The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-25
WANTS CONGRESS TO GO HOME
NEWLANDS ASKS FOR
A RECESS TO NOVEMBER.
Asks That q Budget Committee he Ap-
pointed to Clear the Ground on Se,.
eraI Questions 80 That the senate May
Avoid Delays ana .MOrc lnactiOn.

VESI NuthtbOTS w uat WV SfUutV .Vuy
Avoid Delays and 'MOrc lnaction.
WASHINGTON. July 24CSenator New
lands Of Nevada to-day proposed in a
Seuate resolution that Congress take a
recess Immediately following the COM
pletion Of the present Senate programme
until the first Monday in November.
His resolution proposed new legislative
programme to be considered in committee
during the interim.
Il, is clear that Congress cannot long
be held together" he said. "and the ques-
ton is whether to take a recess or to ad-
journ without a legislative programme
and repeat next winter the waste Of time.
inertia and inaction which has heretofore
characterized Senatorial procedure and
brought it under deserved condemnation. "
4 budget committee to supervise all
appropriation bills is one Of the reforms
proposed bv Senator Newlands. At the
beginning Of the present session he intro
duced resolution suggesting legis-
lative programme. Several of these
measures were included in the Democratic
House programme and have passed or
day has been fixed for vote.
Among the other measures urged by
Senator Newlands were bills roviding
for reductions in the military and naval
appropriations and river and harbor
| bill. During the recess he would have
the Senate committees consider the fol-
lowing subjects:
First Physical valuation of railroads
Second Creation OF an interstate trade
commission.
Third Plans for cooperation with in
div idual States in improving navigation
reclaiming swamp lands. building storage
reservoirs and similar plans for water im-
provement
Fourth-Curren legislation and the
| amendment OF the national banking laws.
Fifth Legislation affecting Alaska. in
! cluding construction q. a railroad from the
coast TO the Yukon River. and amendments
to the land laws 10 prov ide for develop.
ment and to defeat monopoly.
| Sixth-A change in the present naval pro-
| sramme and the building of auxiliary ships
! ia place OF fighting ships: such auxiliary
! ships to ne leased TO private corporations
! in times of peace and thus aid in extendine
| foreign commerce,
/ seventh Naturalization Of the Philippin.
Islands
Senator Newlands addressed the Snnat,
at some length IN support Of his resolu
ton.
Senator Cummns said he was willin.
| to turn aside from the discussion o.
tariff revision. which seemed so be un
fruitful Of promise. so far as the .presen
session of Congress was concerned and Il
discuss question which he considered o
vsstly more importance than the tsriff.
The regulation of combinations q
enterprise and capital TO the end Of check
ing the tendency toward monopoly, h
continued. is the most serious and vita
problem before the American Senate ant
tho American people.
The Senator said he favored the resoli
ton in the main, although he objected q
two of its provisions. After short re
cess. he said. Senators would return
invigorated in body and in bett r tempe
TO resume their important work.
When the hour of O'Clock was reache
Vice President Sherman laid before IN
senate the unfinished business. which a
: the bill for the revision of the woolls
schedule senator New lands asked tina
it be temporarily laid aside. but obJectio
was made 10y senator Smoot Of Utah
However senator tumnins, who he'll
the floor. continued his discussion of III
New lands resolution.
Advertng to the question Of tari
! revision Mr. Cummins said that Senator
! would shortly ba put on record as I
= whether they favored tarih reductions
= since amendments making suhstantl;
i reductions in all schedules of the PayI
law would be offered TO the farmers FRI
list bill when i. came up for a vote c
August |.
The regular order was then resumed