The Carlisle independent., 1910-04-14
CONGRESS MUST
 WORK RAPIDLY
Little Progress Has Been Made with Any Measure But
 Budget Bills.
ATTITUDE OF THE DEMOCRATS
They Probably Will Support Lesisla- ton Sanctioned by the PeopIe-Re- publicans Suspicious Because Opponents Urge Nomination
 of Roosevelt.


 Opponents Urge Nomination
 of Roosevelt.
 Washington.-If congress wishes to go before the country with record of full accomplishment for the ses- sion 1t will be necessary for it to do a good deal of work within the next six or eight weeks. The house and senate have been in session since the first Monday in December and if the appropriation bills be eliminated, the number of measures which are well forward on the road to passage are | comparatively few.
 l It has been shown by the history of nearly all congresses that when the senators and the representatives make up their minds to go to work and do it. they manage to get through with good deal of legislation in short order. The postal savings bank bill has passed the senate, but the house has not yet given it considera- ton except in committee. The inter- state commerce bill was introduced
 
 virtually the saHe moment. and the two bills were identical. The house has made many changes in the meas urue. The senate also has made changes, but they are not in many respects like those which were made in the house.
 No Conservation Bills Passed.
 No conservation measures have yet passed congress. President Taft has been urging that at least two compre- hensive bills shall be passed to save the country's natural resources. Near ly every day President Taft i'm presses upon members of congress who call on him personally the neces- sity for legislation along conservation lines. and it is apparent that he hopes his desires will be needed. It will take some time, however, to pass the conservation bill. for it appears that there is to be considerable debate upon them before they can be enact ed into law.
 No one yet knows definitely what 1 fate awaits the administration de sires with reference to what is called anti-injunction legislation. Statehood and Alaska matters are still in abey- ance, and while to a considerable ex- tent all these matters have been fully considered in committee and to some extent considered in debate, there is no telling just how long it will take either to pass them or to deny them passage.
 It is getting late in the season and a great many of the members of con- gress, both Democrats and Republi- cans, are anxious to get back into their districts to fix up their fences l for the coming congressional cam paign. Of course it will be to the advantage of the Republicans if they can go before the country and say, As party we have passed much of the progressive legislation which the platform sanctioned and which the president asked for"
 Attitude of Democrats.
 It can be said without any partisan spirit at all that it seems likely the Democrats will be willing to aid the Republicans in the passage of some of the legislation now before con- gress, although the Democrats may offer amendments to some of the pending bills.
 It is apparent from what the Demo crats say that they realize the coun- try has demanded some of the legisla- tion which the president has asked i congress to pass. The Democrats contend, however. that the Republi- cans will not put it through in the form that the people wish, and there fore the minority party will go on 1 record as in favor of amending the present bills to some marked degree The Democrats, however, apparently do not care to go before the country in the light of having blocked such of the Republican legislation as appar- ently has been sanctioned by the country. So it is that the members of both parties may get together and put through considerable legislation between now and the date of adjourn ment, and it is evident that 1t must be put through quickly or that con- gress will be obliged to sit until Washington swelters iii it's usual sum- mer heat
 Roosevelt Still Silent.
 It seems to be certain that the silence of Theodore Roosevelt is not to be broken until he reaches this country, and the fact that the colonel seems to prefer to keep his own counsel is affecting Reput- licans and Democrats in Washington in different ways. The Democrats see In 1t strong possibility that the for mer president eventually may make up his mind that at the "call of the country he will feel it imperative to answer 'here" in the year 1912. The so-cai,ed regular Republicans In congress still pin their faith to the belief that when MT. Roosevelt finally speaks it will be to voice an indorse- ment of the Taft administration as | ia hoa