Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-12-01

now regarded as a blllion-dollar in stMation. |
 Two of the annual budgsts prob- ably will be re tdy when Congress meets-t1e legislative, executive and judicial aEJropiiati~n b Il and the District of Columbia bill. These, poss } y. viii De pass5d d by the House and zen. over to he Senate .eft.e the Christmas adjournment. The naval military, ncstoff ce, Indian, fo1tisi9a|ions, diplomatic. pension and other miner budgets must be passed III .i&n4-ly and Feb!ulry
 l. $ apparent 70 experienced mem bers tEat such big quest ons a3 the taliif, the tiusts and the currency prs@}.em canrot be tackled in the days inter- n-ng De -Ween December nd NteGq | Congress will be fC'.ced to appropriate at the rate of about S12,3t5,ouJ per day in order to meet the running eX ense5 Of tae United States government during the fiscal yea. ot 1913. Th.s immense ta-k practically nleclnles all nope of general legislation and unusually fas; work will be,,equired to dis pose of the s.,proJr ation measures on the eve of 2n incoming aim il stla ion. O. the other hand. the Democrats Cf t11e House, cogniZant of the fact that hsir parry will con rol the en- tire governmental machinery after President Wilson is inducted into of f ce, are loath l. undeItake general leg station during the saor: session, C,5il the opportunity was offe cd The Democrats figure that 1t is use less to consider legislation waich m gl- mest a stumbling block ill d dying Repuhl can Senate, or a; the White House.
 The milita nt Democracy, therefore, takes the sensible view that all big problems may wait few weeks un til President Wilson calls an extra session Cf Congress, when the party, fresh from ts ctory at the polls, may assume the full responsibilities of legislation and may legisiate after it's oNnn fashion.
 It is anticipated that the House Comm ttee on Bank ng and Cur rency will continue it's investiga tion of tie money trust and may make a tentative draft of bills to amend the currency laws. It is not ex pected, however, that any effort will be n,ade to enact these into laws during the short sess on, and the comm ttee, in effect, will mark time until the change of administration.
 The Ways and Means Committee will plug ahead in it's prep rat on of bills revising he Payne-Aidrich tar
 if law. but none of these measures will he brought out until the begin ming of the Sixty-th I'd Congress waica will be convened in extraordi- nary session about April b.
 The Judic ary Committee of the House will be largely concerned with the mpeachment proceedings against Judge Robert w. Archibald, of the Commerce Coult, which are now pending before the Senate and which will be taken up early in December. This will prohib the immediate con- si0era on by the House Judiciary Committee of the trust question which is prominent, now in the minds of Democrats. Amendments to the Sherman law probably w-ll await the convening of the new Congress, al- though sporadic near ngs may be held 3y the Judiciary Committee dur ing the lulls in the Archibald impe ach- ment trial.
 The Archibald trial probably will engage the attention of the Senate for several weeks and tn S, together with the annual apiprc pr atlon bills, will fully occupy the time and atten- ton of the upper chamber until March f.
 The prospects are that the majority of the committees of the House and Senate will mark time during the months of December, January and February and that no important legi3 latiy,, mattcrs-cther than the sup ply b;lls-will be seriously consider od Tho final session of the SiXtY-