The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-08-21
TUESDAY NIGHT At OUTSIDE
-pERHAPs MoNDAY-WiLL
SEE ADJOURNMENT.
NET RESULTS ARE SMALL
In Comparison With Ambitious Pro.
gram, Legislative Assembly Accom-
plishes little-Exseutivs Disapprevai
Renders Futile Democratic Plans Of
Revision Of Tariff.

washington, Aug. 20.--Congress will
adjourn before Tuesday night-pos-
slbly tomorrow-and the most strenu.
GUS session Of recent years viii pass
into history. The net results of the
extra session. In comparison with the
ambitious program adopted at the out
set. were not large.
Canadian reciprocity was brought
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 enacted in a
form satisfactory to It's most earnest
advocates; provision was made for an
enlarged house of representatives,
based on the latest census, and a few
other measures of minor Importance
We're passed.
democratic house. the first since
1895. seized on this session as a vehicle
to convey to the country the views of
democrats on tariff revision, but ex-
ecutive disapproval rendered futile all
efforts to impress those views on the
statute books
Two tariff bills. one materially re-
ducing the duties ON wool and wooden
goods or all classes. and the other
| placing on the free list articles OF ma
chinery and tools used by farmers and
amended to include many other items,
were vetoed by President Taft. A
cotton revision bill awaits a similar
| fate.
Vstoes.
| The house, under the leadership of
Representative Underwood OF Ala
bama. 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. These failures to over
throw President Tafts veto were a
strong factor In determining leaders
to close the session and It Is not
likely that congress will be In session
to receive the veto Of the cotton
measure.
Trust Investigations without num-
ber were instituted during the session
and some of them, notably those bear
Ing on monopolies In steel and sugar
were prosecuted with vigor. They still
are In progress.
Constructive legislation to bear on
federal regulation of corporations IL
regarded as certain to come from
these Inquiries. Plans already have
been Instituted to revive the anti
trust laws
Charges were revived that Senate,
Lorimer OF Illinois was elected through
bribery and a second investigation b,
the senate was put under way. A
senate inquiry into the election OF
Senator Stephenson OF Wisconsin wa,
ordered.
Welcome Frisid.
General arbitration treaties will
Great Britain and France were sent I,
the senate by President Taft, but the,
! received frigid welcome. because tn,
upper house contended that one pro
vision of the treaties usurps the sen
ates constitutional prerogatives.
Presentation of the treaties stralne,
hitherto cordial relations between tn
foreign relations committee and tn
state department.; and. as result
President Taft made II plain that al
issue had been raised which he vii
carry to the country.
Friction In the department of agrl
culture over the enforcement OF tn
pure food laws was revealed by an in
vestlgation and tho national issue wa
, raised over whether the activities q
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the govern
ment's pure food expert, had been in
, effective.
, Proceedings In the house under eau
} Gus rule, led by Mr.. Underwood, pre-
cipitated sharp controversy betwee
Mr.. Underwood and William j. Bryan
Mr.. Bryan was aroused because {
failure Of the house caucus to includ
In It's tariff program at the outset tn
revision of the iron and steel sched
ules. He attacked Mr.. Underwood o
3, this ground, but the latter receive
, an overwhelming vote of confidenc
Y In the house.
During the controversy the ways an
l means committee was at work on a
4 iron and steel revision plan, but 1t r,
! mained for the senate to act on tn
schedule. With the acquiescense
house leaders, the senate tackled a
iron and steel schedule on the cotto
bill. 1t will be concurred in by IL
house tomorrow, regardless of Il
9 death 1t Is certain to meet when
reaches the White House.
When the special sessions convene
on April 4, the house was organized /