Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-07-14

ing trade to be carried in American
vessels. The general subject of tariff
revision has been avoided as If it were
loaded with smallpox germs, but now
that the president has secured his
rate bill the word for tariff agitation
may be given at any moment, and when
the president moves congress will fol
low.
The appropriations of the late ses-
sion, amounting to $780, 1S3,301, have
exceeded those for any other year of
peace in our history. Nevertheless the
pinch of economy was felt in many d.
enthusiastically in Washington,
where an appropriation of $3,000,000
for the site of new department build
ing, All essential feature of the plan of
civic improvement, was refused by
Speaker Cannon.
In the matter of industry this con-
gress has never been touched. In the
seven months of the session it has
talked about twenty million words
the equivalent to two hundred good
sized books. The greatest literature OF
all ages-the Bible, the works Of
Shakespeare, Homer, Dante Milton,
oothO, NiStOl I1uSO
Best Books" twice over-could be
carved out of the language embalmed
in this sessions Congressional Rec
ord" 1t surpasses-all the extant clas-
sizes of Greece or Rome in bulk-all
that is needed to make it a great lit
erature is some shuffling of the words.
Nor was the diligence of congress con-
fined to talk. Bills enough were intro.
duced to swamp the statute books of
the world The house received more
in this single session than had ever
been introduced in any entire congress
before. The number of house bills in
tIOduced in the session Just closed was
2O,508; in the last congress. which
was considered unusually Industrious
In this respect, 1900 were introduced
in all the three sessions of the two
year term. In the late session there
were also introdro ed 6,553 senate bills.
$50 house resolutions and 2S2 senate
resolutions. The house received 5,Oy2
reports, and the senate 4,429. There
were 912 house documents and 315 SEN
ate documents. Notwithstanding the
effort to reduce the output of the gov
eminent printing office, more printing
was ordered at this session than ever
before.
The legislation of the Fifty-ninth
congress has gone forth with the in
spection certificate of President Roose-
welt duly stamped on the can. In an
Official statement issued at the time of
adjournment the president said:
In the session that has lust closed
the congress has zone more substantial
work for good than any congress has
done at any session since | became fa.
miliar with public affairs. The Iegis.
lation has been along the lines of real
constructive craftsmanship of the most
practical and efficient type. and bill
after bill has been enacted into law
which was of an Importance so great
that 1t is fair to say that the enactment
OF any one of them alone would have
made the session memorable. y
| would not be afraid to compare IFS
record with that of any previous con.
gress in our history, not alone for the
wisdom but for the disinterested high.
mindedness which has controlled its
actions"
This view prevailed very generally
IN Washington-in fact, it was one of
the Few points in which the sentiment
or congress was in complete accord
with that of the president.
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