Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-02
CONGRESS- WILL AVE oNLl liN ROUTINE MATTERS lo
 ATTEND TO.
Will Be Too Bus, Witt. These 10 Take l'p Any Grc,;s c-ee.,laiiNe
 Schemes.

ward tO he uOll2 D1 &ftdl lllll1> di the coming session nj congress. he has Hau2ht bH disappointment in store for hinL Congress will b. too 5ase Ho tatkle aH> neN and novel scheme of le4isIation + ic gets through with routine business and sucd matters as Were Jeff over from , the lifst= session 34 March without working overtime t will 5e doing verl well iHdeed
 Some aspiring statesmen. no deu41. will persist itl talkin@ tariff, despite ] the 1act agreement thar there shall he no tariff legislation until after the next presidential election; and it js certain Il strenuous effort will be made 10 secSure currency legislation. i but the chances of these efforts be- ] ing very successful are very remote
 eurrenc! Plans.
 The currency commission ot the American Bankers association has q plan framed up for reforming the monetary system and q sub-commlt- i tee has been appointed to draft q l bill for introduction into congress- If congress were only willing not to allow the bankers to do it's legis1at- l ing. everybody would be happy. and the currency would be reformed by Christmas time But congress isn't willing. By some stubborn sort of req soning-oF unreasoning, if you are inclined to think that way-the opn- ion prevails on Capitol Hill that it is the business of congress 10 con- struct and pass the nations laws and there never has been manifested a disposition to farm out the job.
 And so there will be nothing reSel- ential in the attitude of congress to- ward the bankers currency prolecs. IL will be handled without gloves, knocked and kicked and battered out of all sembIanee to it's original shape. The fact that il has the imposing in- dorsement of the cOuntrNs financial brains will carry no more WeighC lr senate and house than if the indorse- ment were that of th eallied hod car rers or amaIgamated grave-'2 '2i%g"rs of the country In fact, the handing of the currency bill is likely t9 be just a little more un2entle because il has the ind0rsemenT of rEa 1t9keIs
 Attempts To Dictate.
 Congress always las resented alc- side attempts to dictate le2iSla ion Witness the fate of the r. ciprvcity treaties, which were nothin& mols or less than legislation bv the e%scl.tjVa and of the repeatedly urged bu- al. ways rejected scheme to have 6 com mission of experts regulate the 5ar- if schdules Senators and represent atves will admit ja private convel- sation that the expert commission plan would be happy solution oi the tariff problem, but you couldnt get one of them tC vote 10 give sucl commission the necessary A4th2r. itN.
 Thes will tell vou that th4 consti
 tuition by providing that 2on8rea shall have contr0l of the avenues stands in the way, but that k mere ly a happy s9btertuge The 'rad is that the legislative branch os in government is jealous cf encroach ing executive power. and for tLe neX decade or two the tendency is % iug to be t. eurtaA rather nan 9x tend the authority of the co-orcI;aat branch of the government.
 The fa%r that congress this winte will uot be able to io much n41r than pass appropriation bills aa@ at tend to other matters 0 fuece 5sar routine probably vii revive as5!ts:o routine probably wilt revive agitatio less authority than Speaker Canno k ntecord as having sail tha th time is not far distant whe1 con@res will have to sit the year round S :; tremendous has been the -roWth the nation. with eorrearor ltr work of congress, that uot Htuch ,il '- is left for the serious cosa.de1azta c; new legislation In th eeaHs ; the fathers, practically every bi vas debated and reshaped in ope session. Today. on most things bo houses accept the reports eff commi y tees almost Weaoa question: q they refused to ao so congress won . never set through tts work. This h. : served for q time but at best it ii on'l a maheshifr Not much addto :, q tsi.ef eua be looked for in this { :, reeaon, aecause fae committees no
 have all Ehey can do The time 2, close G Lana @aau aaua oth
 ~ea@a.e=o ee}.t mus ae devised, al
 9a- session ts the only thing