The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-02
CONGRESS To HAVE
VERY BUSY SESSION
Sixty-second Assembly Con
venes Monday-Trust
and Tariff Laws.

(NottOnal News Associatton)
WASHINGTON, Dec. with the
opening Of the first regular session Of
the sixty-second congress but two days
away senators and representatives who
have remained at their homes over
Thanksgiving day poured into the
capital on every train today.
AZ all OF the committee appoint
ments and other details of organiZa-
ton already have been completed.
there will be no work Of organization
called for on Monday. A little routine
business may be transacted in both
houses and then an adjournment will
be taken as "a further mark of re-
sDect" to the members who have died
during the recess OF congress. Tues
day Is likely to be devoted to read
ing OF President Taft's annual mes
cage. After that the lawmakers
should be able to get down to business
Immediately and for the next five or
six months, barring the time of re-
cess over the holidays, the country
can watch them thrust and parry and
internationally legislate.
That the session is likely to be an
unusually busy and important one is
generally admitted. The approach OF
the national elections and the bitter
rtvalries Of political parties will en-
nance the interest. The galleries will
have to listen to floods of strident po-
litical oratory delivered purely to
make good" with the constituents.
A flood of bills hitting at the trusts
will be introduced. Senator Pomerene
OF Ohio, will push his resolution to
put trust offenders in Jail, and Repre-
sentative Henry of Texas will intro
duce a similar measure in the house,
providing some other member does not
beat him to 1t"
While the lawmakers in nearly all
OF the states concluded some time ago
that anti-railroad legislation was no
longer profitable or advisable with q
view to the general interest, many of
the members of congress appear still
inclined to hold the roads responsible
for many of the ills with which the
country Is supposed to suffer. In their
opinion the time has not yet come to
lot up on the railroads.
Federal supervision Of railroads to
. greater extent than is now in force
will be proposed in many ways. More
power to the elbow of the Interstate
Commerce court is a favorite slogan to
the lawmakers. If the commerce court
shows a disposition to give the rail-
roads a sqaure deal. abolish it.
But the session will not be all bun
combe. There is no dearth Of import
ant measures awaiting consideration
some of great national concern. The
great appropriation bills will be fierce
ly fought over. In the house there
will be q mighty contest over federal
incorporation Of interstate commerce
Industrial corporations. The senate
will wrestle with the arbitration treat
les. and the lines will be sharply
drawn between the jingoists and the
peacemakers. Then there will be the
subject of conservation, also the i'm
portant question Of the tolls to be ex-
acted OF vessels passing through the
Panama canal.
Tariff revision. however. will be the
big subject of the entire session. The
tariff boards much-discussed report
on the wooden industry Is to be trans
mitted to congress soon after the OPP
ening. and the boards report on cot
ton will follow probably within a few
weeks. Besides the wool and cotton
schedules. n host of other provisions OF
the tariff law, including proposals to
thN Av,tf cst4 M fsarNS~
cotton machinery. chemicals, recipro-
cal free admission Of bituminous coal
across the Canadian border, ETC., will
figure in the tariff discussions.
All hands are agreed that some
thing is to be done" in the way Of re-
vision. and revision downward, Of some
OF the important schedules of the tar
III act. Even the President will be
expected to fall into line to make the