Evening times-Republican., 1910-11-30
SENATOR HALE SAYS CONGRESS
WILL ACCOMPLISH LITTLE
THIS WINTER.
NO TARIFF LEGISLATION
WILL De PERMITTED
Senate Leader Says Taft Will MsreIy
Suggest Program Hale Predicts
That Democrats Will Not Bs Long
in Power and Republicans Must Pre-
sent Solid Front.

Washington. Nov. 80. Senator
Eugene Hale, of Maine. republican
leader of the senate by virtue OF his
position as chairman of the party eau
Gus and OF the senate committee on ap-
! propriations, foresees little Of accomp-
lishment in the coming short session
! Of congress- Beyond the passa ge OF the
usual appropriation bills, and possibly
of an apportionment measure. and one
providing for an ocean mail bounty,
he believes no important business will
: oe transacted Hal said:
The democratic party has captured
the house Of representatives by a great
majority. and has almost captured the
senate and with the country appar-
emily behind that party. it will. I have
10 doubt insist upon taking its natural
possibilities.
Should an expiring congress. in Its
las, days. undertake, by any deathbed
action. 20 rob the victorious party OF Its
natural inheritance Il VIII be resisted
20 the utmost. and nothing Will follow
but a pro,racted struggle which Will
shut ont certain important measures
which otherwise may perhaps carry in
both houses
No Tariff Legislation.
Hale was emphatic in his dec!ara-
tioa that there would be no tariff leg
slation in the coming session. The
senator Went 50 far as 70 express the
conviction that while the president may
suggest a general program. he will not
try 70 force il on congress. He made
il clear that he was not speaking for
the president. nor in any way fore
casting the probable attitude OF Tart.
Dsmssing the question Of an extra
session as most improbable, Hale dis
cussed the proposed ocean mail subsidy
measure. He said:
With Central and South American
trade rapidly increasing and ready TO
come 10 US, we ought to pass some bill
20 aid in :ablishing steamship lines.
Hopes Bill Will Pass.
we can pass such q bin. limiting it.
if necessary, to Central and South
America. almost any day in the SEN
course. take its chance in the house,
found more favorable at this session
than 1t has been before"
Hale declared he did not look forward
! surgent force with the democratic
party. either now or hereafter" He
stated he fully expected to see the re-
publican party in congress get together
again and present united front to
the majority. Incidentally he referred
TO the insurgent lea ders as men OF
"conviction and natural force Of char
acter''
Bewails "RepuIse Of Roosevelt"
"Whom the Lord loveth he chasten-
eth said the senator. and the de-
teats OF 1910 will do the party good.
II must bear IT'S reverse and make the
best Of It. Painful as il IS. 1t must
submit to its temporary reverses and
defeats, ard must bear up as we'll as it
may under even such calamities as the
repulse of Roosevelt and the lament
able overthrow of Beveridge."
| Hale declared he had LITTLE fear OF
any long continuance of democratic
ascendancy. Republican policies. under
Tafts leadership. he said, would tri-
umph again.
/ Pension Legislation Unlikely.
! No general pension legislation is ex-
pected at the coming session of con-
gress The most important measure
now before congress. designed 20 re-
move a restriction which has kept many
widows of soldiers of the pension rolls
is upon the senate calendar; but Sen
a,or McCumber, chairman of the SEN
! ate pensions committee. and other
members of the committee are not in
! favor of further consideration of the
bill during the Sixty first congress