The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-11
REAL WORK WILL
 BEGIN THIS WEEK The Senate Marking Time at
 Present UNDERWOOD TALKS
Champ Clark May Attend Sessions of Ways and Means Committee to Aid in the Work of Tar
 if Reduction

Washington, December 10.-tSpecial)- During the first week of it's session the democratic House passed bill aiming a blow at the tobacco trust. This action may forecast the character of the legisla- ton to be enacted, or at least discussed, at the session which has now opened.
 The bill authorizes the census bureau to ascertain every six months the quantity Of leaf tobacco held in storeage ware houses. It is in the interests of the to- bacco growers and is designed to prevent corner or monopoly of leaf tobacco by the manufacturers.
 Following action on this bill the demo- cratic leaders threw into the House the Sherwood service pension bill. which grants to veterans of the civil war grad uated pensions up to $l a day. This bill is to pass the House before the end Of next week. After that will come num- local importance. The important legisa- ton of the session will come after New Year.
 Chairman Underwood announces he will be ready with some of the important tariff revision bills immediately after the holidays. He will bring forth the wool, cotton and steel revision bills in the order named. He cannot tell until he has sean the Presidents message on wool and cotton tariffs what the democratic bills will be. The general impression in the House is that there will be little change, if any in the new bills to pre- sented by the democrats of the ways and means committed. from the revision bills presented at the last session.
 Speaker Champ Clark is pressing for action by the democrats on all measures to be supported by the democrats at the coming session of Congress. He says there is much to be done, and he does not want the democrats to be charged with the responsibility for failure to pass legislation desired by local com munties.
 The ways and means committee will meet the coming week and take up work on all the important schedules of the tariff An innovation will be that the speaker may attend the sessions of the commmittee to give it's members the benefit of his judgment and experience or tariff legislation. For many years, under republican control of the commit tee. Speaker Clark was the ranking dem- ocratic member. and he has fought the QeInOcIdlIf ISIl TUT lOW tdlillo III tiiC House for years.
 The Senate has been marking time dur ing the past week and will continue to do so until the House shall have sent across some bills which the Senate thinks worth it's time to consider Up to the present the Senate has been busy considering nominations by the Presi- dent. and going over the presidential messages on, trusts and foreign affairs
 Mcst of the committees of the House will get busy next week. The commit tee on interstate and foreign commerce, Chairman Adamson, left New York to- day to inspect the Panama canal. This commmittee will have charge of the leg islation, fixing the tolls and enacting the regulations governing the Panama zone The members of the committee desire to see for themselves whether the progress of the canal warrants the claim that tolls should be established at this time.
 The Stanley oteel investigating commit tee will resume it's hearings Monday on the work of the Steel corporation in- vestiga ton. and Andrew Carnegie is ex- pected to testify before the committee during the week.
 The committee on expenditures in the department of the interior will take up questions involving the work of the reclamation service and probably with reference to the Roosevelt dam in Arizona for the reclamation of lands in that coun- try Colonel Roosevelt is said to have urged this work to be done, and it is now charged that the Southern Pacific railroad is the only beneficiary of the project that cost many millions and forced the issuance of s20OO0,00O of bonds by the government, that the reclamation service might not become bankrupt.