The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-21
FIRST SESSION
|. NEARING CLOSE
PREDICTIONS ARE THAT AD-
JOURNMENT WILL COME
TOMORROW NIGHT.
MANY BATTLES FOUGHT
Canadian Reciprocity Made Realiza-
tion as Far as This Country Is
Concerned--Tari Bills
Probes-In Investigation.

Washington, Aug. 2o.-Congress
will adjourn before Tuesday night.
possibly tomorrow. and the most
strenuous session of recent years
Twill pass into political history
!; The net results of the session In
/, comparison with the ambitious pro-
grammc adopted at the outset were
not large.
| Canadian reciprocity was brought
| as near reality as the executive and
4 Legislative department could ad-
vance II, statehood was assured for
New Mexico and Arizona, campaign
publicity legislation was enacted In
la form satisfactory to the most
earnest advocates, provision was
made for an enlarged house Of repre-
gentatiyes based on the latest CEN
sue and q few other measures OF
minor Importance were passed.
| A Democratic house, the first
since 1895. seized on this session as
a vehicle to convey to the country
the views of Democrats on tariff re-
| vision but executive dlsapproyal
| renders futile all efforts TO impress
those views on the statute book
| Two tariff bills, one materially
Producing the existing duties on
wool and woolen duties Of all classes
land the other placing on the free
Inst articles Of machinery of tools
Lnsed sby farmers and amended 70 In
cludc many other items were vetoed
| by President Taft
| He based his disapproval on the
grounds that the bills had not been
scientifically prepared and that
tariff revision should wait until re-
ports ON the different schedules had
been made by the tariff board
/ A cotton revision bill awaits
similar fate,
= The house. under the leadership
of Representative Underwood of
Alabama. chairman of the ways and
means committee and Speaker
Champ Clark endeavored to pass the
woolen and free list bills over the
veto but the necessary two-thirds
vote could not be mustered. These
failures were a strong factor In de-
termining the leaders to close the
session and it is not likely congress
would be In session to receive veto
to the cotton measure.
| Trust Investigations, without
number, were instituted during the
session and some of them, notably
those bearing on monopolles in steel
and suagr, for prosecuted with Wig
or. They are still in progress.
Constructive legislation, to bear
on federal regulation Of corpora
tions, is regarded as certain to some
from these inquiries.
Plans have already been lnsti-
tuted to revise the antitrust laws
Charges were revived that Sena-
tor William Lorimer of Illinois was
elected through bribery and sec
ond investigation by the senate was
put under way,
A senate inquiry into the election
of Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wis
consin was ordered.
General arbitration treaties with
Great Briton and France we're sent
to the senate by President Taft but
they received frigid welcome be-
cause the upper house contended
that one provision OF the treaties
usurped the senate's constitutional
prerogatiye.
Presentation of the treaties
strained hitherto cordial relations
between the foreign relations COM
mittee and the state department and
; as result President Taft made 1t
plain that an issue had been made
which he will carry to the country
in the hope of procuring ratification
when congress re-convenes.
Friction in the department OF
agriculture over the enforcement of
the pure food laws was aired by an
investigation and national issue
was raised over whether the ac-
tivities Of DR.. Harvey Wiley. the
. governments pure food expert. had
y been made effective.
Proceedings in the house under
cacus rule, led by Mr.. Underwood.
: precipitated sharp controversy be-
= tween Mr.. Underwood and William
jennings Bryan.