The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-08
WHAT CONGRESS
EXPECTS TO Do
Outline of the Work Now
Before the National Law
Making Body

machinery to provide for operation OF
the Panama canal and control of the
canal zone will be started Tuesday,
when the house committee on inter-
state commerce will hold its first
meeting to frame program for hear
tngs and other preliminary work as q
basis Of the bill which will be reported
out to the house later in the session
Chairman Adamson and his COM
mittee have just returned from trip
to Panama where they conferred with
Engineer Goethals and other officials
who are working to put the great
tsthlnian ditch into active operation
by Jan I. 1915. and perhaps, as they
say. a year earlier. Mr.. Adamson has
voiced the. opinion that the progress
and quality of the work done there is
entirely satisfactory. -
The. question, of the treatment to be
accorded American shipping. whether
to give craft flying the American flag
preferential rates and the problem of
whether to vest wide discretion in the
president as to the amount of tolls or
to make specific legislative provisions
for the rates in the bill. will be fought
out in the committee. The senate
committee on interoceanic canals has
made no plans, being disposed to wait
upon the house.
Two appropriation bills are about
raeyd to emerge from COMMITTEES of
the house. The District of Columbia
bill, which last year carried $12,000,-
900. will be completed, and reported to
the house early this week and It will
be followed quickly by the pension
appropriation bill which runs usually
close to $l50.000,000.
Even with this bill pension supply
measure the Sherwood dollar-a day
Dill, will be considered in the senate
committee on pensions tomorrow.
passed the house, has few friends in
the senate and the disposition is to cut
any expenditures along that line to
$4,000. 900 or 10000, ,000. Chairman
McGumber OF the senate committee
on pensions has bill of his own en-
podying both age and service features
which he Will urge as a substitute. His
esttmate OF the annual cost under his
Dill is approximately $17,000.000.
at about $75.000,000. Action ahus far
has been delayed to await revised cost
estimates from the pension bureau.
The arbitration treaties with Great
Britain and France probably will be
called up In open session Of the SEN
ate within a. fortnight. Friends of the
treaties have held up action pending
a marshalltng Of the strength neces-
sary for their ratification. This
strength has not developed sufficiently
yet but there are indications Of a gain
among the Democratic senators and
q sentiment increasingly favorable to
Senator Roots proposal TO provide
directly that nothing in the treaties
shall be construed to bind. the United
States to arbitrate such questions al
the Monroe doctrine or contro lof i'm
migration.
Senator Lorimer today testified un-
der oath for the FIRST time since the
senate ordered an Investigation. OF his
election. Judge Hanecy. his counsel.
intends to let the senator tell his own
story In his bwn way. He may take
TWO days to do so Then the crosse
examination will begin. Some senators
on the investigating committee intend
to question Mr.. Lorimer at length.
Following his testimony the commit.
tee Is expected to begin work on It's
export TO the senate whore the final
The house sugar trust investigating
committees are scheduled to resume
hearings tomorrow ard the nationa,
monetary commission will make it's
nnal report 70 c0neyess on Tuesday.
ate Tuesday on .. hill to raisS volun.
tear military forces. in time of actual
or threatened war and the house for
efgn affairs Committee the game day
will act on the Sill making effective
the international protection OF fur seal
ana otter In the. North. Pacific, An.
Drew Carnegie, 10 expected to testify
before tho house stecl committee on
Wednesday. :.