Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-12-06
CONGRESS OPENS
LONG SESSION OF SIXTY.FIRST
CONGRESS BEGINS TODAY.
Forecast of Session Indicates II will
Be History Making Epoch for Re-
publican Party. Fight Against
Cannon to Begin with the Opening
OF the House.

WASHINGTON. b. c., Dec. A.
Congress will meet Monday for the
long session" of the 61st Congress
and it will be busy until we'll into
the summer of 1910. 1t will have
great deal of very important work
to consider and the session, it is
generally believed, in various ways
will be likely to determine the fate
of the Republican party for the i'm
mediate future.
The House is already fully organ
lied, with it's officers elected, COM
1aittees appointed and bills Ivy The
thousands introduced. 1t will be
ready for business from the opening
day. The same thing is true Of the
Senate. The legislative wheels will
therefore begin at once to grind and
it should not be long before the
country will know what it is to eX
pect in the way of new laws or
amendments of old ones.
The appropriations committee of
the House will assemble as soon as
Chairman Tawney and his associates
return from Panama, which will be
this week, and the first thing it
will do will be to take up the leg
islative, executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill. The special Tariff
session. which gave an opportunity
for the House to be organized and
for bills to be introduced, will give
Congress the advantage of several
weeks, as compared with the aver
age long session. and this ought
to push the regular legislative work
forward.
But the chances for speed may be
deceiving. There is trouble brew
ing in both houses. The insur-
gents of the House-and there is
nearly always an insurgent move
ment in that body--has been match
ed by formidable insurgent move
ment in the Senate, and taken to-
gether they may be able to Cause
the leaders of those houses much
anxiety and impede progress.
Friction between the speaker ana
the House insurgents will develop
at once, but nobody yet knows what
particular turn it will take. 1t is
believed that no parliamentary sit
uation can be created which Will
make it possible to bring up the
question of whether Speaker Can
non is to be retired At the same
time. there will be careful hunt for
such situation by the insurgent
leaders. The speaker is now "a
mighty angry man." and for weeks.
in the West, has been making hery
speeches, during which he has read
numerous Republicans out of the
party. The insurgents have been
doing a little reading out themselves,
and according to them, the speaker
and his assistants are no better than
they ought to be, and should be re-
tired from their posts of leadership.
It is said the speaker intends 10
make things lively for Herbert Par
sons of New York and Parsons is
understood to be equally anxious for
trouble. Both sides thus being will
ing, it is probably that an interesting
situation is to develop. Whatever
else happens if the Parsons charges
are investigated, some light should
be trown on the question whether
the speaker did in fact, as Parsons
charges, make deal with certain
Tammany Democrats when, with
their aid and that of few South
erners. he managed to secure the
adoption of the old House rules last
spring.
The insurgents are rampant. and
those of them who are already In
Washington are breathing out threat
enings of slaughter in a truly won
derful way. quite matching the vi
troilic outgivings of the speaker on
stump in the West. The House in
surgents have been heartened by
the insurgent movement in the Sen
ate. Senator Cummins of Iowa, one
of the ablest and most forceful OF
the Senate insurgents, has been IN
town for more than week rallylnS
his followers and getting ready Tor
the fray. senator La Toilette IS eX-
pected soon, and then the lest OF
them will put in an appearance, Bev-
eridge, Bristow and Senator Thomp'
son of the North Dakota, who. whiie
Democrat, says he has insurgent
tendencies.
On all sides it will thus be seen.
there are wars and rumors OF wars,
and willing preparation for the
fray. Whether all this bother is to
interfere seriously with the import
ant legislative program which the
President will submit to Congress
and the country in his annual mes
sage. remains to be determined. oo-
yiously, il will be bound to interfere
TO some degree. but II 1t should pre-
vent laws being enacted whicn tne
country wants. there will undoubted-
" be day of reckoning at the polls
next November.
probably not since the Civil War
has n triumphant political party, IN
full control OF all departments OF me
government, ever been confronted
With as much opposition as that
which now confronts the Republican