Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-05
CONGRESS TO START ON TINE
Everything in Readiness for Falling
Gavel on Monday. >
MESSAGE Is 10 COME TUESDAY
Financial world and All Great Inter-
est- said watching Altitude Ma
tionaI Legislature win Take
on Important Questions.

WASHINGTON. Dec t.-tSpecial Tele-
gram.)-All il In readiness for the national
legislative mill to begin grinding Monday.
Uncle" Joe Cannon. grim and resigned
Vice President Sherman. smiling and ap-
parently happy. Representatives and seEa-
tors, lame ducks and all are here and the
presidents message is ready to be sent to
congress when congress Is ready to re-
ceive Ia
When the gavel falls at noon, Monday,
three new senators viii ta;le ;ne oath. The
only oddly in the ceremony will be that
Senator Cummlns OF Iowa, the head and
front Of the progressive movement must
escort Colonel Life Young. a regular, TO
the vice presidents desk. This will cause
many to smile and a few to smoker.
The sessions Monday will be brief. Com
mittees will be detailed to call on Presi-
dent Taft and advise him that congress is
on his hands, and waiting 70 hear from
him. A report will be made that on the
following day his message will be com
municated to both branches. The meet
Ing will be at noon. The roll will be called
in the senate to get new arrivals safely on
the payroll The deaths Of former as
soclates will be announced and adjourn
ment taken a further tribute to their
memory.
ers are deeply Interested in Washington
these days and the big men in the money
world are trying to keep in close touch
with governmental affairs. President Brown
Of the New York Central, President McCrea
OF the Pennsylvania and a half dozen lesser
lights and representatives Of financial in
terests have been IN town.
Agree on One Thing.
These men agree that ali interest cen
ters in Washington and that good times
or bad in the financial and Industrial
world will be the outcome Of develop
ments here in the next few months.
The future OF investment, banking, spec
ulative and railroad prosperity they de-
clare, depends upon their contingencies in
the order OF their statement, namely, the
disposition by the United States supreme
court of the suits against the Standard OIL
and tobacco trusts the action Of the In
terstate Commerce commission upon the
application for authority to increase
freight rates and the procedure Of con
gress with respect to the presidents rec
concentrations for restrictive legislation,
together with the decision as to tariff re-
vision.
II there is not to be an extra session
Of congress this spring, the financial
world will be emboldened to look for a
period OF Legislative lnaction until the fol-
lowing spring, giving nearly q clear
twelve months Of undisturbed tariff condi-
tons
If the senate is not changed by further
deaths before March 4. the new senate OF
1911 will witness an exact division of the
! two parties upon the floor the first oc-
currence OF the kind for many years
There are fifty seats upon the republican
side and forty-two on the democratic side
and the political division OF the house will
be on that basis.
! At present Senators La Toilette, Jones
| Burton, Bristow. Root Crawford and
other republicans occupy democratic seats
| in the Cherokee strip"