Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-25
Party Leaders Willing 10 Yield On.
Iy Part Of Its Demands.
CONGRESS TAKES CENTER OF STAGE
About to Decide on the Most Import
ant Matters Now Uppermost in the
Nation--Facins Venezuelan Mission
STAND Pa,ters" Brought to Senses

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. March Oh
Congressional and administrative mat
ters will reach stage this week
where the attention of the entire
country will be focused OH the White
House ana the Capitol as it has not
been in years.
On the eve of presidential cam
paign, on the heels of Il financial dis
turbance. and with the battleships in
the Pacific. the dominant party is
about to take steps which will decide
whether there is to be a tariff revi-
sion. whether there is 10 be an adjust
ment Of the strife between labor and
capital. whether there is to to an en-
Urgency currency, and whether there
is 10 be little war with Venezuela.
An enumeration of what is coming
quick and fast before the attention of
Congress includes matters in which
he entire American public Is vitality
Interested. AS first step in holding
the public attention. President Roose-
welt will transmit from Secretary
Root the official record and reports
on the matters at issue with Vene-
zucla. President Cleveland sent n
message to Congress thirteen years
ago which threatened war with Great
Britain because it was about to use
| force against Venezuela over the
boundary question. Now the admins.
tratlon. through the request of friend.
! ly senators. is seeking TO have placed
In It's hands full authority for the en-
ployment of force to compel Venezuela
10 arbltrate the questions relating to
various American enterprises in that
country. These reports are expected
10 20 10 Congress tomorrow.
There will he q vote in the Senate
early In the week on the Emergency
( Currency bill. which has teen before
that body for almost two and hall
months and then the bill will go to
the House Its fate Will probably be
decided in the Affirmative in that
body.
| President Roosevelt is expected tc
send TO Congress on Wednesday q
special message. embodying his views
on matters upon which he thinks Con-
sress should act. Assurances are
given that his message will differ IL
tone. if not in substance, from that
which he sent on January 81. ant
which was regarded by the financial
interests as especially hostile to then
and was given as reason for anoth.
er slump in the stock market.
The coming message Is outlined a:
conservative and conciliatory. 1t 81
said TO be not very long and to dea
with practically all matters In which
the President is Interested. Thes
are labor, railroad combinations. RICH
TO combine on the part OF railroad.
and labor unions. tariff. trusts, will
the right of combinations to exist un.
der law; an Employers Liability bill
and immunity of labor unions from
the three penalty clause" of tn,
Sherman Antitrust law.
Capital does not get all It demands
in the message. hut 1t gets much. Ia
Dor does not get all It demands in tn,
message. but II gets much. The Prea
idont will not recommend that Con
sress lesalze that favorite weapon
denounced In the report OF the Goa
strike commission. the boycott.
But this is not all that is cominl
to the attention OF Congress. TIL
tarih reformers in the Republican
party have won n victory over tn
stand patters' and the latter hav
been brought to realize that revision
Is coming and they had better take
hand and have the tariff revised b
Its friends" rather than Its "ene
mics"
The strategy of the Republicans Il
arranging to meet the tarifi Issue b