Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-25
5eth CONGRESS.
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measures extending federal regui aTlons
and control have been enacted at the
first session of the 59th Congress 10"
rapidly drawing to a close. ne -,
road rate and the meat inspection Ills
will soon become laws and before ad-
journment of Congress poth hou
will have nassed pure food bills, wh len
though dissimilar in terms are u 'lii
based on the same principle OF coiu u.
II is the present intention to try -nd
adjust these differences before :ho-
journment.
There has been no marked divlsl on
on party lines in effecting the d DO &c
results. the differences being only as
70 vays and means rather than as 10
policy.
Resides branching off into this II aw
field of legislative endeavor, the pre- Vs.
ent session of Congress has made 4
self important in other ways 1t as
added one, and perhaps two new stat IS
to the union and by so doing has dis
posed of four territories.
Great results to the people are ex-'
pected from the removal of the tax
on denatured alcohol. If predictions
are fulfilled heat, light and power are
to be supplied by alcohol made from
the cornfields of the country, from
sugar beets and sugar cane, from
fruits and other vegetation.
BY a different turn of legislative
points Of view, the questions which
have perplexed Congress for sometime
regarding the Panama canal have been
settled. The President may dig lock
| f1c 10 y
resolution was agreed to requiring
canal supplies to be made Of American
manufacture.
| Congress has not dealt with the for
eign situation to any great extent. An
act making a much needed reorganlza-
ton of the consular service was pass
ed. Nothing was done in the Santo
| Domingo controversy and the constitu-
ton after our colonial possessions was
meagre and unimportant, though tariff
REVISION for the Philippines received
the attention and approval of the
| House, and an act was passed revising
the tariff collected by the Philippine
government. A coinage act for the
island also was passed.
| But Congress about our own tariff
law. 1t broke the record for words.
Not only on the floors of the houses
has the word record been heavy, but
the publications resulting from COM
mittee Investigations of subjects are
larger and more numerous than at any
previous session. A large number OF
bills were introduced in the two
houses. The calendar records that the
number has reached nearly 20,500;
! more than were introduced III the en-
tire three sessions of the last Con-
gress.
1t is interesting to note that will
| all the strenuous exertions Of an ap
Ipropria tons committee in the Hous'
:, with Il new acknowledgements
J | Tawney, and it has been impossible t.
hold the appropriations down to mucl
less than 100000 000 although "econo
| my" was the Watchword from tn
| start.
: One of the important features Of tn
! | session has been the careful scrutin
. with which the demands of the differ
ent government departments have bee
received by the House appropriation
: committee. The hearings accorded t
! government officials asking for none
10 run their departments and bureau
have been more exhaustive than eve
before. The result has been the enact
i ment of restraining legislation on near
" every appropriation bill which it
intended will have a beneficial effec
a hereafter.
First in this class is undoubtedly tina
recurring the heads of all executive dc
= partments to appOrtinn the approrrla
. tions they receive into equal parts I
. | avoid deficiencies. This is to he don
under penalty. The amendments &c
, | the present session make it impoSSlh
~ to evade complying with the apportiol
. ment requirement. Another require