The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-11
CONGRESS SESSION
NEARING AN END
MANY LEADERS so BUSY PRE-.
PAIRING FOR COMING SESSION
THEY NEGLECT PRESENT ONE.

Washington, Feb. 1O.-CongreSs
las reached the squeezing stage
Of the session. Important legisIa
ton that has accumulated during the
last two years must be crowded int J
the work of the next three weeks
and must take its chances of sue
cess in the jam of appropriation bills
still to be considered. Active man
ayers of the two houses, who bear the
responsibility of getting things
through, consequently are wearing
troubled looks and wondering how
much actual business can be trans
acted in the fed remaining working
days before March A.
1t is not an unusual situation at
the end of short session, but eX-
perience of former years apparently
has had little influence on the handl'
ing of the big supply measures this
session there remaining to be con
sidered appropriations for nearly a
billion dollars worth of public eX-
penditures.
An important element in the end CT
the session rush this year is the fact
that leaders in both houses are as
much engrossed in plans for the COM
ing extra session as to neglect d.
tails of the dying one.
Busy With Plans for Future.
Democratic leaders in house and
senate are absorbed in questions of
Party control, patronage, tariff, cur
rnncv and general legislative plans
for the opening days of the Wilson
administration. A republican presi-
dent and a nominal republican major
lty in the senate are still in control,
Tut the closing days of the session
witness a complete domination of the
senate by the democratic forces. The
democrats exhibit the confidence Of
az ton which comes from a certain
roajority in the new senate, and the
knowledge that there will be little,
i! any, more important Legislation
enacted by congress before they take
charge of affairs.
Little activity has been evident for
some time in the democratic fight
for control of the senate, due chiefly
to the wellgrounded belief on TIE part
Of the so-called progressive democrat
ic element that it will effect a COM
promise that will give the newer sen.
ators a full voice in senate affairs.
Tie fight against President Taft's ap
pCntments continues, however, with
unabated vigor. While a compromise
may be reached ultimately as to the
Taft appointments, allowing some OF
thcm to be confiremd, the democrats
are unwavering in their purpose of
holding up most of the Taft nomina-
tons until March 4, vixen the places
would automatically become open for
appointments by President Wilson.
Wilson Avoids Patronage Fight.
Whether Presidentelect Wilson i
in harmony with the action OF demo.
cratic leaders in this plan is not
made known. His latest discussion
Of the subject has shown his unwill-
ingness to be drawn into a declaration n
his attitude toward the patronage
fight. Republican threats that the
appointments by President Wilson af-
ter March will be subjected to like
opposition have become open and en-
phatic in the last week. but the de-
velopment apparently has not weak
ehed the democratic opposition.
Aside from work upon the tariff
bills now going on behind closed
doors in the house ways and means
committee, the democrats are work
ing upon no definite arrangement
for the early days of the extra session