The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-29
House Busy With Probes of the Alleged Steel and
 Sugar Trusts
SENATE TO VOTE ON
 LORIMER CASE TODAY
Steel Trust Investigation Will Be Resumed With Other Important Witnesses on Stand-Wool
 Tariff Due Friday

Washington May 8.-Investigations Of the Steel trust. the sugar trust, and tho expenditures and methods of government departments will comprise all the sctiv- lties of the House of Representatives during inc early part of the week. With the democratic wool tariff bill promised for Friday. the House will hold no impor- tant sessions until then; and investi- Gating committees will have opportunity to punish important inquiries that were started last week. The Lorimer case probably will come to vote in the Sem ate Monday as to the method to he adopted In making another investigation of the Illinois senatorial election. The LaFollette resolution 10 name a special committee and the Martin and Dillingham; substitutes leaving the inquiry to the reg ular Senate committee on privileges and elections, are before that body for fur ther debate tomorrow, and efforts are be- ing made to have the subject disposed of before the days adjournment.
 The steel trust investigation, which be- gan with John ". Gates on the stand Saturday, will be retnmed Tuesday with El- B. Gary of the United States Steel cor poration board being among those sum- moned. The sugar trust committee will meet Thursday to take up it's work. The committees that are to investigate the department of justice and the department of commerce and labor are to meet to- morrow, while the committee investigat- ing the postofflce department will con- tnue its sessions.
 House Idle Until Thursday
 At the House end of the capitol there will be no general rallying of democratic forces until Thursday, when the wool tariff comes before the full democratic caucus. This Is expected to be the first note of the hard fight that is to follow on the revision of the wool schedules
 Tho wool bill is expected to be in- troduced in the House Friday, and the tariff debate will open the following week.
 While there is much free wool sentf- ment among the House de.nocrats tn a party leaders are confidenIs that the revenue bill drafted by the Ms and means committee will be- 4 the caucus. zf
 The House has almost completed t<e special programme to which it limited itself after President Taft had called the extra session to consider the Can- adian reciprocity agreement and the Senate has not acted upon the first legislative bill of importance.
 President Taft Is reported hopeful that majority of the Senate can be rallied now to adopt the Canadian agreement as it comes from the House, but when that hoped-for majority will get an opportunity to assert itself still Is as uncertain as the length of the present session.
 The Senate finance committee has but few more witnesses to appear before 1t on the reciprocity measure. When 1t is ready to report many sen tors have predicted. 1t will submit the bill without recommendation as was done at the last session. Reciprocity advocates hope 1t will he reported with out amendment.
 fhe democratic House leaders have threatened to demand vote on their tariff measures in the Senate but 1t IS declared on substantial authority that if the Senate indicates clearly that 1t will not consider tho tariff bills during the extra session the House will not demand continuation of sweltering process to force action at this time.