Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-01-11
BUSINESS SESSION COMING
Republicans Will Make Record En-
tirely Satisfactory to the
American People.

Some of the Washington gossipers-
democrat, republican and monde
script-are intimating that congress
will shirk work this winter, will ad-
journ early in the spring, and will put
off to the next session, or let die a
quiet death the principal measures
which the president has recommended.
This talk may excite some of the dem
ocratic papers, but it is not likely to
impress the country. One of the meas
uIes urged in the presidents message,
the Panama emergency appropriation,
has passed both chambers already. and
the differences between the two houses
in matters of detail are likely to be ar
ranged quickly and the bill sent to the
president. The measure Is not in pre-
cisely the shape urged by the president
and recommended by the canal com
mission, but it will serve the purpose
adequately, and will please the presi-
dent and the people.
There is not the slightest reason to
suppose says the ST. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat, there will be any hitch in CON
gress on the railway rate bill. Mem
bers in each branch are giving a good
deal of thought to that subject 1t is
too big a question to be disposed of off
hand. The senate will debate it eX-
haustively, but it will pass a bill that
will be satisfactory to the country
There can be no reasonable doubt on
this point. Some opposition will be
made by Mr.. Foraker and a few other
republicans in the upper chamber to
the sort of rate regulation which the
president, Speaker Cannon and the
leaders of the house and senate favor,
but in the end that kind of a bill will
pass. The concessions which Senator
Elkins is reported to have made to the
popular view on this subject are signifi-
cant. The senator is the head of the
committee of his chamber which has
charge of this subject. Report had it
a few months ago that he was hostile
to the principle of the bill which went
through the house in the last congress
b. a large majority. His recent atti-
tude, however, shows that he will be
in line with the majority of his party
on this policy A regulation bill which
will strengthen the Republican party
will pass congress and be signed by the
president before this session closes.
A congress viii be elected in 1906
The conventions for the nomination of
its candidates will begin to be held
about the time that this session closes
Naturally, all of the present members
will want denomination and reeIec
ton. This will spur them to make
record in the present session which will
be acceptable to the country. The Re.
publican leaders know the necessity for
carrying the elections in the coming
canvass. This will furnish them with
an incentive, if any were needed. to do
the work which the people want to
have done. The congressional election
in the middle of the presidential term
is always risky affair for the party
in power in the White House. That
party always loses seats in that mid
presidential term congre ssional elec-
ton. Often-as in Clevelaud's case in
1894 and in Harrison's in 1S9g-tne
presidents party loses the election. and
he finds himself confronted with
hostile congress during the second
half of his term. This has taken
place often in the past half a century.
The Republicans have had rare good
fortune in recent times in this respect.
They have carried congress in every
election since 1894, beginning with
that year. They cannot retain their
supremacy unless they deserve il.
This truth is known to every Repub-
lican in public office. from the presi-
dent down. 1t is altogether safe to
predict that congress, which is the
Republican party, will MAKE a record
in this session which will be entirely
satisfactory to the American people.