The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-06-25
CONGRESS Is TO
QUIT AT FIVE
THIS AFTERNOON
Winds Up Great Volume Of
Business and Very Little
Left Undone.
Aldrich Is Absent and Hale
is the Leader.
SOME OF THE LAWS MADE.

| washington, June Z5.-SenatOr
Hale is the senate leader on account
OF the absence of Aldrich. He an
nounced II Is expected congress will
adjourn at o'clock this afternoon.
In the matter of reform move
ments for which President Taft
stood sponsor there were many in
stances of success. Chief In the list
of legislation for which the admins
tration contended were the follow
ing:
Taft Measures Passed.
Striking revision of the railroad
laws, including the creation of Q
commerce court.
Admitting Arizona and New Mex
leo as separate states.
Authorizing the establishment of
postal savings banks.
Giving to the president unlimited
authority to withdraw public lands
for conservation purposes.
Providing for publicity of cam
paign contributions.
Authorizing the issue of 100000
900 in certificates of Indebtedness
to complete reclamation projects.
Creating a bureau of mines.
Extending the activities of the
tariff board and appropriating $780,
600 for its use.
Looking to the Suppression of
traffic in white slaves"
Authorizing the entry Of the sur
face of coal lands.
| Creating commission to con-
slider economies in the administra-
ton OF the federal government.
Providing a new tariff system for
the Philippine Islands.
| Legislation, which, ultimately is
expected to give practically prohik-
ton to the Hawaiian Islands.
Some He Failed 60 Pass.
Opposed to the foregoing formid-
| able list of legislation obtained we've
a comparatively small number OF
measures which had administration
sympathy but failed of passage.
They were measures on the sub
jects of ship subsidy. anti-injunction
for new form of government In
Alaska and on the Panama canal
zone; to create bureau of health;
to provide increased rates of post
age for second-class mail matter; to
create the Appalachian forest re-
serve, and increase the engineer
corps of the army.
Not the least conspicuous acts of
congress were the strenuous meas
ures taken by the house OF repre-
sentatives to reform its system OF
conducting buiness, so that less
power might be reposed in the
speaker and the organization of
which he was the natural leader.
The speaker was removed from
the committee on rules, which he
had previously been credited with
dominating, and a new rule was
adopted for the purpose OF effect
ually preventing pigeon-holing of
bills by committees when they were
approved by majority of the
house, regardless of party afiilia-
lions. ~
The Railroad Bill.
More time was consumed In con-
sidering the railroad bill than was
taken up by any other subject of
legislation. This measure not only
creates a commerce court, but 10
embodies authority for a commis-
sion to inquire into stock and bond
issues OF railroads, extends the pro-
vision for the interstate commerce
act to telegraph and telephone COM
panies. and gives to the interstate
commerce commission power TO post
pone increases in rates until the
commission shall have found the
proposed increases to be not unreal
sonable. -
An act was also passed to compel
railroads to furnish to the Interstate
commerce commission reports on ac-
cidents so that congress may be bet
ter informed as to the needs OF fur
Their legislation.