The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-05-28
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WASHINGTON LETTER.

anXlOuSly scanned Dy CnOSe VINO
will have to defend the Congress
against partisan attacks in the
coming campaign, and the most
cursory examination reveals an
amount of Legislation far in ex-
cess of popular supposition and
including many laws calculated
to reflect the utmost credit on the
Republican party. Many impor-
tant measures have failed, it is
true, and to the cursory observer
it might seem that those most
needed have failed of enactment,
but reflection will demonstrate
that it is the measures which en-
counter opposition and excite
controversy which are most in
the public mind, as they are most
prominent in the public prints,
while the numerous wise and
carefully framed laws which the
Republican majorities have en-
acted without much publicity
may prove of even more import
ance to the country than certain
mooted questions.
During the past week tn e
House has made a desperate eff
fort to agree upon some form of
anti-injunction legislation which
would be satisfactory to a ma
jority of the members and at the
same time satisfy the demands
of the labor leaders, but without
success. Two long conferences
of the Republican members were
held and the whole subject care
fully considered, but it was found
that nothing which the legal au-
thOrities in the party could sane
ton would satisfy the demands
of labor, as voiced by the. lead
ers of labor organizations while
the whole subject proved so COM
plicated and involved that the eff
| fort had to be abandoned.
With adjournment momentar-
lily pending, the President and
the House leaders are making a
strenuous effort to secure some
form of financial legislation. The
two houses have been in a dead
lock on this subject, the Senate
willing only to make such exten-
sion of bond secured currency as
would guard against an emer-
gency, while the House was de-
termined to embark on a new
scheme of credit currency. It
was finally determined to do moth
ing further, but to permit the f.
nancial bills of the two houses to
remain in status quo until the
next session. Then the Presi-
dent sent for Speaker Cannon
and urged that a final effort to
secure Legislation be made. He
pointed out that the party could
not but suffer if no provision were
made against a recurrence of the
financial stringency of last fall,
and that without such provision
such recurrence was almost GER
tain. Did it occur again this
year it would be on the eve Of the
presidential election and might
work serious injury. to the party.
Spurred by the advice Of the
President, who is regarded as the
ablest politician in the party, the
House leaders are trying to. frame
some sort of compromise which
they can present to the. Senate
conferees and under these cir
cumstances it is impossible to say
when Congress will adjourn, al
though adjournment is possible
Lat almost any moment. All the
big supply bills have passed and
only final agreements on meas
lures in conference remain to be
- ;-, "a
reached. s~l.., .4.,
The House has passed a cam
Ipaign publicity bill, providing
that every political organization
must keep accurate record of all
receipts, contributions and dis
bursements and at a given time
must make them public, and pro-
| yiding further that the Director