Arizona republican., 1906-06-25
Some Of the Important Things Accomplished
 at the First Session
Extension ot Federal Control Favored by Both Parties Record Broken for Talking for Printing of Public Documents.


 Washington. June 24.-Important measures extending federal regulation and control have been enacted at the first session of the fifty-ninth con- gress. The railroad rate and meat in spection bills will soon become laws and before adjournment both houses will have passed pure food bills which, though dissimilar in terms, are both based on the same principle of federal control. It is the present intention to try and adjust these differences before adjournment
 There has been no marked division on party lines in effecting the above results. the differences being only as 10 ways and means rather than as to policy.
 Besides branching off into this new field of legislative endeavor. the pres ent session has made itself important in other ways. It has added one, and perhaps two new states to the union and by so doing has disposed of four territories. Great results to the people are expected in the removal tax on de- naturized alcohol and if predictions are fulfilled heat, light and power are to be supplied by alcohol made from the corn fields of the country. from sugar beets and sugar cane, from fruits and other vegetables.
 By a deft turn of legislative points of view, the questions that have per plexed congress for some time regard ing the Panama canal have been set tied. The president may dig a lock canal as fast as he pleases. A joint resolution was agreed to requiring that canal supplies be made of American manufacture.
 Congress has not dealt with the for e!gn situation 10 any extent. An act making the much needed reorganiza- tion of the consular service was pass ed Nothing was done in the Santa Domingo controversy and legislation affecting our colonial possessions was meager and unimportant, although tar tiff revision for the Philippines receiv- ed attention and the approval of the house and an act was passed revising the tariff collected by the Philippine government. A coinage act for the is- lands was also passed.
 But congress talked about her own tariff law. It broke the record for words Thousands and hundreds of thousands more than had been uttered at any other one session were compiled in the congressional-r Not only on the floors of the two houses has the word record been heavy, but the pub scations resulting from committee ses- sions. A large number of bills were in- troduced in the two houses. The cal endar records that the number has reached nearly twenty thousand five hundred-more than were introduced during the entire three sessions of last congress.
 Before discussing the number of acts passed, it is interesting to note that with the strenuous exertions of an ap- propriation committee with the new chairman, Representative Tawney. it has been impossible to hold the ap- propriations down to much less than nine hundred million dollars, although economy was the watchword from the start. One of the most important features of the session has been care full scrutiny with which the demands of the different government depart ments have been received by the house committed. i
 The hearings accorded the govern ment 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 legislation in nearly every bill which 1t is intended will have a beneficial effect here af- ter. First in this class is undoubtedly ! that requiring the heads of all execu- tive departments to apportion the ap- in equal parts to avoid de- ficiencies. This is to be done under penalty The only excuse will be some unforeseen emergency and unless this