The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-12-31
EXPECTING
BIG WINTER
Washington Looks Forward to a
Hot Congressional Session
and Plenty Doing.
By Ernest @. Walker,

red letter day oil every washington
year, except that in which President
is inaugurated, has come ana gone. 1t
is the opening day of session of con-
| gress. Government business now has |
| the call. The activities of every fed |
eral branch are at high tide. The city |
has taken on the hustle and hustle
| that belongs to the tasks of governing
a great big nation of 90,000,000 of peo-
Pile. The peoples governing plant,
with it's intricate and extensive ma
| chinery and the enormous personnel re-
uuired to man it, is in full operation.
The coming of congress brings this
state of affairs about. Not that con-
gress always takes off its coat and
gets down to hard work in short order,
after it has assembled. Far from it.
These are to be days of dilly.dallying
for while on Capitol Hill. The enor-
nous legislative plant starts up slowly.
The wheels have tremendous momen-
tum, however, which grows as the speed
is accelerated. The opening week is
generally one of formalties. They can
not be avoided in the big business of
federal government.
But a desire to expedite is apparent.
Committees of senate and house have
received the word to "get busy" The
chairman are sending out notices to
gather around the long mahogany tables
at 10 O'Clock in the morning. A shower
of bills has already been projected in
TO senate and house, making abundant
material to begin on. And it will be
only few days-probably before the
end of this week-when the house will
have big appropriation bill to con-
slider and debate.
But whether the house celebrates or
whether the senate deliberates, or
whether both bodies adjourn few min
utes after the noon hour every day for
a while till a program is ready, the
presence of the congressman and all
that that implies gives the famous old
town life. The powers of government
, are all assembled within one city. The
men return with new ideas and views,
f and the great annual exchanging pro-
cess, by which general sentiment is de-
: veloped, has gotten into swing. There
are many visits of courtesy and many
visits on business to the White House
offices. Everybody is in the best of
spirits, characteristic or the attitude of
, men on the threshold of new period
of effort. All are entering upon the
preliminaries zestfully, planning for the
inevitable struggles and hoping for per-
, sonal and party triumphs.
1t will be big winter. The pessi-
mists, who came on the scene with
. prediction that there would be little
doing have already retired in confu-
. sion. There will be agitation and leg
islation and shaping of policies to in
terest the country before this session
!, of the sixty-first congress expires.
There was a great rush in the final
preliminaries, the like unto which has
not been in many years. The President
y was late with his annual estimates
; Most of the annual preparations in the
departments came in tardily. The sec
rotary of the navy made a slip in the
!, estimates for battleship construction
n which came hear throwing all the ma
', chinery of the treasury department out
of gear. 1t was matter of about $12,-
. 100000, the cost of new ship construc-
r ton during the year. No one over at
/, the navy department seems to have
|, thought about it, in fact it is under
), stood that the cost of new ship con
. struction has not usually been included
|, in the estimates.
N Some one discovered at the very
/ eleventh hour that it ought to be ant
l. although it knocked sky high some OF
the big talk about cutting navy ex
} penses for the coming year, the estimat,
r, had to go in, There was a tremendou.
> fuss around the treasury department
l. the expert statisticians on estimates
l, began to rebuild the towering structur,
d they had been a!miling. Hurry call
l. went out for the government printers
a The advance copies of estimates wer,
/; correct ed and after quite big fuss i
s, was all Strengthened out as though
II nothing untoward had happened.
0. The President was correcting his an
nual message right down to the las
ia minute before it was sent to congress
0, Tuesday, but the important documen
o. arrived on time and nearly everybod,
a. was happy-all except those who d,
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6, Hills Honolulu, Oahu; $3.50. B 1876,
135. Dated Dec 10, 1909.
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