The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-05
TARIFF AND TRUSTS
THE BIG QUESTIONS
Most Important Session OF
Congress Since Civil War
in Session.
GREAT POLITICAL GAME
Democrats, Republicans and
Insurgents Looking for the
Best Of Ii Next Year.
GREAT POLITICAL GAM:

most important session since the ciVli
war is the prediction made by many
Democratic leaders for the first regu-
lar session OF the sixty'second CON
gress. which opened today
"Stiuing days ahead are io'e
castel by Republican members. and on
both sides OF the big party line mem
bers IN the house and senate arc
drawn up to fight out weiehty problems
of LEGISLATION in session that VIII
lead I'M to the presidential campaign
OF 1912, o.,
OF Importance as TO the bearing l,
viii have on the approaching poli'ica'
contest in the nation; OF particular in-
,ercst because Of party differences
repnIars ?ud insurgents on the hepuo'
lean side; reactioDarles ana PROFESS
ives amoug the Democrats-and OF uu
usual significance because OF the heaNS
Iopislarjvc program, 1T is at least Ger
MIN tbat this will be one of the live
licst sessions OF congress IN man
wears.
Tariff Comes First
With the eavels falling IN the house
and senate at noon. the tarltt and tue
trusts stool out as the most important
subjects Tor legislation with olg
fight assured in both houses. Many
other great questions confronting lnS
congress all Of them TO be aPproacheo
vigorously. include monetary ie'ui 9Th
rati6cat ,on OF arbitration treaties WIN
Great Britain aud France. and the loan
treaties with Nicaragua and Hohdu,
ras:-7A lasksu legislation, the election OF
senators bv direct vote of the people
pension bills and the regular ana per,
maneut annual appropriations, TO oe
under the direction this time III the
house by Democratic committee
While the legislative struggles are
m progress, politics is certain not 10
he overshadowed. With the Democrats
looking ahead with sanguine hope Tor
triumph AT the polls hcNt November,
and. insureeut Republicans striking out
in earnest TO capture their party con
yention if possible, every move MADE
i'm either branch of congress from now
until nd iournment will be thoroughly
considered from political as well as
legislative slandpoinis. The political
Dot in Washington will soon begin TO
boil.. with the Republican national
committee meeting here December II,
20 be followed January 5 by the Demo
cratic national committee. Selectoh
of convention cities. choosing of com
miftce chairmcn who VIII manage The
big campaigns and plans for the APP
Droschnp party conventions and the
subsequent battle of the ballots, VIII
attract as much attention from the ma.
tion's legislators as will the making Of
the nation 9 laws.
Candidates for President
10 enlivcn the political interest in
both houses. there arc candidates for
the presidency casting their shadows
across the horizon.
Champ Clark. the speaker Of the
house. already considered among the
Democratic possibilities, may at any
time make presidential pronouncement
10 his colleagues. and Representative
Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, the
Democratic floor leader. also is talked
OF throughout the country as presiden
tial timber.
In The senate. Mr. La Toilette al.
ready has been proclaimed bv progress
i've Republicans as their choice TO
wrcst the nomination from Mr.. Taft.
In the house the political interest
will be further complicated by the at
titudc Of Mr.. Bryan who has quarreled
with Mr.. Underwood and branded him
81 reactionarv. and now crltlciscs
Speaker Clark in what many Demo.
Gratis declare is an effort to cause IL
breach between the speaker and the
ma iortv leader Of fhe house.
The tariff legislative program will
tanfi board. which IS expected 10 sub
nit the result of les Investigations on
wool and cnttop before The holidays.
The WAYS and means committee of the
house. boNeyer. under the direction of
Chairman Underwood, viii begin at
once THE preparation OF new taritf
bills Throughout the recess force
of clerks anil experts hS been At work
preparing for The committee.
Taft's Pledge.
President Taft hes given his pledge
that when the tariff board submits It's
report or the wooden and cotton sched.
uIes IT will he his pleasure to make
tariff recommendations 10 congress
The subject will be treated in A special
message.
Meantime. however. the vays and
means committee will begin preparation
Of revised schedules TO include wool,
cotton, iron and steel products. sugar
and other foodstuffs. IN important
schedule 10 come up Is the sugar
schedule. and in dealing with this the
house aud the WAYS and means com
mittee viii be guided somewhat by the
report of the special committee of in
auiry into the American Sugar Refining
company. which is expected TO report
carly in the session,
Conspicuous in the records Of tho
congress will he the coming vigorous
trust debates. The hgbt TO amend che
sherman antitrust law already is on.
In The house the question will be first
considered by the committee on ju-
dietary. This committee has deter
mined also 10 report bills amending the
Injunction statutes and the contempt
statutes the latter to include provision
for trial bv jury IN cases of indirect
contempt These will be pressed for
passage before adjournment.
The committee has in hand half dozen
bills profiding mendments 10 the Shar-
man antitrust law. Tho most recent
bill was drafted by Representative Henry
Of Texas. providing for reuitentiary terms
FOR violstors Of the trust laws and de
signed 10 eliminate from the Sherman
nv the rule OF reason ss interpreted
is the supreme court. Some sort Of bill
~ certain 70 come from the committee
nearing on this problem. In the senate
the trust question Is under consideration
IN the hearings before tho COMMITTEES OF
interstate commerce which VIII continue
FOR GONE time.
In line with the trust question will bs
Tho determination or the fate 81 tho Ious,
special committee OF inquiry into ih'
nitod States Steel corporation The