The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-06
|CAVEL DROPS FOR CONGRESS Law Makers Ready For Work. LEADERS KEEP PLANS SECRET All Await Recommendations q President Taft Contents of First Aassal Messass Ars Eagerly Asticipates-ITnsur- gents" Defer Action Untn
 Executives Course is
 Made Public.

morrow the first regular session of the sixty-first Congress will be cons vened. Vice. President sherman will preside in the Senate and Speaker Cam
 non will wield the savel in the House. The beginning of the session is re- garded as always with much interest but there have been few sessions In
 recent years for which there has been
 so little planning among members. or dinariiy Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrfch. who speaks for the majority of the Senate. have a program at the beginning of a session. but this year they have none or. If they have. they are not talking about it. They are awaiting the President. By common consent, apparently, all are holding back until the presidential recommendations can be received. as they will be on Tuesday. in his first annual message.
 That all his suggestions will be act- ed upon is too much to say. But there Is disposition to accommodate him as far as can be done and there Is a
 determination 10 hear his recommenda- tions before entering upon any effort
 at legislation along lines upon which he has intimated desire to be heard. s1nsurgenfs. Defer Actlen. }. Even the .insursents'.s generally ex- press willingness to walt upon the White House before attempting to for-
 muiate a plan of action. This is true both in the Senate and the House They mahifest much interest in the forthcoming message. but say that un- til 1t is received they will be unable te form any plans
 They proclaim no nght against the
 President but some at least of them are avowedly irreconcilabie in their attitude towards the Speaker and Sem ator Aldrich. whom they hold respon- sible. the one for the House rules. and the other for the tarin law. unques-
 tionubiy they wiii be heard from be- | fore the session grows vesy old. and 1t
 Is not hoped by the friends of the new l tariff that they will escape criticism.
 They are prepared Ter this and will attempt to meet it when 1t comes. There is practically no prospect of amending the rules of the House du- ring this session and the indications arai effort in that direction. Thers
 doubtless will be some talk.
 The principal interest in the outlook
 centers in the possibility of railroad legislation and all. hands are awaiting
 with keen expectancy to see what rec
 concentrations Mfr. Taft may make on that subject.
 Mana After RaiIroaas.
 Representative Mann has bills pre-
 pared on all these points and will pre-
 sent them as soon as the message Ia
 received. He Is chairman of the com
 mittee which will have the measures tn hand and will press them with viEor.
 Much interest Is felt in the Nicar- aguan situation. but the general dis-
 position Is to permit the executive branch to deal with 1t without iegis- lative Interference at least In the present stage. Congressmen general ly express no apprehension as to the outcome.
 The attitude of Canada towards the provisions of the tariff law relative to print paper and wood pulp Is giv- ing some concern. There will be ear
 ly efforts to remedy this situation but there is no certainty of the outcome. While the corporation tax provision of the tariff bill was under consider ation during the extra. session. Sena- tor Aldrich expressed the opinion that probably will take no steps to abro- gate 1t until the full effect of the
 tariff as revenue producer can be ascertained.
 Representative Campbell will intro duce 6 resolution Monday in regard
 to an investigation of the sugar trust May Attain Statehood. An opinion is quite general that af-
 ter their long walt at the church"
 New Mexico and Arizona will attain to statehood before the close of the session. The President has promis-
 ed that they shall come in separately and while many members still regard the two territories as unprepared for the responsibilities of statehood. the
 probability is that they will yield and allow the passage of a bill enabling
 their admission.
 There also will be strenuous efforts to get through postal savinge bill and a merchant marine bin. but both
 will be opposed.
 Both houses will probably adjourn almost immediately after conveninE
 on Monday; the Senate on account of
 the death of Senator Johnson of North
 Dakota and the House because of the deaths of Representatives DeArmond of Missouri, and Lassiter, of Virginia. all of which have occurred during the
 recess.
 MT. Thompson. who succeeds Sen- ator Johnson, will be sworn in the Senate as will Mir. McCreedie and Kr. Moxley, the one the successor of the late Representative cushman of
 Washington ana the other os William Lorimer, of IilinqAe. elevated to the Senate.
 The Presidents message will be re. ceived and read in both houses on Tuesday.