The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-07
CONGRESS TO CONVENE TODAY There Will Be But Little
 Legislation. IF PLANS ARE CARRIED OUT Appropriations Will Occupy At tention of Both Bodies. There Will Be . Bin for Rivers ana Harbors and Provision VIII
 Be Made for Taking of
 Next Census.
IF PLANS ARE CARRIED OUT

sSCono session OL the CiAta6lH Oun- gress. Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon are both in the city.
 The two houses will appoint the usual notification committees. The Senate will then adjourn for the day out of respect to the memory of Sem ator Allison, who died during the re- cess. The House will terminate It's brief session with resolutions com uemorative, of the lives of Messrs. Parker. Wiley, Dunwell and Powers. who have died since adjournment last May
 Tuesday will be given up by both houses to reading the Presidents mes sage. AS this is President Rooseveltss last annual message to Congress. there Is unusual interest in 1t. It is not be-
 ieved that great many recommen- dations for legislation along new lines will be ventured upon by the Presi- dent.
 It Is expected that the House will begin business Wednesday morning. with the confederation Of the pending bill providing for the taking of the. thirteenth census. aa
 The Senate has no special order for the week. except for the delivery of addresses on Saturday in honor of the l memory of the late Senator Proctor.
 For next week the Senate has Gn@ tabiishment of postal savings banks.
 If Republican leaders retain their present views. the legis- iation of the session of Congress which begins tomorrow. will Include very little except the appropriation bills, These bills vii carry in the az gregate about s1,000.000, ,0o0. and the general opinion Is that in the time that will be allowed. the two houses win find they can best serve the country by giving proper attention to 4hese appropriations.
 Thers. will be q general effort to hold the appropriations down to the lowest possible limit. It Is generally understood that therG will be NH for the Improvement of rivers and liarbors. to carry not less than $2S,000. 900 or 30.000, ,000. Provision must be made this year for the census of 1910. and this will require not less than 410, 0,000,- 900. There will be other exceptional demands. so that as it now looks, Con- gress will do well if 1t succeeds in holding the appropriations of the aec- ond session of the Eixtieth Congress to the dimensions of those of the first session. The House Committee on Ap- propriations already has begun It's work on the sundry bill.
 The fact that the managers desire to restrict legislation will not prevent
 
 from exerting their efforts in behalf of favorite measures. The first effort in this direction will be made in the Sem ate by Mir. Foraker. who will renew his attempt to have passed the bill au- thorizing the re-enlistment of the ne- gro soldiers discharged without honor on account of the Brownsville riot. This measure will be the special order for December IS. Senator Beyeridge win make an effort to obtain early confederation of his child labor bill and Senator Carter, of the postal say ings bank bill.
 It is quite certain that the recent agreement between the United States and Japan will receive early consider ation in the Senate. Already a num- Der of Senators have privately express ed disapproval of the fact that the conn pact was entered into without consult ing the Senate.
 Both houses will receive recommen- dations from the Congressional Mon etary Commission looking to changes in the laws regulating the supervision of national banks. and the present in- dications are that some simple legis- lation for that purpose will be enacted.
 Anfl-TFuat Law.
 There also is a considerable element in both houses favorable to such changes in the Sherman antitrust law as will provide immunity for some of 1 the combinations, like labor unions. | which have been held to be in restraint | of trade and which is contended are | not injurious. Many also desire the | amendment of the interstate commerce | law. So as to permit traflc agreements | among the railroads, and to eliminate the commodities clause of the law. 1 The labor interests will continue their | efforts in behalf of 6 modification of | the objectionable laws. There Is oppo- sitIon. however. to ali of these meas rues.
 The, advocates of separate Statehood | for Arizona and New Mexico declare they will have the support of the Pres ident for their measures There will. however, be an effort to pass the measures over to the Sixty-first Con- gress.
 The President will recommend leg islation looking to the supervision of | telegraph and telephone lines. Bills | will be offered bringing that within the | of the Interstate Commerce | Ship subsidy also VIII | receive attention. but the probability | of action is remote.
 There will be much discussion of | the tariff in the cloak rooms. and the | Ways and Means Committee of the | House will continue its efforts to frame | A hill. but no measure will receive af- | tention on the floor of either House until after March 4th, when the pro posed special session will concentrate t,s sfforts upon this one subject. It | is even probable that action looking to A change fin the print paper and wood pulp schedules will be postponed until the special session.
 In the House. the question Of the change of the rules win be much dis cusged by individual members. although sS thia matter is intimately connected with the speakership, It's consideration will go over until the organization of the next House.
 Among other subjects which prob abIv will receive attention are those looking to the establishment of per manant Waterways Commission. pro- vidinR for a national insurance tax. looking to the more thorough inves- tiEation of industrial disputes, and means for the improvement of farm conditions along the lines to