The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-07-01
CONGRESS
ADJOURNS.
-- -aFu "rlSl
Review Of Work Accom-
plished During Session.
Most Remarkable In History for
Strenuous Times In
Many Respect.

Washington, d. C. June 25.-With
the adjournment of Congress, brief
review OF what legislation has been &c
eUmplished will be in place, and 1t
will be found that the record Of the
present Congress has seldom, If ever,
been excelled in the number and In the
Importance of the bills passed. Thir-
ty-six thousand bills were offered dur
ing the session-twenty- seven thousand
by the House and nine Thousand by
the Senate, to say nothing OF hundred
OF resolutions on a variety of subjects
In no previous session have so many
bills been presented.
With reference to those reform
movements which have become known
as the bills of the Presidents pro-
gram, there are many instances Of &C
oomplishment.
Perhaps first in importance is the
establishment of postal savings banks.
Then a revision of the railroad laws
Involving the creation of a commits
SION court.
The admission of the states OF
New Mexico and Arizona as separae
states, raising the number of sover-
eign states in the Union to forty
eight.
A very important bill was that CIV
log to the President unlimited author
fty to withdraw public lands for con-
servation purposes. Under this act
the President was granted power to
withhold lands from settlement and
, 10 conserve the water power, and at
the same time the act provided for
the agricultural entry of coal lands
which will open to se.tlemert, DIT is
said, as much as sixty million acres,
reserving at the same time the coal
right to the government.
The increase of the Navy, while
not including many ships of the first
class, was significant in the fact that
there were appropriations for Two
battIeships of $1,000 tons each. These
are to be armed with 14-inch guns,
which it Is said will make them more
formidable than any battleship on the
seas. There were appropriations also
for four torpedo-boaS destroyers. two
oolliers and four submarines. and an
increase OF three thousand seamen
was provided for in the bill.
The publicity campaign bill 10 con-
sfdered of great Importance in thar
candidates mus within a short t!me
after election publish the amount OF
campaign contributions.
A bill authorizing an appropriation
Of twenty millions in certificates OF
Indebtedness to continue reclamation
project was passed.
Also a bill creating a Bureau OF
Mines.
A bill appropria1ing $25O,OOO for the
support of a tariff board was another
OF the Presidents bills that had much
OPPOSITION before it was finally pass
ed.
Bills looking to The suppression OF
traffic in white slaves, providing a
new tariff system for the philippine
Islands, promoting prohibition in the
Hawaiian Islands, creating a commits
sion to consider economies In the
management of the national govern
ment, We're other important, enact
menes
100000 was appropriated for the
raising and removal of the wrecked
battleship Maine In Havana Harbor
Cuba.
Among the measures which failed tc
pass, although 1t was we'll known THAT
the President favored them, was q
ship subsidy bill; an anti-injunction
bill; a bill for a new form Of govern
ment In Alaska and also In panama;
also bills to create bureu Of health;
providing increased rates Of postage
6or second-class mail matter and 70
establish the Appalachian Forest Re
asrve.
Taken all in all, this has been a
rWmrk ably strenuous Congress. and
there is no doubt but that record
has been set which will be stimulat'
is,g example to succeeding Congresses
Apart from the reformative and pro-
srsasive legislation above referred