The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-28
CONGRESSMEN SLOW REACHING CAPITAL FOR SHORT SESSION Many Wanted to Spend Thanksgiving Day
 at Home
SESSION PROMISES
 TO BE BUSY AFFAIR
Burnett's Attitude Toward Chairman ship of Buildings and Grounds Committee Interesting Fea-
 ture of Next Congress
nx C. E. STEW ART

Washington, November 27.-(Special1- The short session of Congress which be- gins next Monday is destined to be a very busy one in spite of the fact that no tariff legislation is contemplated
 It will be the last chance of a repub- 1iean administration for some time to come to go on record with legislation, and in addition to the annual grist of appro- priation bills, Congress will be forced to dispose of a quantity of general and spe- cial legislative matters left pending with the adjournment of the long session in August.
 There are comparatively few members of Congress in Washington yet though the reconvening of Congress is only few days away. Many of them want to spend Thanksgiving at home, and Saturday and Sunday next will see them pouring into the city from every quarter.
 During the early part of the session the House will be busy on the appropriations, and the Senate will take up the Archpald Impeachment proceedings which is set to begin December 3. 1nis will demand the constant attention ot Representative Clayton, chairman of the judiciary com mlttee, for while at least. In addition to this Representative Clayton commit tee is under instructions by resolution to conduct an investigation Into vioatlons Of the sherman antitrust law with q view of sunmttIng remeaIal Legislation, and it is preparing 10 pegin investigations Immediately after Congress convenes. En- ergetic efforts will be made in both houses to obtain legislation amending the sherman law and hmlnng contrpu tions to political campaign funds. By most members of Congress the sherman law Is considered inadequate and does not meet the purposes for which 1t was en- acted.
 Push Six-Year Term Bill
 Representative Clayton declares aside from these duties which will demand nls attention, he proposes to push wItn great Vlgor hls resolution asking, tor the pro- posed amenoment to the constitution Tor a single term of six years for the Presl- dent of the United States Senator Works has a similar resolution pending in the Senate.
 There will be a renewal of the efforts made during the last sesslon to repeal the Canadian reciprocity measure; just what tho temper of Congress will be upon that isrof1osition is hard 10 say. The demo- crats in the House refused to consider 1t last session and it Is not likely that they will do so now
 The bill of Senator Borah, creating a de- partment of labor will also come up for conslueration during the coming session. This bill has passed the House, and only remains for the Senate to act upon it. The anti-shipping bill, known as the Shep- pard-Kenyon bill, prohibiting the shlp- lnent of liquor into prohibition states, and involving constitutional question will be brought up early in this session by its pected over It. A meeting of the rivers and harbors committee was held Weones- day, and the question of levees for the Mississippi river was discussed. It is un- derstood that the states along the Missis- sippi are urging upon Congress a propo- sition for the government to take lmmedi- ate action looking toward the effective control of the Mississippi and the protec- ton of the delta country from a repetition of last years floods. It is urged that this is national question, because of the vast territory and enormous crops affected.
 Burnett's Big Responsibility
 Now that the democrats are coming into power 1t is somehow expected that they will 'open the pork barrel" and will be generous with appropriations for not only rivers and harbors, but also for public buildings. John l.. Burnett of the Sev- enth Alabama district is now the ranking democrat on the committed of public buildings and grounds, or will be after March 4, as Representative Sheppard of