Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-01-06
CONGRESS- BEGINS
WGRkIA EARNEST
WITH HOLIDAYS OVER MEMBERS
WILL LABOR FOR EARLY
ADJOURNMENT.
PLANS TO PUSH SUPPLY BILL
Senate Not So Far Advanced in Its
Work as the House, Will Hold
Short Daily Sessions and
Long Recesses.

Washington, ID. C.-Congress will
begin business in earnest this week.
With the Christmas holidays behind
them and with the preliminary ante
holiday plans completed, both houses
will start in upon reconvening with
the intention of keeping their hands
to the pillow, to continue until "the
crop is laid by" which it is now be-
lieved will take place in the early
summer.
The senate is not SO forward with
its work as is the house, and the for
mer body may experience difficulty
in finding something to do during the
first few days of it's sitting. But the
house calendar is already well filled,
and as soon as the formalities per.
NIT that body will get down to serious
business. Both houses reconvened
at ~ o'clock, noon, Tuesday, but the
announcement of the recent death
of Senator McLaurin of Mississippi re-
suited in adjournment of both for the
day out of respect to his memory.
Supply Bills Well Advanced.
Wednesday will be calendar day in
the house, and that body will ltake up
the Mann bill for the reorganization
of the government Of the Panama
canal zone. 1t is believed this measure
will be disposed of in one days time,
and with it out of the way the house
will attack the appropriation bills.
The army supply bill is already on
the calendar, and by the time it is
passed the Notifications bill will be
ready for consideration. After the fort
ifcations measure will come the ur-
gent deficiency, the agricultural and
the navy bills. Even the sundry bill
and the legislative bills are we'll
blocked out in committee.
Indeed, appropriation legislation is
further advanced in the house than
ordinarily at this session, and it is
the opinion of the experts that the sup
ply bills will be so rapidly turned
out by the committe as to render 1t
possible for the house to give almost
continuous attention to them during
the next two months.
The senate committee on a%ppropria-
tons will begin soon the consideration
Of the bill making appropriations for
the District of Columbia, which al
ready has passed the house, and un-
til it is reported the senate will oc.
cupy its time with the consideration
of comparatively %unimportant measur-
es on the calendar.
The senate committees have not
been so insidous in their attention to
the business as the coordinate body,
with the consequence mat the senate
calendar is almost completely barren.
For the present short daily sessions,
with adiournments every week from
Thursday until Monday, may be ex-
pected.
There is division of opinion as to
whether anything will be accomplished
in the way of modifying the Sherman
law during the present session, but
everybody is concerned over the terms
of the presidents treatment of the
subject, and his message will be read
with unusual interest.
On the other hand, it is generally
understood that the Jones and Hum.
phrey resolutions will be adopted by
both bodies and that the investigation
will be entered upon in short order.