The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-08-24
EXTRA SESSION Ct
SID CONGRESS FINDS
Results of Sess on Are Far
Short Of Program Outlined
at Outset.

| w lOA. 4G uOSL strenuous
session OF recent years has passed
into history. The net results OF the
extra session, in comparison with the
ambitious program adopted at the
| outset, were not large
| Canadian reciprocity was brought
as near reality as the executive and
legislative departments could advance
it; statehood was assured for New
Mexico and Arizona; campaign pub
iicity legislation was passed in form
satisfactory to its most ardent adj
| mfrers, and provision was made for
an enlarged House of Representative
based on the 1910 census.
| Democratic House, the first since
| 1895, attempted to make into laws
| the views of Democrats on tariff re-
vision, but executive disapproyal rem
| dered futile all their efforts.
All Tariff Bills Vetoed.
Two tariff bills, one materially re-
| ducing the duties on wool and wooden
goods of all classes, and the other
/ pacing on the free list articles of
machinery and tools used by farmers
and amended to include many other
1 items, were vetoed by President Taft
Hawley of Oregon and Humphrey
of Washington voted to sustain the
| president on both measures Lafferty
Of Oregon and French of Idaho, voted
to sustain the president on the wool
bill, but voted with the Democrats to
pass the free list bill over his veto
Washburton and La Toilette of Wash
| ington voted to override the veto OF
both measures.
A COT ton revision bill which carries
| as an amendment an iron and steel
schedule met a similar fate. The
House, under the leadership of Rep
resentative Underwood, of Alabama,
chairman of the ways and means
committee, and Speaker Clark, en-
deayored to pass the wooden and free
list bills over the veto, but the neces-
sary .two-thirds vote could not be
| mustered
Treaties Raise Issue.
General arbitration treaties with
Great Britain and France were sent
to the Senate by President Taft, but
they received a frigid welcome be-
cause the Upper House contended
that one provision of the treaties
usurps the Senate's constitutional
| prerogatives..
The resolution relating to popular
election of Senators was amended by
the Senate and was sent to confer
ence from which it cannot emerge
this session.
New Mexico and Arizona Admitted.
Yielding to the insistence of Presi-
dent Taft that the new constitution
of Arizona should not contain a pro-
vision providing for a recall of judges,
a new resolution providing for the ad-
mission CT Arizona and New Mexico.
with directions to omit the judiciary
recall from it's organic law, was
passed by both houses and will be
signed by President Taft.
1 The joint resolution provides for
| Arizona's admission with the consti-
tuition adopted by the convention of
July 20, 1910, and later ratified by the
Arizona voters, upon the "fundamen-
tai condition" that article of the
constitution relating to the recall of
public officers shall be held and con-
strued not to apply to judicial off.
GERS and that the Arizona people shall
give their assent 10 that construction
Secretary Wilson May Retire.
That DR.. Liberty H Bailey of New
York, one of the leading agriculturists
OF the United States and the man who
was named by President Roosevelt to
head the Country Life Commission, is
to be appointed secretary of agricul-
ture to succeed Secretary James Will
son Of Iowa, is the report which is in
circulation.
That Secretary Wilson's tenure of
office will be brief Is the conviction
that has settled down over Washing
ton. The revelations as to pure food
laws administration in the anti-Wiley
plot and the manner in which Score
tary McCabe has dominated the de-
partment SO as to bring discredit on
it, seem to make it impossible for the
president to keep him.
May Not Reprimand Wiley.
Opinion is strong here that Presi-
dent Taft is wavering in his determi-
nation to reprimand Dr. Harvey w.
Wiley, chief chemist, and instead, will
| advise Secretary Wilson to get rid of
Solicitor McCabe, his legal adviser,