The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-12-01
PRESIDENT WILSON WILL APPEAR
TOMORROW TO DELIVER HIS ADDRESS
Senate Met This Morning and Was in Almost Continu-
Session Through Adjournment Of Special
and Opening of Regular Gatherings
EXECUTIVE AbANDONS HOLIDAY VACATION #
Currency MEASURE IS NOT YET PASSED THEN
Upper House Administration Leaders Agree to Plan
Floodgates to New Legislation Opened-House will
Deal With Bilon-Dollar Appropriation.

Washington. Dec. 1.-Congress to-
to that promises to be the longest
continuous session in its history. The
regular December session. following
without a break upon the heels Of the
long extra session that has run since
April z, brought to the tired lawmak-
ers a new host Of problems. with the
prospect Of steady work for many
months.
The new congress was formally call
ed to order this noon. President Will
son will read his first general message
at a joint session Of the two houses
at o'clock tomorrow, and it is ex-
pected he will touch on many prob
lens to be taken up at the new ses-
sion.
The senate this morning practically
merged the old session into the new
by meeting at 10 o'clock to wind up
the work Of the dying session. While
the senate is working on currency the
house will start on the billion dollar
appropriations bill. carrying the needs
Of the government for the year be-
ginning next January.
Interest is Lacking.
The interest usually surrounding
the opening Of a new session Of con-
gress was absent from the events Of
today While the first session Of the
sixty-third congress ended at noon.
and the second session was ushered
In by formal proclamation Of the vice
president and the speaker Of the
house, the status of legislation will be
little diff ferent from what it. was when
senate and house adjourned Saturday
afternoon. ssN~' r. - ''''f
President Wilson will appear before
the house at 1 o'clock on Tuesday
to read his annual message at a joint
session in the house chambers. Aside
from this for,nality. inaugurated by
President Wilson last April at the
start Of the special session and the
presentation in the house today Of the
annual estimates for federal expendi-
tures the first days OF the new ses-
sion will be scarcely distingufshable
from the closing days Of the old. For
the first time In many years congress
will step from one session to another
without break in the routine Of busi-
ness.
Opens Flood Gates.
The Significance Of the new ses-
sion lies in the fact that it opens the
flood gates for legislative activity, and
inaugurates a period that promises to
be crowded with the consideration Of
Important pFOJectS ana prOllnc IN leg
islative enactment.
The extra session just ended was
limited, by informal agreements with
President Wilson. to the consideration
Of tariff and currency reform, and
nothing that might interfere with
those issues was taken up. The cur
rency bill still dominates the situation
as the new session begins: but the ad-
ministration program of antitrust and
railroad legislation which is to fol-
low, must share the field with a score
or more Of other important subjects.
Currency by End of Month.
1t Is the hope of democratic leaders
that the currency bill can be disposed
Of in the senate by the end Of Decem-
Der. and can be completed by both
houses Of congress and signed by the
president In January. In anticipation
Of this. the plans for antitrust leg
islation will be taken up this week by
President Wilson, in conference with
Representative Clayton, Senator New
lands and other members Of the judic-
iary and interstate commerce COM
missions of the two houses.
The administration is to lay stress
upon the proposed strengthening of
the antitrust laws from the outset.
1t is proposed to have the general
plan Of action laid out in advance Of
the opening Of the subject in house
and senate. Other important projects
to be taken up in congress early in
the year. and that will divide atten-
tion with the antitrust bills include:
Many Problems Up.
Further regulation of railroads as
to rates and stock issues, government
owned railroads for Alaska, regula-
tion of trading in cotton and grain
futures federal aid for vocational edu-
cation. esta tablishment Of a system of
rural land banks, independence of the
Philippines, constitutional amendment
working conditions for merchant SAIL
ors. legislation to promote safety at
sea. two battleship naval programs,
establishment Of a federal armor-
making plant, good roads legislation.
investigation Of cost Of living prob
lens and all the annual appropria-
tion bills.
The bill to give San Francisco wa
ter supply rights In Hetch-Hetchy VAL
Icy. over which conservationists hgnt
has waged for more than a year. Is
8. Another agreement calls for con-
sideration Immediately afterward Of
the bill to authorize construction Of
the government railroads in Alaska.
A similar measure has been favor
ably acted upon by committee of
the house. These bills. with the "sea-
mans servitude'' bill which recently
passed thesenate. probably will be the
first measures of general character
considered by congress.
Extensive Hearing Expected.
Extensive hearings will be given by
the house committee on judiciary pre-
liminary to any decision as to the form
Of anti-trust legislation. The first
measure to be brought forward prob
ably will be designed to prevent inter-
locking directorates among industrial
concerns. The inter-relation Of large
corporations has been the subject Of
repeated attacks by congressional and
federal investigating bodies Other
subjects Of antitrust program will in
oauda price'cuttipg BY monopolie1