The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-16
House Has Little on the Program
Now Except Wool Schedule
and djournment Talk
is Heard
MEMBERS WOULD LIKE RECESS
Senate May Not Touch Free List Prop
osition at This Session. No Break
Yet at Hand in the Gal
inger Deadlock.

Washington. May 16.-Although the
special session Of congress is but little
more than a month OLD, talk o' ad-
journment has already become gen
eral. Republicans in both branches
have been limiting that a recess dur
ing the hot months would not inter-
fere with legislation, while many DEM
ocrats in the house are beginning to
believe they will be through with all
they care to enact of their legislative
program in another month.
High temperature experienced last
week in Washington served to stimu-
late in the democratic representatives
more interest in summer resort mat
ters than in tariff questions. For sew
eral days they have been considering
the possibility of getting through for
the summer by June Is.
The house expects to have before 1t
the revised wooden schedule within a
week or ten days. There has been
much missionary work during the last
week to unite the factions for an agree
ment on n revision in the nature of a
compromise which will be between the
advocates Of revenue tariff on free
wool and the champions of on duty on
raw wool. While many democrats
have openly declared for free raw
wool. all have agreed to abide by the
caucus decision.
Little Before House.
The democrats believe the house can
dispose of this without much delay
and some of them urge that this end
initiative legislation for the session
outside of that feature of the tarin
with perhaps some revision of the cot
ton schedule there is little before the
house. The caucus decided a month
ago to make this a tariff session.
When the house meets Tuesday
there is nothing to come before IL ex-
cept some inquiry resolutions. The
democratic majority intends To ward
off being drawn into discussion of gen.
eral legislation by consideration of the
discharge calendar which is loaded by
| the ItDuDlltdllS Will many
blocks Twice they have lodged the
calendar and have announced that they
believe il can be successfully avoided
I'm the future.
To Pass Up Free List.
| Though the democratic free list bill
probably will not be passed by tn,
senate, II may not be considered at all
the democratic leaders insist they have
demonstrated to the people that IN
passing that measure their intention
were good, and that IL will not be nee
essary for them to insist on remaining
i'm session to await action on 1t b!
the senate. The reciprocity bin the,
expect the senate to pass within
month, and then all that Presiden
Taft asked of the extraordinary ses
sion will have been disposed of. Tn
senate, they believe, will then be read.
to go home. Meantime the house will
consider such matters as army reor
ganizatlon. labor legislation and reform
In the civil service.
In the senate hearings will continu
this week DeIOre tne nniince coifhlitte
on the Canadian reciprocity bill am
on the floor the fight over the elec
tlon of a president pro TEN to sue
ceed Senator Frye will be resumed
Representatives of the regular and In
surgent republicans insist there will b
no break in the deadlock. The opposi
ton of the progressives to Senate
Gallinger will hold intact, 1t Is de
clared. and the stalwarts will not yiei
TO agree on some other candidate.
Discussion in the senate on the bi
passed by the house on the popula
election of United States senators ma
come up during the week, Senate
Borah intending to call up the measur
at the earliest opportunity.