The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-04
JOHN 5. WILLIAMS
 ON CONGRESS
NOT WHAT IT DID BUT WHAT IT
 DIDN'T.
@Refused to Cheek Collection of Vast and Corrupfing Campaign Fundsp "Fafled to Lop on Single
 Tarfm Abuse.o

Washington Special to The World.
 John sharp Williams, Democratic floor leader, thus reviews the work of the Fifty-ninth Congress:
 The only notable things Congress did was to adopt the Democratic pol icy of railroad rate regulation and the Democratic policy of admitting Okla homa into the Union and to refuse to lie in ,indissoluble wedlock Arizona and New Mexico. The Democrats regret that Congress did not do some measure { Of justice to the Filfpinos by passing the Philippine tariff.
 This congress will be almost as much celebrated for what it failed to do as what it did. What 1t did was distinctly Democratic in initiative. ori- gin and character. One of the things Congress failed to enact which will ure to check the collection of vast and corrupting campaign funds. Nothing radical or extreme was demanded, yet Congress refused to keep national banks from contributing to campaign funds; 1t refused to prohibit corporations en- gagged in interstate commerce from Contributing the money of stockh olders 10 campaigns; 1t refused to provide for publicity of contributions. Even that could not get through a Congress the Republican members of which feel that without a fund they could not go through a campaign and realize that the sources of contributions must be kept secret.
 After the president thundered in the index about insurance frauds and wanted Congress to do extreme and un- constitutional things this. failure to do very reasonable and constitutional thing will be hard to explain.
 congress failed to lop off a single abuse or excrescence of the tariff sys- tenn It would not agree that a single duty should be over loo per cent of the entire value of the thing taxed. They would not even untax diphtheria serum nor heed the cry concerning 1t of the little children all over the land. They refused to reduce the duty on iron and steel, although proof was made and finally admission was had that our steel manufacturers are habitually sell ing their products cheaper abroad than at home, even steel for building ships, ahereby building up a foreign merchant marine at the expense of an American merchant marine.
 ..With a big-headedness that Is re- nnarkable Oklahoma was uselessly kept out of the Union for nearly six months, while the children of the Indian Terri tory were growing up in ignorance without schools.
 The congress Is to be congratulated upon the fact that 1t did not follow the lead of the President in the new Roose- welt doctrine that he seems bent upon substituting for the Monroe Doctrine. This was shown in the refusal of the Senate to ratify the Dominican treaty. This refusal threw cold water upon most of the Presidents big stock poli- cies, and the Senate was able to make this refusal effective by Democratic votes
 "Congress passed a very good nat uralization bill after several good amendments offered by the Democrats had been adopted. It refused to pass any immigration bill. and it is rumored that the refusal was due to the petu- fancy of Senator Lodge, who found the times out of joint because the House had amended the bill offered by his