The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-25
RECORD Of THE PRESENT
SESSION OF CONGRESS
Many Important Measures Are
Passed and Others Expect
ed to Go Through.
Heads of Departments VIII Hereafter
Be Compelled to Obey the
Letter of the Law.

Washington, June 24-Important meas
Ures extending federal regulation and
control have been enacted at the first
session Of the Fifty-ninth congress. The
railroad rate and the meat inspection bills
viii soon become laws and before adjourn
ment both houses will have passed pure
food bills which. though dissimilar in
terms, are both based on the same prin-
clple Of federal control. II is the pres
ent intention TO try and adjust these DIFF
ferences before adjournment.
There has been no marked division on
party lines in effecting the above results.
the differences being only as to ways and
means rather than as to policy.
New Star in the Flag.
Besides branching off into this new
field Of legislative endeavors the present
session has made itself important in 9TH
or ways. It has added one, and perhaps
two CIV states TO the union and by so
doing has disposed Of four territories.
Great results to the people are expected
from the removal OF tax on denatured al
COhOl and if predictions are fulfilled, heat,
light and power are to be supplied by al
cOhol made from the cornfieldS Of the
country, from sugar beets and sugar cane,
from fruits and other vegetation
BY deft turn of legislative points OF
view, the questions that have Perplexed
congress for some time regarding the
Panama canal have been settled
President Can Dig Canal.
The president may dig lock canal as
fast he pieaSes. A joint resolution
was agreed to requiring canal supplies
to he made of American manufactures
congress has not dWeIt with the foreign
situation to any extent. An act making
2 much needed reorganization OF the con-
Sular service was passed. Nothing was
done in the Santo Domingo controversy
and the legislation affecting our colonial
possessions was meager and unimpOrtant,
although tariff revision for the Philip
pines received the attention and approval
OF the house and an act was passed re-
vising the tariff collected by the Philip
pine government A coinage act for the
islands also was passed
Talks on the Tariff.
But congress talked about our own tar
fff law. Tt broke the record for words.
Thousands and hundreds Of thousands
more than have been uttered at any other
one session were compiled in the Con-
gressional Record. Not only on the floors
or the two houses has the word record
been heavy but the publications from
committee sessions Of subjects are larger
and more numerous than at any previous
session A large NUMBER OF Oils were
introduced in the two houses. The cal
endar records that the number has
reached nearly 20O00. 800 more than were
introduced during the entire three ses-
siOns OF the last congress
Before discussing the number of acts
passed. it is interesting to note that with
all the strenuous cXeTtiOnS Of an apprO-
priatiOn committee in the house with
new chairma Representative Tawney. il
has been impossible to hold the apprO-
priations down.
Hearings During the Session.
One OF the important features Of the
session has been the careful scrutiny with
which the demands Of the different gov
eminent departments has been received
by the house appropriations committee.
The hearings accorded to government
officials asking for money to run their
departments and bureaus have been more
exhaustive than ever before. The result
has been the enactment Of restraining leg
islatiOn on nearly every appropriation
bin which il is intended will have a ben
efiCial effect hereafter
IN this class is undoubtedly that re-
curing the heads OF all executive depart
ments to appOrtion the appropriations
they receive N equal parts 10 avoid de
ficiencfes- Tbs is TO be done under pen
atty. The only excuse viii be some IN
foreSeen emergency and unless this can
be shown the head Of a department ask
ing for deficiency appropriation shall
he sUmmaTily removed and laws himself
liable In the future to fine and even i'm
srisoHment.
Restrictions on Clerks.
Another matter Of economy is the tax
ing away from the clerk the right 70 Sc
cure a transfer to another department. at
a higher salary until he has served three
years III lHe pOSillOn ne wishes 10 ah9D-
don. The prompt turning into the treas
ury Of all moneys collected by heads of
departments government revenues is !
another safeguard agaiTst extravaganza
ii was found that during the past year
one department haG collected revenue ia
the amount Of $4,000 and dishursed il
without authority Of law.
A strict accounting is hereafter To he
received from all United States court
clerks A revelation that one such clerk
had received emoluments amounting TO
$3.50 in one day brought about this pro-
Raid on the Treasury.
Although there has been an effort IN
prevent the enlargement OF what is known
3 the permanent annual appropriations !
This character Of expense has fDcres sed
during the session 10 the extent of nearly
100000 making a total permanent annual
2 pproDriati1n OF more than SI40O00OOO
Measures were introduced in which action
viii be pressed at the next session to re
peal q portion OF the permanent annual
appropriations Of the government.
'Crea nized labor has succeeded in its re-
Guest of the present session Of congress to
the extent OF securing the enactment of
what is known rs the employers liability
fiIl.'F This enactment Will ma Ike il poss-
ible for an employe TO secure damages for
lis injury. Notwithstanding his own neg
ligence may have been in part responsible
for that injury
Hours of Work Limited.
Another bin that doubtless viii become
s-law is that limiting the hours OF con-
sinuous service of railway trainmen TO
ti.feen consecutive hours work. TO be fol-
owed by ten hours Of rest The much