Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-11-30
Congressional
mil READY TO
START TO WORK
Session Next Week will Mark
Last Appearance Of Many
Members

WASHINGTON, 40 30--With
opening OF the final session OF the
Sixty-second congress but two days
away, senators and representatives
from near and far are pouring into
the capital today on every train.
Heavily loaded baggage trucks pro-
claim to the people OF the streets
that la w.making is about to be resrm.
ed. The hotel proprietors, boarding
house keepers and re~stauranteurs
have again put on smiles that won't
come off for three months.
..,' viii Be Short Session.
1t will be a short session, of course.
since it will expire by constitutional
limitation on March 4. There may
be sone feeble attempts at construct
i've legislation, but they will amount
to little. as politicians of both par
ties admit that the three months is
entirely too short a time in which to
perform any important task along
this line. Little else than the pas
sage OF the various appropriation bills
is likely to be attempted. Tariff bills
will not be heard on until the extra
session, it Is conceded. but the Bur-
nett immigration bill, the Philippine
independence bill and the worknen's
compensation bill will be given pref
ence by the rules committee. In adj
ditiOn to these, 1t is expected that
the proposition TO purchase Monticel-
To-, the home Of Thomas Jefferson,
now owned by Representative Levy
of New York, will be sprung early in
the session.
Farewell Appearance for Many.
In both houses the session will be
remarkable largely in that it will mark
the farewell appearance Of many
members who for years have been
Leaders or familiar figures in the SEN
ate or house. Among the senators
who will enter upon their final ses-
sion in the upper house are. WetmOre
Of Rhode Island, Bourne of Oregon,
Briggs of New Jersey, Brown of Ne.
braska. Paynter of Kentucky, Curtis
of Kansas, Cullom of Illinois and
Crane of Massachusetts,.
Last Session for Joe Cannon.
Chief among the members OF the
house who will sing their swan sons
before March 4 is Uncle" Joe Can
non Of Illinois. n of the most pic
turesque figures in twenty congresses,
barring one, and speaker of the house
for four consecutive terms. Other
well known representatives who are
about to pass out with the tide are
Mick" LOngworth of Ohio. William
ID. Mckinley of Illinois, Ebenezer Hill
Of Connecticut William A. ROden'
berg of Illinois, Dalzell of Pennsylva.
MIA, Mccall Of Massachusetts, Need
ham of California, and Pujo of Louisi-
ana.
Opening Session Brief.
The opening session Monday, il &C
%cordance with precedent, will be brief
and largely perfunctory. Several
new senator's and representatives
who have been appointed or elected
to fill vacancies that have occurred
since the adjournment of the last SEES.
sion will be indicted into Office. Both
houses will appoint committees to call
upon the president to notify him that
congress is in session. Each branch
will appoint another committee to
notify the other house that it is in
readiness to proceed with Legislative
business. When these matters have
been disposed of both branches will
adjourn "as a further mark of re
spect' to the members who have
passed away since adjournment.
Taft's Message Tuesday.
President Tafts message is expect
ed to be read before each house or
Tuesday. Then the country can watch
then thrust and parry and intermit