Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-04
WILL BE BUSY SESSION..
If the Several Coneressmen Push
 Their Pet keasures.

Washington. Dec 4.-This will be the busiest short session of congress which has convened for many years all of the subjects are taken up that members are discussing. Most of them are very important and follows as certainty. that some of them will be postponed at least until i future sessions.
 One issue that was raised in the recent congressional campaign prob ably will be given consideration, al- though 1t may not be disposed of finally. The labor question, present. ed by President Gompers of the American Federation and other lead- CTS of organized labor, is likely to be brought to the front early in the session. A. disposition is manifest among the leaders of congress, es- pecially among the house leaders, to meet the question squarely and fight I it out on It's merits.
 l For several years measures have been pending in both branches of congress which the leaders of organ ized labor have been anxious to have enacted into law. The contest of labor has envolved around the anti injunction b'll and the eight hour bill. These measures are now pend- ing before house committees and, in some form, very likely will reach the house in this session. The set- clement of the committees seems to be. so far as can be ascertained at this time, to>report the bills adverse lv. It is known that members of the house who were fought by Presi- dent Gompers and his followers in the late camDaign will do all in their power to defeat the bills. They re- gard their success before the people as an endorsement of their attitude toward the measures and they will fight them 'n the house to the end. 1 One member of the house--a prominent member of the committee which Is considering the anti-'n- jlinction measure-deelares that the bill can never pass the house.
 Tt is fundamentally wrong." said he. "is denial of constitutional rights, Tn the preservation of which labor as we'll as capital ought to be equally interested, and its crystaliza- tion into law would he calamity. I do not believe the congress or the American peonla, whom congress rep- reseDts, wnnnld stand for such law. The question has been under consid- eration for many years. in one form or another. and the time has come f<s dfcrn nf fnv H4 + al tion has been discussed thoroughly. The time has come for a vote on it and nv belief is that that vote will he taken this winter"
 Sneaker. Cannon. who IS known to he opposed to the anti-iniunction measure. will present no ohiertious. 1t is understood, to consideration of the bill bv the house. Heretofore, he has stoood in the way of report ing it from the committee. His change of attitude is taken to mean that the house will vote down the measure, if it ever should be brought to vote
 President Roosevelt, while friend- lv to sone of the pronositions nut forward bv labor, hos ind'cated that he reeards with disfavor the anti injunction bill. He frankly told hoav of ranresentatives of organized lohor that he could not endorse their views on that measure. He has stood with Sneaker Common in the matter. althoneh he has not been so strenuous in his exposition as the speater
 Should the question he raised at the present sassion-and- that now annears very like'v--it is onite cer- tain that there will he no ouihhlirg ahouf 1t. The issua will he handled in the onen and will he brought to a final deta'Jnination without un- necessary delay.