The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-08-24
EXTRA SESSION OF
62D CONGRESS ENDS
Results of Session Are Far
Short Of Program Outlined
at Outset.

as near reality as the executive and
legislative departments could advance
1t; statehood was assured for New
Mexico and Arizona; campaign pub
licity legislation was passed in form
satisfactory to its most ardent ad-
mirers, and provision was made for
an enlarged House of Representatives
based on the 1910 census.
A Democratic House, the first since
1895, attempted to make into laws
the views of Democrats on tariff re-
vision, but executive disapproval 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
items, were vetoed by President Taft.
Hawley of Oregon and Humphrey
of Washington voted to sustain the
president on both measures. Lanerty
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 cotton revision bill which carries
as an amendment an iron and steel
schedule met similar fate. The
House, under the leadership of Rep
resentative Underwood, Of Alabama.
chairman of the ways and means
committee, and Speaker Clark, en-
deavored 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 of Arizona and New Mexico,
with directions to omit the judiciary
recall from its organic law. was
passed by both houses and will be
signed by President Taft.
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 to that construction
Secretary Wilson May Retire.
That DR.. Liberty H. Bailey of New
York, one of the leading agriculturisti
of the United States and the man who
was named by President Roosevelt ia
head the Country Life Commission, ii
to be appointed secretary Of agricul
ture to succeed Secretary James vii
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 Secre
tary McCabe has dominated the de
partment so as to bring discredit or
it. seem to make II 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
who curbed the pure food specialist
II this happens. the president will
likely turn the enforcement OF thu
lood and drugs act over to DR.. Wiley
Publicity Bill Signed BY TAFT.
President Taft signed the cam
paign publicity bill. 1t provides fol
complete publicity Of campaign expen
ditures by candidates for both ths
House and Senate before election.
and limits the amount which may b
spent in a single campaign to $50ot
for a candidate for the House ant