Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-12
CONGRESS TO MEET
. ON MONDAY NEXT
NEW TARIFF MEASURE WILL
PROBABLY BE READ BEFORE
HOUSE AS SOON AS 1T is or
- -.a e.
CANNED.

ASHINGTON, March 10-The new
tariff dill will probably see the light for
the first time next Tuesday. The. desire
of the members of the house committee
on. ways and means is to have ii Intro
dUced i'm the house on the first day prac-
ticaDle. The probabilities are there will
be so much to do in the way of organ
izing the house and getting ready for
business that ii will be impossible to
have It presented on the first day.
There is much detail in getting new
congress started off. Possibly the one
ceremony which attracts the most atten-
ton is the election of the speaker but
when, as is the case at present. there
is only one candidate that requires COM
paTatively little time.
In addition. it is necessary to elect
all the officers of the house. to admin
lister the oaths TO all the members TO
decide upon the parliamentary rules and.
more tedious and time consuming than
any of these proceedings, it is necessa-
ry to allot seats to all the members.
The allotment Of seats is accomplished
by lottery process and generally. consumes
two or three hours.
This year a fight on the adoption of the
old rules is threatened and there is no
telling how long it will last.
IT is believed that the various ceremo-
MES will consume the entire day Mon
day and that the receipt of the presi-
dents message and the introduction of
the tariff bill win necessarily be post
poned until Tuesday.
If the rules should be changed there
would be greater delay.
Antit-Iniunction Bill
Through an attempt to codify and re.
via Ion To-
and practices of the FEDERAL courts. con-
Gress may be brought face to face during
the special session with the necessity OF
considering the proposed anti-injunction
bills and the equally troublesome question
of conflict between federal and state
courts.
Within week after the sixty-first con-
gress convenes the joint committee on
the revision of the laws of the United
States will be prepared to report on the
revision and codification of the laws con
corning the jurisdiction and practice of
the federal courts. The first work of this
committee, the codifcation and the re-
vision of the penal laws. has just been
approved by congress with few amend
ments. ---s
+ Shipment of Liquors
AS the penal code bill was amended so
as to fasten to it a rider" the Knox
Humphreys bill for the federal regulation
of the interstate shipment of Intoxicating
liquors, so ii is anticipated that advocates
ofanti-injunction legislation will attempt
to graft their bill on the judiciary eodif-
cation.
Efforts will be made at the beginning of
the special session to have the senate
consider the codi1cation. The work might
be completed possibly by the time the
a TT,-r,
the senate is considering the tariff meas
ure an attempt will be made to bring the
codifcation bill before the house.
Probably the most important change in
the judiciary laws determined upon is
that by which all the jurisdiction of the
circuit court OF appeals is conferred upon
the circuit courts The committee pro-
poses to takes away from the circuit
courts all original jurisdiction. giving. il
TO the district courts and to change the
name of the circuit court Of appeals to
Circuit courts" @
The circuit court of appeals was estab-
lished to relieve the supreme court Of the
United States. In 1890 bill was enacted
into law which while preserving the orig
the original jurisdiction of the circuit
abolished their appellate jurisdiction and
instituted the circuit court of appeals to
exercise an appellate jurisdiction oven
certain final judgments and decrease Of
district courts. while others went directly
to The supreme court.
The commission of 1897 TO revise the
laws reported in favor of the abolition OF
the original jurisdiction of thee ircml
courts. AS the circuit courts without APP
pellate jurisdiction would have the au-
thority to try no cases, it was recon-
mended that the appellate Jurisdiction of
hte circuit courts of appeal devolve upon
them. This recommendation the joint
committee is now prepared to present to
the cenafe and the house