Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-30
SENATOR HALE
ON SHORT SESSION.
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Republican Leader Of Senate
Thinks That Very Little viii
Be Accomplished.
NO TARIFF LEGISLATION
lie Says That The Defeat OF 1910 Will
DO Republican, Party
Good.

Washington. Nov. Ex-senator Eu-
gene Hale Of Maine, Republican leader
OF the senate by virtue OF his position
as chairman OF the party caucus and
the committee on appropriations, fore
sees little of accomplishment in the
coming short session of Congress. Be-
You'd the passage or the usual appro-
priation bills ana possibly of an appor-
tionment measure and one providing
an ocean mail bounty, he believes no
important business will be transacted
The Democratic party" he said to-
day, has captured the house OF repre-
sentatives by Il great majority and has
almost captured the senate, and. with
the country apparently behind. will.
have no doubt, insist upon taking its
natural responsibilities. Should an ex-
piring Congress. in its last days. I'M
dertakc, by any deathbcd action, to
rob the victorious party of its natural
Inheritance. 1t will be resisted to the
utmost and nothing will follow but n
protracted struggle which will shut out
certain important measures which
otherwise may perhaps carry In both
houses"
Mr.. HAS was emphatic in his dcclar-
alton that there would be no tariff
legislation in the coming session. He
went so far rs to express the conviction
that, while the president may suggest
"a general program he will not try to
force 1t on Congress. Mr.. Hale made
1t clear that he was not speaking for
the president. nor in any way forecast
ing the probable attitude of the chief
executive.
Dismissing the question of an extra
session as most improbable" Mr.
Hale discussed the proposed ocean mall
subsidy measure. with the Central
and South American trade rapidly in
creaslng and ready to come to U.S." he
said. I'VE ought to pass some bill to
aid In establishing such lines to COM
mand this trade. We can pass such q
bill. limiting it, IL necessary, to Central
and South America, almost any day in
the senate: The house, am led to
believe, may be found more favorable
at this session than it has been be-
fore
I'VE shall, l suppose, as Is usual in
the short session. pass the new appor-
tionmcnt bill under which the next
congressional electnons will be held"
Mr.. Hale declared he did not look
forward to combination of the So
called insurgcnt force with the Demo-
cratic party. either now or hereafter"
He said he fully expected to see tho
Republican party in Congress get to-
gether again and present a united
front to the majority. Incidentally. he
referred to the insurgcnt leaders as
men of conviction and natural force
of character"
Whom the Lord loveth, he chas-
teneth.''' said the senator. land the de-
fcats of 1910 will do the party good. It
must bear its reverses and make the
best of It. Painful as 1t all Is, the
party must submit to ITS temporary re-.
verses and must bear up as well as it
may. under even such calamities as tho
repulse of Roosevelt and the lamenta bic
overthrow of Beveridge."
Mr.. Hale declared he had little fear
of any long Democratic ascendency.
NO PENSION LEGISLATION.
Washington, Nov. 29.-No federal
pension legislation Is expected at the
coming session of Congress. The most
important measure designed to remove
the restrictions that have kept many
widows of soldiers off the pension rolls
is upon the senate calendar: but Sena-
tor McCumber and other members of
the pensions committee are not in favor
of further consideration of the bill at
present. Widows who married soldiers
after June y, 1890, are now barred from
receiving pensions. The bill Is to re-
move this restriction and permit any
soldiers widow to receive the benefits
of the pension system. 1t would add
approximately s20,0000O0 to the pension
rolls. Thousands of private pension
ILLS are pending 1t Is expected thar
$500 to 5000 such bills will be passed