The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-26
HAS 4 POOR RECORD
PRESENT CONGRESS HAS BEEN IN SESSION SIX MONTHS WITH
 OUT ANY RESULTS.
IMPORTANT LAWS IN BAD SHAPE
Prospects Are Very Poor for Passn1 Any of the Administration Propos. tions Before July, if at AlI--statua of the Various Measures.

Washington. May 24-Wnthin week six months of this session of the sixty-frst congress will have expired. That period of time has not sufficed to enact into law single one of those matters of proposed legislation known as the administration legislative pro- gram. Of all these propositions tha railroad bill perhaps Is the most vital and far-reaching in It's effect upon tha people in general and that bill Is still in the throes of discordant discussion in the senate. The house has passed the bill in largely amended form. In the senate itSis difficult to make any prediction as to what may be Ac- complished. Already two of the inl- portant sections have been struck out in order to avoid delay and in fis tile effort to~ bring thS factions to- gether. These are the section relat- ing to traffic agreements and mergers.
 The Railroad Bill.
 The last three sections Of the bill, relating to capitalization probably will share the same fate. The president wants these sections retained: the in- surgents urge that they be strength- ened: MT. Aldrich at heart wants them rejected. and the Democrats op- pose them on the ground that they in- terfsre with the rights of the respec- tive states. MT. Aldrich has been cred- tied with making overtures to the Democrats to throw them out If tho Democrats will agree to vote with the organization to table objectionable amendments offered by the insurgents. Democrats deny this, and a vey con- siderable number of the minority have expressed themselves in forcible term, as opposed to any agreement that will operate to the disadvantage of the insurgents through whose efforts tho Democrats say they have been able and through them only to obtain cer- tain amendments and concessions they deemed essential.
 There are no signs of weakening on the part of the insurgents, although Senators Deliver and Cummins say they arc opposed to delaying action f day longer than is necessary to prop erly consider tho pending measure. Up to now 1t has been impossible to get unanimous consent for the final stroke. The indications are tha. this consent may be given by the end of the week and the vote had during the first week in June. Then the bill must go to conference. The measures of the two. houses are so vastly difrer- ent that they will remain in confer- epce perhaps several weeks.
 Other Measures.
 The other measures included in the legislative program of the president are in equally precarious straits. Statehood. seems doomed to failure. The bill has passed the house and Is before the senate. The two bills vary in vital particulars. If passed by the senate. there is no hope of the con ferees agreeing at this session. The postal savings bank bill is in like shape Injunction matters have not been considered by the senate at all and conservation measures are still in formulative condition before the senate committee. The one bill giving the president authority to withdraw public lands may get through. Other public land bills are not being crowd ed.
 The sundry civil bill. upon which general debate in the house closed Saturday, is still to be acted upon in the senate The tariff commission ax,eudpaanf xuffi ha tha oa..a. rs ,.<. life debate.
 The chances are good that the op- portunity thus presented will be seized upon to conduct regular tariff cam paign discussion.
 In this the insr gents will be in their element Adjournment the most conservative senators agree. cannot come until early in July and some think 1t may be later than that.