The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-23
News OF NATIONS
CAPITAL
BY Sheldon s. Cline.

gress is very eager to comply with
President Taft's suggestion that the
tariff bill be passed and adjournment
taken at the earliest day consistent
with careful legislation. A very earn
est effort will be made to complete the
work by June /, and no one il now
heard predicting that final passage Of
the bill will be delayed more than .
fortnight beyond that date. 1t 10 only
few weeks ago that senators and req
resentatives were talking Of October
I as an early date for adjournment.
There is going to be no little pres
sure for consideration Of other legisla-
tive matters, DESPITE President Taft's
advice to the contrary, but if Speaker
Cannon sticks to his resolve not to
appoint the house committees this pres
sure will be futile. 1t is possible an
exception may be made in the Case
of the bill providing for the taking Of
the next census, which was vetoed by
President Roosevelt because it did not
provide that appointments should be
made upon certification Of the civil
service commission. Mr.. Crumpacker
of Indiana has reintroduced the bill
in form which meets this objection
and it is desirable the measure should
be passed at the earliest possible day
in order that preliminary work for the
census taking may begin.
Another matter which will be pushed
Is the resolution providing for submit
ting to the states the constitutional
amendment necessary to changing the
date of inauguration. The argument OF
those urging the measure is that action
should be taken while memory of the
terrible weather of Last 4th Of March
is still fresh in mind, but as the mat
ter is not one upon which immediate
action is vital Speaker Cannon 10 not
likely to pave the way for its consider
alton by appointing the Judiciary CON-
mittee.
When the 61st congress convenes
next December it is going to be for
one OF the most important sessions ever
held. President Taft's program for
interstate commerce and antitrust
legislation is going to battle for para
mountcy with the Aldrich commission .
plan for currency reform, and ship
subsidies will hang on the TANKS Of
both.
1t remains to be seen, Of course,
what sort Of reception congress will
accord the Taft's interstate commerce
antitrust recommendations. A good
many of the most influential republican
leaders in congress do not believe
there should for the present be any
further legislation Of this character
and the president will have to be very
convincing in his arguments if their
minds are changed. The currency bill
could be so handled in the senate az
TO afford a very effective obstacle to
antitrust legislation, but Senator
Aldrich is too deeply interested in the
passage of the currency bill to allow
it to be extensively used for this pur-
pose. He wants it enacted into law
as the crowning achievement Of his
long career in congress, and he ism t GO
ing to consent that it be permanently
converted into buffer.
Advocates of ship subsidies are con-
fident they will win their fight during
the life Of the present congress. 1t is
true they were confident they would
win in the Goth congress and didn t,
but their defeat was by the narrowest
of margins. They claim to be suffi-
GENTLY stronger in the present house
to put through the measure, but that
is something which can only be demon
strated by test. If they can get it
through the house they will have no
difficulty in the senate, the senate hav.
ing been ship subsidy body ever since
the late Senator Hanna backed the
original measure.
Statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico is practically assured at the
next session. The method by which
passage of the statehood bill was pre-
vented at the last session smacked very
much of trick. and the same trick is
not likely to work twice. The state
hood bill can be put, through the house
in an hour, and as there is no set day
upon which the next session must al