The Washington times., 1908-12-06
Wheels Start Running To-
morrow and Bills Are
Ready to Pour In.
MERELY ROUTINE
ON THE FIRST DAY
Aside From Appropriations Not
Much Finished Legislation Ex-
pected During Session.
By JOHN SNURE.

Promptly at noon tomorrow LAe senate
and House will convene for the opening
Of the second session of the SiNueth
Congress
For the last few days. Senators and
Represen.atives have been coming %
Washington on every train. To-Day,
many Of the members OF each house
arrived. and when the gaveL5 of the
Speaker and the Vice Presiden, fan az
= O'Clock tomorrow, the attendance will
be practically the complete member
ship.
Mondays work in both Senate anu
House will be largely routine. In the
Senate. il will be particularly 50, as II
is the intention 20 adjourn after few
formaIi.ies out OF respect TO the mem
ory OF Senator William p. Allison Of
Iowa. wao died in the recess. Both
houses VIII listen 10 the reading Of the
Presidents message tuesday
Opening Program
The Senate program FOR Monday viii
consist Of the cali 20 order prayer by
the chaplain. roll call: Senator Page Of
Vermont, and Senator Cummins OF
Iowa, VIII take the oath Of office; a
committee viii be named TO notify the
House that the Senate is ready 20 trans
act business, the usual resolution re-
/ spectIng notification Of the President
viii be passed; resolution viii be
passed hxing i O'Clock as the hour Of
meeting daily. and then Senator Dol
/ liver OF Iowa, viii notify the Senate
OF the death OF his colleague and reso-
buttons viii be adopted. with adjourn
ment as a further mark OF houor. The
| House routine win be Substantially the
same as that Of the senate but the
I House may see Ct 20 transact some
/ business other than routine before ad-
I journpeut
II Is the prevailing opinion Of mem
/ bers in both houses that the coming
! session viii see little accomplished out
| side Of the passage OF appropriation
( measures. At the same time an in
! terestlng and spirited session is antict-
rated IN a way, this will be a sllir-
{ rlish preliminary TO the great battle
/ Cf the special session over tariff re-
/ rision. Il is expected much viii be
: heard OF the tariff question throughout
| the short session and that in each
/ house speeches viii be heard touching
, on vlTious phases Of the tariff.
Census Bill First.
The first question OF Importance tax
/ en- up by the House will be the census
/ bill. TO provide for taking the next
( decennial census. As there Is a sharp
division Of opinion as 20 whether the
( thousands Of extra employees provided
for should be under the civil service or
under the spoils system, a fight viii
occur over this bill I'm the House and
another one when it reaches the Senate
In the Senate. the pending question
! is the Joint resolution suspending the
! commodity clause Of the Hepburn act.
The first special order in the Senate is
I the Dill 20 establish postal savings
banks, which comes up Monday, De-
cember II The Brownsville matter
comes up as a special order December
/ Is. Among the bills on the Senate cal
! endaT is the one reported out of the
judiciary Committee by Senator Clark TO
| regulate the Interstate commerce ship
| ments Of Intoxicating liquors. This bin
IS expected to cause mTCh discussion,
as il pertains to giving the States con-
trol OF liquor shipped into their b=rders.
The prohibition States Of the South are
especially interested in this subject.
: Another bin on the Senate calendar is
the resolution requesting a court of in
quiry in the case of Col William +.
Stewart It is expected Senator Rayner
viii again bring this matter before
the Senate
Postal Savings System.
Widespread interest attaches TO the
postal savings bank measure, and the
question whether the pledge OF the Chi
>! cago platform on the establishment OF
a postal savings system will be carried
out.
The President Will make numerous
recommendations, but on the plea that
there is no time. few OF them viii be
carried out One OF the President
plans thai may be provided for is a
Government liability bill It is expected
some final action will be taken on the
reinstatement Of the troops discharged
on account of the Brownsville rioting
Senator Beveridge will push the child
labor bin. Anti-injunctiOn hills VIII re-
ceive a great deal of attention Water
ways matters VIII be much in evidence
along with the whole problem OF con
b serVatiOn OF resources While some ef.
forts viii be made to get interstate
commerce legislation, little may be ex
pected TO be passed The admission OF
New Mexico and Arizona as States vii
be considered and the residents - those
States are hopeful of action.
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