The daily sentinel., 1913-03-03

vestigations, the results of which
vision of the tariff could be made
Legislative work throughout the
special session, and the long session
beginning in December, 1911, and
running through last August, includ-
ed the following:
Increase in the size of the House of
Representatives, from 396 and 435
members.
Age and service pension law, in
creasing Civil war pensions.
Eight-hour law covering govern
ment contracts.
Admission of Arizona and New
Mexico to statehood.
Use of poisonous white phosphorus
in match making prevented by ex-
cessive tax.
Pure drug law amended to prevent
misleading labels on patent medi-
cines.
Wireless communication brought
under careful regulation, the law re-
quiring the wireless on all ocean ves-
sells to be adequately manned.
Government transports required to
carry an ample number of lifeboats.
Red Cross recognized officially as
branch of government service in time
of war.
Federal relief given to 1912 flood
sufferers in lower Mississippi Valley
Kill Commerce Court.
Commerce Court and Tariff Board
virtually legislated out of existence.
Industrial Commission authorized,
to study relations between capital
and labor.
This Congress has witnessed the
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les with foreign nations. The arbi-
tration treaties with France and
Great Britain, negotiated by Presi-
dent Taft. however, were not ratified,
because the Senate so amended them
that the President considered they
did not carry out the understandings
made with the two powers.
In the two years. however, the fol-
lowing important agreements have
been perfected:
Pecuniary Claims treaty with
Great Britain.
North Atlantic Coast Fisheries
agreement with Great Britain.
Fur seal treaty with Great Britain,
Russia and Japan.
International wireless treaty with
leading foreign nations.
International war prize agreement
International agreement covering
sanitary measures for the control of
epidemics.
General arbitration treaty with
France extended to 1918.
Copyright treaty with Hungary.
International agreement covering
assistance and salvage at sea
Investigation covering wide
range of important subjects were con-
Quoted. In addition to those enum-
Grated tthe money trust" campaign
expenditures and steel inquiries)
special committees and the regular
standing committees of the two
houses have conducted the following:
New Committees.
Tariff hearings, by Ways and
Means committee, in preparation for
new Democratic tariff bills.
Currency hearings, preparatory to
framing monetary reforms.
Investigation of affairs of Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company, and its
alleged domonation of the market.
Inquiry into the Titanic DISASTER.
Investigation of conditions along
Mexicon border. and alleged financing
of Mexican revolutionists by Amer
leans.
Shipping trust" inquiry, to deter
mine extent of common control of
ocean routes.
Investigations of Indian affairs, on
various reservations, and at WASH
ington.
Investigations of agricultural,
treasury, and other government de-
partments.
Investigation of land grants about
Controller Bay. Alaska.
President Taft has used the veto
power freely throughout the Con-
gress. Fully 20 bills have met his
disapproval, including Democratic
tariff bills, appropriation bills which
contained Commerce Court, civil SER
vice and army reorganization and leg
islation of which he did not approve;
water power bills in which the prin-
ciple of federal control was not recog-
nized; and the immigration bill con-
tanning the 'literacy test feature.