The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-06
REPUBLICANS LINED UP FOR
THE NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN
From President Down the Workers Are Getting
Into Fighting Harness. ..StruegIe Is
for Control of House.

ing the summer and that President
Taft had slashed considerably. were IN
process Of amendment all winter long
Few days passed that some supple
mental estimates were not forwarded
to the Capitol, to the confusion and
displeasure of the appropriation com
mittees. This viii not be the case next
winter, if the President can prevent it
and the consideration of the estimates
by the President and his cabinet dur
ing the nexc few days will be of an
unusually thorough character.
No Extra Session.
In View of the Democratic prospects.
there will probably be some gossip
about an extra session of congress IN
November, Immediately following the
election. No such extra session is prac
tlcable, however much the Republicans
might like to rush through some gen
eral legislation before March next,
when the life of the present congress
expires. There VIII be only three weeks
this year between the election and the
assembling of congress in regular SEES
sion. Unless there were some great eIner
gency it would be impossible to bring
do any legislative work in that period.
1t has also been demonstrated again
and again that congress will do no
legislative work Of magnitude till after
the Christmas holidays.
But if President Taft foregoes his
Panama trip, as he has now all but
made up his mind to do, he can devote
the month of November to conferences
wi.> various legislators and to the deal
of preliminary work, essential at every
session of congress, be it long or short.
There has been talk about the finance
commission reporting IN a few weeks
so that congress can enact the long
promised currency and banking reform
this winter. That. however, is next to
impossible The subject is too large
to be disposed of in so brief a time,
even if there were very strong public
sentiment demanding an immediate en-
actment.
But there are a score of minor things
that the administration and the Repub
lican leaders would like to have dis
posed of this winter, before there is
possibility of serious Democratic inter
ference The apportionment for con-
gress under the new census is one of
them. The President will undoubtedly
be very anxious for some legislation
this winter in furtherance of his con-
servation policies. There is a very
urgent demand for Alaskan legislation.
One could easily proIong the enumera-
ton.
Whatever hope there may be for any
of this legislation, outside of the APP
preparation bills depends much upon
careful preparation. The President has
already collected vast deal of data
upon those subjects. The tasks of max
ing it ready for presentation to con
gress will be prosecuted with more or
less energy from now on, even though
the session is still quite three months
away.
BY the time President Taft leaves
Washington, he will be able to analyze
the congressional situation and ascer-
tain. in a measure, just how hopeless
1t Is. Ever since congress adjourned
it has been believed by some that the
next house would be Democratic and
that convention has been emphasized
more than ever since Maine went off on
a political tangent and surprised even
the Democrats by choosing two candi
dates Of that party as representatives.