Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-03-09

ton of the countrys natural re-
Lighthouse service; amendment Of tho
employers liability act; supplemental
safety appliance act; measures re-
curing the reporting OF accidents on
railroads to the Interstate Commerce
commission: sweeping amendments 90
the interstate commerce act; legisla-
ton to suppress the white slave traf-
fee, in accordance with reports of
senator Dillinshams commission on
immigration: the creation OF a United
states Customs Court; provision for
the most extensive census evor taken:
provision for American ownership of
our embassies and consular buildings
abroad; provision for forest reserves
in southern Appalachian and white
Mountains; provisions for the inspec-
ton Of boilers or railroad locomotives:
PROVISION for an income tax amend
mont to the constitution. new treaty
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ratification of a Pan-Amcrican arSt-
tration treaty: provision for nearly
600 new federal buildings; provision
for the forthcation OF tho Panama
anal; provision for the codldcatior
Of the criminal law; revision of the
law relating to trade marks: the
omnibus claims bin minus provision
for the French spoilatlon claims;
measure for the construction of two
ha,tleships; approval Of the rev CON
stitution OF Now Mexico, appropria-
ton OF 100000 for n Lincoln me-
mortal; passage OF the river and har-
lor bill with provision for the in
crease in tho army engineer corps:
awarding Of tie Panama canal ex~
position to san Francisco; various
measures relating to banking and
! finance, and the general appropria-
ton bills
| The Slxty-First Congress also had
an extra session, which resulted in
Che framing of the Payne-Aldrich tar
if act with its maximum and MINI
mum features and corporation tax
provisions strangely enough that
/ act was the beginning of the sixty
FRS, Congress and the end of some
Of it's members
This Congress left urdone num-
Der of things. among the measures
ject, a constitutional amendment look
ing to the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the people;
g ship subsidy bill, congressional re-
apportionment increasing the mem
bership of the House to 433; the Sullo-
way pension bill adding $4,000. 600 to
the list; measure to secure higher
rates of postage for the advertising
parts of magazines; the bill to incor-
international peace, and the bill for a
permanent tariff board
The Sixty-First Congress will be
known in history as that body in
which our national legislature broke
up into factions, similar to those OBJ
tanning In most foreign parliamentary
| bodies, as contrasted with the great
party divisions which have prevailed
with slight exception from the begin
| nj Do ji.. a
MS never before. and the adminstra
ton support has al times contained
as many democrats as Republicans.
while republican insurgents have acc
cd with the democrats almost as often
IS with the republican regulars.
he late Congress will also be
known to fame as that which de-
crowned and re-croVned "Czar' Can
non in succession with regularity
that We'd with that of The congression-
al clock. The House rules remain
revolutionized, and even more. for
tho democratic House VIII have a
committee on committees somewha.
similar to that which has prevailed
IN ;hc senate, with INC speaker pra"-
tically eliminated except as presiding
oTlcer. The sixty First Congress
thus witnessed parliamentary as we'll
as political revolution and It's sessions
that would MAKE Cor srcsa more Of 4