obliged to print on their label the constituent | parts of their preparation. have main tained a strong lobby in Washington Aside from this lobby the pure food measure has enemies in Representatives who decry the further extension Of fed eral police power over domestic af- fairs of the people. Speaker Cannon declares the Pure Food bill may have its day in the House If the members desire to vote on it. It Is privileged measure and has the right of way when an appropriation bill Is not pend ing. Clash With Immigration. It is the purpose of supporters Of | the immigration bill, another privileged | measure, to contest consideration with
 the Pure Food bill as soon as the Sum dry Civil Appropriation bill is passed this week. The immigration bills SUD- porters think they can win. This
 makes 1t look as if the Pure Food bill will be forced into a corner, at least
 until the Immigration bill is finished, and ft~-may possibly have to wait until after the passage of the General De- ficiency bill the last appropriation measure of the session. Such i'll luck will throw the pure food measure into the dog days of the session. with all members anxious to get away. Few measures have aroused more antagonism this session than the leg | islation which the majority of the House Committee on Immigration de- sires to enact. The Dillingham; immi grafton bill, as amended by Senator Lodge, passed the Senate, but the House committee reported in its stead the more radical Gardner bill. Mir. Gard ner was pressing for consideration of his bill when employers of unskilled labor, many foreign societies in va hious American cities and steamship companies began to exert their influ-
 ence against its rigid educational test provision.
 Despite a great republican and dem ocratic pretence in favor of legisla- tion for publicity of election expendi- lures. nothing has been done, nor will
 anything be done unless the present
 outlook changes The Senate passed
 a bill forbidding contributions by cor porations. A House committee report
 ed a publicity bill. It is evident the leaders of both side desire to play the fall campaign under the old rules. Except for the employers liability
 bill, which has passed the Senate and
 House, labor legislation Is without hope.
 Meat Bill Will Pass. meat inspection bill, demanded by
 President Roosevelt to correct the evils discovered in the Chicago stock yards. will be passed within a week. It will be a modification of the Bever- idge meat inspection amendment to the agriculture bill and will make the in- spections label a guarantee of sanitary
 conditions in the packing houses as wei as of pathological purity of the meat. The House must send the rate bill back to conference before any further steps toward settlement of disagree ments upon this measure can be taken. | Speaker Cannon is anxious to get the bill into the hands of the conferees without debate. but how this is to be l done has not been determined There are still some rate bill feat | ures likely to give trouble, especially that making sleeping car companies common carriers The Senate Is de- termined the Pullman company shall
 not escape, while the House leaders seem anxious to protect the sleeping car monopoly.
 The Senate has set Tuesday as the date for a vote on the conference re- mort on the Statehood bill. Senator Foraker believes he has enough votes
 to reject the double Statehood confer ence agreement.
 Differences between the two houses
 on the national quarantine bill which has been in conference for several | weeks. have been adjusted in a way
 that gives the marine hospital service