The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1911-09-30
Little to Show as Concrete
Results Of Special Session
Tariff Bills, Direct Elec-
ton of Senators and
Arbitration Do Not

Viva Va SSsAosVAS 0AAS
Arbitration Do Not &
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the committee on census, April %; re
ported to the senate July 9; passed the
senate Aug. 8; senate bill concurred In
by the house Aug. a; signed by the
president Aug. 8.
Political Reform Measures.
Resolution Providing for the Direct
Election Of Observation-Disclosures In
the house April 8; reported to the house
April II; passed the house April ID; re
ceived by the senate and referred to
the committee on the judiciary Apri!
II; reported to the senate May 1; pass
ed the senate June II; senate confer
ees appointed June 81; house confer
ees appointed July 8. This resolution
Ia still In conference.
Publicity Of Campaign Funds.-Entro
duced in the house April 10; reported
to the house April Ia; passed by the
house April IA; received by the senate
and referred to the committee on priv.
ileges and elections April Is; reported
to the senate June 10; passed by the
senate July II; house conferees ap
pointed Aug. 1; senate conferees ap.
pointed Aug. 2; conference report
agreed to by the senate Aug. 16; by
the house Aug. II. Signed by the
president Aug. 10.
OF the important legislation or leg.
islative action remaining the senate
has not acted upon the arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and
France, which were reported to the
senate on Aug. IL.
The bone of contention In the bill
for direct election Of senators Is the
senate amendment placing senatorial
elections under federal control. This
is the same amendment which defeat.
ed 1t in the previous congress.
The chief difficulty in the way OF
the arbitration treaties is the desire
Of the senate to retain It's control over
what shall be arbitrated and to ex-
empt certain matters from arbitration
such as the Monroe doctrine and the
admission Of Asiatics into the United
States.
The reason for the first veto Of the
statehood bill, as already intimated,
was the recall Of Judges feature In the
Arizona constitution. This was elimi
mated in the second bill.
Waiting For Tariff Board.
The chief reasons assigned by Presi.
dent Taft for the veto Of the tariff bills
were that they were not scientifically
and carefully drawn, that they were
not in harmony with the protective
principle and that the tariff board had
not yet reported. He promised that
before the next session the board
would report as to the wool schedule
and that he would then recommend
revision In accordance with such re-
port.
Trust Investigations were begun dur.
ing the session, and they are still In
progress. Constructive legislation to
bear on federal regulation of corpora,
lions Is regarded as certain to come
as a result Of the inquiries, and plans
already have been instituted to revise
the antitrust laws.
Special investigations into the Unit.
ed States Steel corporation and the
American Sugar Refining company
were undertaken to discover whether
these Industrial organizations operated
In violation of the antitrust and In
terstate commerce laws. The inqui'
ries have been exhaustive and still
are in progress though the sugar com
mittee, headed by Representative
Hardwick of Georgia, practically has
concluded its work and will meet In
the fall to draft its report.
The Steel corporation inquiry devel
oped many interesting facts, but the
predominant feature of the inquiry
was the emphatic public declarations
Of great fnanciers that the Sherman
antitrust law is too archaic to deal
with modern business methods. Thag
insisted that there must be new leg
islation to regulate the corporations
Of the country.
Chairman Stanley Of Kentucky plans
to resume taking testimony In the fall
and hopes to have as witnesses An
drew Carnegie and j. Pierpont Nor
gan. Among the prominent men wht
testified at great length before the
committee are former President Roose
Welt, Judge q. II. Gary, chairman o.
the board Of directors Of the stee
corporation: John w. Gates. since de
ceased; Grant b., schley, Charles NJ
Schwab, George w. Perkins, Levi
Cass Ledyard, L. @. Hanna and Oak
leigh Thorne. Colonel Roosevelt vo
unfairly appeared before the com
mittee in New York to defend hi
!, course in approving the absorption o
the Tennessee Coal and Iron compan
! by the Steel corporation during tn
} financial panic of 1907.
During the inquiry Judge Gary mad
!, the startling proposal that the govern
; ment be given control Of great corpo
rations, even to the extent OF regulat
ing prices. His assertion that TIT