The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-04-17
SESSION MAY LAST
Until OCTOBER
Especial to the Silver state.)

Especial to the Silver State.)
WASHINGTON, April 17.-Wheth-
er it will be long session or a short
one is the question which the lawmak-
ers under the dome of the capitol are
unable to predict. If the tariff bill is
rushed through substantially as it was
prepared by the ways and means COM
mittee it is quite possible that con-
gress will adjourn by July l. But
while the house will very likely pass
it quickly, despite the disappointment
in various quarters over failure to
give what is considered sufficient pro-
tecton, there will probably be a diff
ferent story to tell in the senate. In
that body the advocates of protection
for sugar and wool are likely to gath
er enough Democratic support to ham,
per the program of the administration.
That will mean delay, if not disaster
for the bill. And then too it is not
improbable that the president may
wish the currency question taken up,
and perhaps other important ques-
tions, so that the session may stretch
along into October.
Pressure on Congress.
That gentle pressure is to be
brought to bear to induce congress to
be good is indicated by the holding up
of committee appointments and by
the decision of the treasury depart
ment to make no appointments of Gus
toms officials until July L. 1t would
be easy for this policy to be extended
to other departments; for instance,
the department. of justice and the
postoffice department, which have
been somewhat slow about distribut-
ing places. Such tactics are likely to
prove efficacious.
Canal Coal Depots.
The official newspaper published by
the government III the Panama canal
zone, known as the "Canal Record
contains an item to the effect that fif-
teen German steamship lines have ap-
piled for coal space on the canal zone
sufficient to store $4,000 tons of coal
This only substantiates the statements
that the great steamship companies
were getting ready to make the fullest
possible use of the canal. After pass
ing through this new maritime high
way the first port of call on American
soil will be San Diego, where active
preparations are now being made to
celebrate the opening of the canal
with great international exposition.
Preparations are being made by the
steamship companies to take thous-
ands of visitors to the San Diego ex-
position.
An Attractive Program.
To visit the unique San Diego expo
siti0n will be an experience worth
waiting a lifetime for, but to be able
to make the journey to it by ship,
part of the way through tropic seas,
and threading the great canal which
is justly regarded as the engineering
wonder of the age, will be an ideal ar
rangement. Indeed, the rage to visit
the canal has become almost a mania,
and people are flocking to the canal
zone in hordes in order to see the work
while it is still under construction. At
San Diego there will be a model of
the canal, giving a most realistic i'm
preston of it, and in honor of the big
waterway, the amusement features of
the exposition will be arranged on a
site which will be known as "The
Isthmus.''
Oil for the Isthmus
California ought to feel very deep
interest in the canal for many reasons,
but it is not generally known that
is due to that state that things have
been running so smoothly there. At
least Col. Collier, president of the San
Diego exposition, says so. He holds
that it's because California has been
furnishing the OIL The Union Oil
company has been selling the canal
commission nearly a million barrels
of oil year, and it all comes from the
southern California wells and is pump
ed across the isthmus in a pipe line
that the company put down.
Smooth Proposition.
This oil business, Col. Collier says,
| is pretty smooth proposition, which
is doubtless why he bored for oil him
self and got it, right there at San
Diego. California is justly celebrated
for it's oil-5oth olive oil and crude
petroleum. Both will have a place at
the exposition and it will be most in
teresting to contract the crude meth
DDS employed by the old Padres to ex-
tract the oil from the olive, and the
processes in the modern establishments
which utilize the olive. Petroleum
was known to the ancients who used
its residuum or asphaltum for cement
ing bricks, for pigments, and in many
other ways. Even prehistoric man
made use of the sticky asphalt he
found in the desert places as a sort
of glue. All of these things will be
illustrated at the San Diego exposi-
tion, as well as many others.
S. II. Crittenden, the well-known
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