Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-12-05
The First Session of the Six
tieth Congress Will
Convene at Noon
Monday.
Greater Interest Attaches To The
Proceedings Of the House Be-
cause a Complete Organization
viii be Necessary. This Includes
The Election Of a Speaker and
llther Officers and the Drawing OF
Seats by the Members.

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Seats by the Members.
4specialwire to the ARausl
Washington, d. c., Nov. 3O.-The
first session Of the Sixt1eth Congress
will convene at noon Monday. The
session has been looked forward to as
.ona likelv to be more than ordinarily
interesting. When Congress meets
inst before Presidential campaign, as
in the present case, the policy OF the
leaders of the majority has always been
to confine the session more to oratory
than to action. But the session about
to begin will prove an exception to the
rule. The demand for currency leg1s-
1ation cannot be ignored. Since the
nresent financial furry began column $
of newspaper space have been devoted
to expressions of opinion from bank
ers. business men, manufacturers,
merchants and others, showing how
pressing these people believe the sub
ject to be.
Other matters of great political and
commercial Importance also demand
attention. Many recommendations
will be contained in the President $
message. Though few of them, OF
course. will be enacted into law at the
present session tie majority Of the sub
iects will at least come up tor discuss
ion. The control of railroads and other
corporations doing an interstate busl-
ness will receive attention, including
proposed amendments to the Sherman
antitrust law.
Other recon mendations will proba-
bly, include graduated inheritance
tax. consideration of a Federal income
tax, the revision of the tariff on i'm
ports from. the Philippines, the passage
of a modified shipping bill, the crea-
ton of postal savings banks, the es-
tablishment of more effective. public
health service than now exists, and
the extension of the parcels post.
The demand for the exclusion of the
Japanese will be another serious prob
lem with which the administration and
Republican leaders in Congress. viii
have to deal. The Pacific coast States
are insistent that Japanese shall be ex.
cluded from American soil, and the
delegation in Congress from those
States will urge legislation. That the
administration is keenly apprehensive
as to the situation is shown by the re-
fusal of the Department of Commerce
of Labor to discuss Japanese immigra-
e
Straus to suppress the publication O.
bulletins showing the volume of Japa-
nese immigration.
Monday will be devoted to the work
of organization, and the President
message will not be presented unit
the following day. Vice President
Fairbanks will call the Senate to order
Monday, while the House will be call
ed to order by the clerk.
In the House greater interest at
taches to the proceedings because 8
complete organization will be necessa-
ry. This includes the election of g
speaker and other officers and the
drawing of seats by the members o1
the House.
The Democrats will hold their eau
Gus in the House of Representatives
this evening. The incipient revolt
against the rule of John Sharp Will
iams, Of Mississippi, as minority
leader in the House has died out, and
it is expected that he will be selected
with little or no opposition.
Among the Republicans it is settled
that Representative Cannon shall sue
ceed himself as Speaker, and he will be
nomina ted in the Republican caucus
for the taaird time, without a voice in
opposition. The old officers of the
House will be reelected, as the com
bine which organized the House sew
eral years ago is still sufficiently CO.
hesive to prevent any of the new mem
bers from undoing the programme the
veterans have mapped out. There is q
contest over the postmastership, as a
vacancy caused by death exists. and