Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-11-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondence

FROM Our Regular Correspondents
Washington, D. c., Nov. 13.-The
President has this week returned to
Washington and after a brief stay,
holding cabinet meeting and making
speech at the Laymen' Missionary
Association, he has departed and is at
this writing in New England. The full
cabinet is in the city and cabinet minis
tiers are busy in preparation of their
several reports. With exception of the
Secretary OF the Interior-and perhaps
it is a mistake to make exception with
regard to him-there is the appearance
OF complete harmony between the Ex-
ecutive and his 'official family,u as the
cabinet has been called.
That the coming session and in fact
the remaining days of the administers
ton will be strenuous in fact as well as
by inheritance is evident from the pro-
gram which the President outlined in
his many speeches during his encircl-
ing tour From the gist of his public
utterances, it may be inferred that his
message to Congress will urge legisla-
ton in some if not all of the following
subjects:
The establishment of national bank
OF issue controlling the treasury reserve,
the object of which will be to prevent
Currency ctrinropox,
The creation of a Postal Saving Bank
system.
A bill amending the Sherman Anti
trust law, restricting its application to
trade monopolies, not to railroad COM
binations.
Temporary suspension of the agita-
ton of the tariff question.
The adoption of an income tax amends
ment to the Constitution, to be resorted
to however, only in time of war or ma
tional stress.
The substitution of the merchant
marine with the Interior object of the
education of large number of Ameri-
can seamen to be available for national
defense.
Federal legislation governing the is
suance of injunctions and to prohibit |
the boycott.
Further conservation of national re-
sources, including forests, mines and |
waterways.
Internal waterways Improvements, !
improving the navigation of only such
streams as can be made navigable and
contemplating an internal canal sys- !,
tenn roughly parallel with the Atlantic
coast line.
A Congressional Committee to con- !
slider the subject of the dilatory and |
solvenly practice in the courts and to |
devise plan for securing more prompt |
and economical justice in the Federal
courts, with the expectation that the |
initiative by Congress may be followed
in the State legislatures to the end that
the disgraceful non-administration of |
justice in this country may be reformed.
1t will be readily seen that this legis- !
lative and administrative program is |
an ambitious one, but that it is urgent |
ly necessary, every swell informed
American knows. tits, however, be-
coming more and more difficult to car
ry out administrative reforms. The
Congress of the United States has
grown to be a heavy and unwieldy !,
body. Antagonists and internecine
wars discomfit legislation on the floors
of both the House and the Senate.
There is less antagonism between the
Republican and Democratic parties on
the floors of Congress than there has
been in perhaps forty years, but there
is antagonism IN the Republican ma
jorities of both houses, while the per-
sonaI hatreds of some Senators, fire. :
quently senators from the same states,
is said to be equalled only by the ex-
ecration that nuns in converts and
monks in monasteries have for each
other.