The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-12-08
NATIONAL S0LONS
ARE AT WORK AGAIN
CONGRESS Assemblies for Its
Winter Session.
Demand for Further Regulation of the
Trusts-Senator Shelly M. Gull
Iorn of Illinois Has Much
Work Planned.

Important legislation will be the
product of the Sixty Second congress
| at it's winter session, just opened.
Republican and Democratic leaders
agree as to the necessity of legislation
covering a number of important sub
jects and say that the only possibility
of failure of achievement lies in dis
agreement over details.
For example, the demand for fur
Their regulation of the trusts is unani-
nous, but cle Democrats and many of
the progressives want to amend the
Sherman law, while the administration
Republicans merely wish to supple
ment it with federal incorporation and
other legislation.
Senator CuIlOm of Illinois has map
ped out an extensive program for con-
sideration, including trust legislation.
the tariff, finance, conservation, and
other matters of an internal character,
and ratification of the peace treaties
with Great Britain and France, and
the loan treaties with Nicaragua and
Honduras.
Senator Cullom is chairman of the
steering committee of the senate, which
will determine upon the program or
legislation as we'll as chairman of the
Republican caucus and the committee
of foreign relations, and is the rank
ing member of the committee on
finance and interstate commerce. Con
sequently he is in position to weld
large influence upon the questions
which will be considered.
Just at noon almost 500 senators
and representative assembled in the
capitol at the opening Of the first reg
ular session of congress that bids fair
to go down in history as one OF the
most strenuous sessions on record.
This is the complexion at present OF
the Sixty-Second congress:
Senate Republicans, 40; Demo
Gratis, AZ; vacancy, 1 (Colorado.)
House-Democrats, 227: Republic
ans, 1911 Socialist, !; Independent. /:
vacancy, 1 Seventh Kansas district)
Chief interest in the house of repre-
sentatives centered in the speech of
Representative Martin W. Littleton of
New York, denouncing Henry B. Mar
tin secretary of the Antitrust league,
whom he said had circulated false
hoods concerning his attitude on the
steel trust committee. Mr.. Martin ac-
cUsed Mr. Litt!eton of being trust
ally"
Both houses appointed committees
to call upon the president and notify
him that congress is in session Each
branch also appointed another COM
mittee to notify the other house that
it is in readiness to proceed with leg
islative business Two new senators
and five new representatives were
ready to be sworn.
The capitol was spick and span in
readiness for the session. A small
army of employees has been at work
during the recess repairing and re-
finishing the two chambers and the
host of committee rooms in the main
building, and the two immense office
buildings.
Congress, after the first formal
meeting. will plunge into work.
Speaker Clark has been in Washing,
ton several days and has announced
that he expects long session and the
busiest in many years. An early eau
Gus of house majority, will be called.
The tariff, trust, Panama canal, cur.
rency reform and appropriation bills
will be conspicuous factors of the ses-
sion'S legislation