Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-12-09
The LONG SESSION
Appropriation Bills Give Eight of
Way.
LIVELY TIMES EXPECTED.
Much Interest is Manifested in Presi-
dents Message on Account OF
Many Questions he Will Have to
Deal With.

Washington, D. c., special.-Con-
gress assembled Monday on the
"long session." which will probably
run into the summer. Senators and
Representatives who have arrived ex-
press a determination to take up the
work of the sssion vigorously with
the hope Of having it well advanced
before the holidays. The House is
alreday organized by the election OF
Speaker and officers at the extra ses-
sion, and the appointment Of COM
mittees, so there will be no excuse
for that body not getting down to
business at once.
The appropriation bills are to be
given the right Of way at both ends
of the capitol and pressed through
with all possible haste. When the
appropriations bills have been dis
posed of! Congress will turn its at
tention to more interesting if not
more important measures.
Here are some of the things Con-
gress will find ready to hand to
work n
Sweeping changes in the railway
laws, giving added power to the IN
~terstate Commerce Commission.
An amendment to the Sherman am
/! thrust act exempting labor unions
from penalties for combination.
S%ubventions for the upbuilding OF
the merchant marine and extension
of the ocean mail srvice. !
Authorization to railroads to pool
under strict supervision Of the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Legislation regulating the boycott
and the issuance Of injunctions
against labor organizations.
Internal waterway improvements,
according to the policy outlined by
The President in his recent addresses
in the South and West.
A proposal to reduce the present
tax on oleomarga1ine.
An investigation Of the sugar trust
scandal will be proposed, and may
or may not be undertaken.
Much interest is manifested in the
President message on account OF
the great importance Of the many
questions it will have to deal with.
No presidential message in years,
lit is safe to say, will have been lis
tened to with a greater amount of
e-agerness and interest. In the course
Of his recent tour Of the country Mr..
Taft outlined in HIS yariou address
es the views he held concerning
the great public ques ions of the day
and which he is expected to incor-
porate in his message.
The President will propose to Con-
gress important legislation upon at
least ten subjects. Each is a matter
which will provoke discussion and
arouse opposition in Congress. The
chief subjects to be dealt with are:
Supervision of the issue Of stocks
and bonds by interstate corporations;
readiustment of the duties and power
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission; expansion Of the duties CT
the Bureau of Corporations; crea-
ton of a new bureau in the Depart
ment of Justice to deal with viola
tons of law by inteterstate carriers;
establishment of q so-called "rail-
road court; amendment of the
Sherman antitrust act; creation of q
| postal savings bank; ship subsidies;
amendment of the procedure regard
ing the granting of injunctions, ano
the conservation of natural resources
In addition to these it is probable
that currency reform will be recon-
mended, not as something to be i'm
mediately undertaken but to be con-
sidered when the report of the None
tary Commission is completed.