The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-04-07
ALL EYES ARE
ON CONGRESS
Speculations on What Will
be Done.
Byran is Keeping Close Watch
on Affairs at Wash
ington.


national Congress is again in session
Sof the present administration. Specu-
lation as to what Congress will do is
varied. tits thought that the admins
tration would be more than pleas
ed if the Congress would ratify the
reciprocity agreement with Canada
and adjourn, but the Democrats who
now control the lower house have a
much more ambitious program and
indeed there are tariff reforms that
cannot be enacted too soon. The
period between the adjournment on
the Attn of March and the 4th of April
has been full of interest. The sud
den mobilization of the army and
its establishment of the border has
been the subject of discussion
throughout the length and breadth of
the land. The Ultimate purpose of the
administration is not known, but pre-
paration for any emergency is the
highest wisdom in national affairs.
1t is reported that large contingent
force now on the Mexican border will
Ssail in few days for Honolulu. 1t
is known that American interests in
Mexico demand a strong American
force near that perturbed territory.
1t is expected that there will be
no little presidential electioneering
and maneuvering in Washington dur
ing the present extra session. 1t is
significant that the Bryan influence
has been considerably strengthened in
both houses of Congress-, both by
elimination and addition since March
4th. Many of his friends have been
added are NO longer in power in Was
ington. 1t is not thought that Mr..
Bryan expects to do more than influ-
ence the nomination of Democratic
candidate. 1t is thought that he ia
vors Wilson Of New Jersey. 1t is
known that he does not favor Har-
mon of Ohio. Champ Clark the Dem
ocratic Speaker has been talked of
as a presidential possibility, but he |
has talked so much himself and so
imprudently in his long and mediocre
POLITICAL career that it is doubtful If |
he will be considered as an available
candidate by those of the party with
whom Judgment prevails. La Toilette
of Wisconsin is much talked of as
the probable Republican nominee for
the presidency, and the race now is
supposed to lie between him, Taft
and Roosevelt. Senator La Toilette
Is conspicuous for his criticism of
the transfer of the army 10 the Mex
lean border. He denounces 1t as UNI
necessary and as an extravagant waste
of public funds, but it is probable
that the figures will demonstrate that
the army can be as easily maintain
ed along the Rio Grande as at the
various stations from which it was
entrained and surely the experience OF
and the exercise of camp
life cannot do otherwise than i'm
prove the efficiency and esprit-du-
corps of a force doubtless ener-
waited by long inactivity There was
the same necessity for moving the
army that there was in the last year
Of Roosevelt's administration to send
the navy to sea and round the world,
and possibly other reasons that Sena-
tor La Toilette and some Others have
not yet found out
There is much speculation with
reference to coming legislation and
10 the length OF time that Congress
will be In extra session. 1t may be
that there win not be an adjournmsn
until late In the summer The situa-
lion is full of interest and expstaticon
e On tiDtoe awaiting events.