The Republican journal., 1910-12-08
The Congressional Outlook.
Senator Hale Expects to See Apportion.
ment Bill Passed at This Session. But
Little Other Legislation.

WASHINGTON, D. c., November 20.
Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, Repub-
llcan leader of the Senate, by virtue of
his position as chairman of the party
caucus OF the Senate Committee on An
preparation, forsees little of ACCOMPLISH
ment IN the coming short session of Con-
gress. Beyond the passage of the usual
appropriation bills, and possibly of an
apportlonment measure and one provid-
ing an ocean mail bounty, he believes no
important business will be transacted.
1.-The Democratic party" he said, to-
day, has captured the House If Repre-
sentatlves by great majority and has
almost captured the Senate, and with the
country apparently behind that party it
will, have no doubt, insist on taking it's
natural responsibilities.
'Should an expiring Congress, in it's
last days, undertake, by any death bed
action, to rob the victorious party of it's
natural inheritance it will be resisted to
the utmost and nothing will follow but a
protracted struggle which will shut out
certain important measures which other
wise may, perhaps, carry in both houses. I"
Mr.. Hale was emphatic in his declara-
ton that there would be no tariff legis-
lation in the coming session. The Sena-
tor went so far as to express the convic-
ton that while the President may suggest
a general program he will not try to force
it on Congress. Mr.. Hale made it clear
that he was not speaking for the Presi-
dent or in any way forecasting the prob
able attitude of the chief executive.
Dismissing the question of an extra
session as ''most improbable" Mr.. Hale
discussed the proposed ocean-mail sub
sidy measure.
with the central and South American
trade rapidly increasing and ready to
come to US, he said, "wt ought to pass
some bill TO aid in establishing steamship
lines to command this trade. We can
to Central and South America, almost
ure must, of course, take its chance in
the House, which / am led to believe
may be found more favorable at this ses-
sion than it has been before.
"We shall? l suppose" he continued,
"as usual, in the short session, pass the
new apportionment bill under which the
next Congressional elections will be held.
| In this action, as to the numbers and
membership of the House of Represen-
tatives and the apportionment to the
different States, the Senate generally
has deferred to the judgment and action
of the House"
! Mr.. Haledeclared he did not look for
ward to a combination of the so-called
insurgent force with the Democratic
party, "either now or hereafter" He
stated that he fully expected to see the
Republican party in Congress get to-
| gether again and present united front
to the majority. Incidentally, he refer
red to the insurgent leaders as men of
conviction and natural force of char
acter."
Whom the Lord Loveth he chas.
teneth," said the Senator, "and the de-
feats of 1910 will DO the party good. II
must bear its reverses and make the best
of it. Painful as it all is, it must submit
to its temporary reverses and defeats
der even such calamities as the repulse
of Roosevelt and the lamentable over.
throw of Beveridge."
Mr.. Hale declared he had little feal
of any long continuance of Democratic
ascendency in politics. Republican poll
cies, under President Taft's leadership
he said, would triumph again.
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