Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-12-04
Most Important Session Since
the Civil War is Free
Prediction
Tariff and Trusts viii be
Leading Subjects for
Legislation
TODAY IN CONGRESS.
TODAY IN CONGRESS.
The Senate.

The Senate.
Congress convened at noon. Com
mittee appointed to notify the pres
ident that congress was in session.
Senators Smith, of Georgia, and
Gardner, of Maine, were sworn in.
Senator Curtis elected to serve as
president protein till December IL.
Meeting hour fixed for P. M. daily.
Adjourned at 1917 till Tuesday, 3
p. NJ.
The House.
Convened at noon. Committee to
notify the president that congress
was in session, appointed. Repre-
sentative Littleton on point of per-
sonal privilege answered attacks on
him, charging him with being "steel
trust ally" Estimates amounting to
$745, ,S34,563 for the fiscal year sub
mitted at once for appropriation leg
islation.
A resolution Of coincidence on the
ceath of Representative Madison Of
Kansas was adopted.
The house adjourned at 2'1S p, m
EuL1l uUOu LOuOrTVW.
Representative Sulzei introduced a
joint resolution providing for the arbi-
tration Of the 1882 Treaty with Rus
sia.
Five new members were sworn in.
Scores of bills and resolutions were
including tho proposed re-
Peal Of the Sherman anti trust and Ca.
madam reciprocity laws.
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+ ures for the repeal Of the Cana =
+ dian reciprocity bill were offered q
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Both
houses Of the sixty-second congress
convened at noon today. Practical
ly every member was in his seat.
The galleries were crowded and hun
dreds of people were unable to gain
admission.
A speech by Representative Mar
tin w .Littleton, in which he as
sailed Henry B. Martin, secretary of
the anti trust league, and raped
William J. Bryan, was the sensation
al incident featuring the opening day
of congress.
There was nothing Of the spectac-
ular in the senate's program for the
day. Little interest was taken in
the proceedings, because of the live
ly scenes in the house.
Furry In House.
There was a furry in the house
Just before it was called to order,
caused by the distribution Of copies
of a local newspaper which feat
ured a mass meeting at which
Little and Young
were attacked by Henry R. Mar
tin, or the so-called American
antitrust league. A copy was
laid on the desk of each mem
Der of the house. Instantly Little
ton Indignantly rushed to the speak
er's Office and demanded to know by
what right these copies had been al
lowed distribution in the house
chamber. The copies were immedi-
ately ordered gathered UP and re-
moved from the house.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-"The most
important session since the Civil War"
S the prediction made by many demo-
.ratice leaders for the first regular ses-
,oin of the Sixty-second Congress which
opened today.
stirring days ahead" are forecast by
Republican members, and on both sides
If the big party line members In the
,ouse and senate are drawn up to fight
,ut weighty problems in legislation in
session that will lead up to the presi
lential campaign of 1872.
OF importance as to the bearing 1t Will
ave on the approaching political contest
n the nation; Of particular interest be-
.ause of party differences ana
Insurgents on the republican side, re-
lctionaries and progressives among the
democrats, and if unusual significance
because of the heavy legislative program,
t is at least certain that this viii be one
II the livliest sessions Of congress In
many years.
With the gavels falling In the house
md senate at noon, the tariffs and the
.rusts stood out as the most important
.uhiects for LEGISLATION with . big tight