The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-07
62ND SESSION OF
CONGRESS CONvENES
Regular Session Opened Mon
day With Prospects of Pro-
tracted Meeting.


opened Monday. Having perfected it's
organization when it met in extraor-
binary session last spring, Congress
was ready to begin work.
Democrats, Republican Insurgents
and Republican Standpatters all adj
NIT that the session, on the eve OF
the presidential campaign, will be bit
ter and protracted.
There are few who think that the
session will end before next June. A
great game of politics, with each side
sparring for advantage, is to be
played, and nothing except the near
approach of the national conventions
and the necessity for fence building"
will cause the legislators to cease
their labors at the national capitol.
President Upholds Sherman Law.
President Taft in his message stat
ed that, owing to the number of i'm
portant subjects calling for comment,
it was impossible to include discus
sion of them in one message of rea-
sonable length and, therefore, he
would transmit a series of messages
between the opening of Congress and
the adjournment for the Christmas
holidays.
His first message dealt with anti.
trust legislation. The President stated
that he was strongly opposed to the
repeal or amendment of the Sherman
law, and suggested that the law
should be strengthened by supplement
tai legislation. He urged the enact
ment of some sort of federal incorpor-
alton act and the creation of federal
corporation commission.
Must Do Over Extra Session Work.
Much of the work OF the extra ses-
sion which President Taft called in
order to pass the Canadian reciprocity
agreement, must be done over again.
The President vetoed the tariff revi
sion bills passed by the Democrats
and the Republican Insurgents, and
both factions are armed for the fray
once more.
The Democrats have a good work.
ing majority in the House, and the
important bills on their program will
be passed quickly.
To ri
legislation are the two items of gen.
eral interest standing out from the
rest in the line of serious business
AS soon as President Taft sends in his
tariff message, following the report
+ made to him by the tariff board, the
Democrats Of the ways and means
committee will shape their program
It is practically assured that whatever
the ways and means committee puts
forward, whether wholly en- rapport
with the tariff board findings or not
will pass the House.
Many Tariff Bills Coming.
The probability is that there will
be series of measures revising vari
Gus schedules in conformity with the
plan followed last summer. The real
tariff fight will follow in the Senate
with the result uncertain now and
with the impending complications
Wearying to contemplate in view of
the balance of power held by the In
surgents and the lack of harmony in
the ranks of the Senate Democrats.
The corporation legislative prob
lem Is even more Vexing than that
pertaining to the tariff The Presi-
dent and his friends are hopeful that
nonpartisan public sentiment will
force the parties to cooperate and
place a federal corporation law on
the statute books.
Panama Canal Legislation.
The coming session is expected to
develop the first legislation for the
operation, maintenance and govern
ment of the Panama canal and the
canal zone. Everything that Congress
has done in the past regarding the
great artificial waterway has been di-
rected toward construction. The
question of tolls for use of the canal
and its permanent fortification are
two of the big subjects that it is ex-
pected will be embodied in legislation
introduced during the session. It is
not believed, however, that much leg
islation will be passed on the future
of the canal, it being attempted large
ly as formative precaution to test
the sentiment toward the different
plans suggested.
VIII Do Little Before Holidays.
But little constructive legislation is
expected before the Christmas hell
days. After the reading of the Presi-
dents annual message both houses
settled down fO fho Naturalization of