The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-03-22
SPECIAL SESSION
MAY RUN MONTHS
Especial to the Silver State J

idea of the manner in which the new
president will handle the affairs of
state. He has already shown himself
to be an able executive, giving atten-
tion to important matters in person
and letting his assistants handle ques-
tions of routine He mas not been
precipitate in making official ap-
pointments and yet he has not baked
at choosing men where vacancies made
prompt action necessary. He has
shown himself to be firm yet diplo.
matte, and his course gives promise of
an able, efficient, businesslike and sat
isfactory administration to the ma
tion at large.
The Special Session.
! Perhaps il is proper that a subject
or such universal Importance as the
tariff should be the only subject taken
up at the special session. There is
much pressure for the consideration
of other subjects, such as the cur
rency, strengthening the Sherman act,
revising the statutes to bring them in
to harmony with the ideas of conser-
vation, and various other things which
have earnest advocates. IT is not pos.
sible to say just what legislati will
be considered in the special session.
but there is disposition to make the
scope of activity as narrow as posi-
BILE. Chairman Underwood of the
ways and means committee expects to
be ready with the tariff bills. but as
there will be considerable debate on
them the session is likely to stretch
into months. Reductions of tariff are
certain to be made. The farming in
terests are anxious for they have al
ways felt that they did not get as
much consideration as they should
have had. The cry for cheaper cost of
living may strike right at the root of
the farmers prosperity. and, of
course, the legislators desire to be
cautious with respect to this. The
south with its cotton, sugar. tobacco
oranges, rice and other distinctive
products. is clamoring for protection;
the west wants cattle, lumber and
wool taken care of; the east asks for
consideration for manufactured goods;
IN short the old problem of eomprom-
ising In way to satisfy everyone is
still present and ii is a problem which
will tax the ingenuity of congress to
the utmost.
Want Exposition Funds.
BY the veto of the sundry civil bill
President Taft made necessary the
enactment of an appropriation bill by
the new congress to take care of var
ious items which are now unprovided
for. One of these is for government
participation in the San Francisco ex-
position. The bill carried $500, 900
for this purpose, but when the bill
failed of course the item failed Con-
gress made no provision for the San
Diego exposition to be held throughout
the calendar year 1915. but when con.
sideration is again taken up perhaps it
will make provision also for San
Diego. The government is really deep
lv interested in the San Diego expo-
sition, because the wonderful activi-
ties of the government reclaiming arid
lands and conserving the natural re-
sources of the nation will be very
graphically illustrated there in a man.
ner to rivet the attention of every
visitor. International expositions such
as those to be held at San Diego ami
San Francisco are highly educational
they bring together people from all
sections of the country; they inform
foreigners of the advantages which
America holds out to them, and they
ought to be officially recognized and
encouraged in every legitimate way.
New Congressman.
With the reconvening of congress
there will be introduced to the people
of the United States number of new
men on whose shoulders fall the man
ties of departed statesmen-departed
in most eases, to the private and
peaceful walks of life. Progressives
in the main, these new statesmen are
in general young, enterprising, ambi-
tious and capable. They are ready to
grapple with the problems which have
been relegated to them, and they all
have promises to fulfill as to their
stewardship. Already many of them
have been broken in, to some extent
They came on early and learned how
things were done before the old SEES
sion died. Two from California, Rep
resentatives VIM. A. Kettner and D.
;. Church, came on very early in the
last session, and another western mem
ber. Sinnott, of Oregon, did likewise
kettner had to take the place of Rep
resentative Smith, whose long illness
ended in death, not long before the
end of the session. As the exposition
city of San Diego wanted some legis
lation in the interests of the harbor.
il was up to Kettner to get busy
months before he had any official
standing, and his success in getting an
appropriation is looked on as little
short of miraculous bv many old mem
hers. Tn Kettner. Church and Judge
Raker, who has already served one
term, California has three typieally
alert. young and able Democrats
members of the house IT is such tim
her that makes the country look to the
progressive Democracy for valuable
achievements.
Congressional Committees.
1t is not easv to realize what the re-
organization of the house and senate
means TO the old members of the Re
publican persuasion. The house has
had its reorganization, and the Repub-
licans who have been relegated to the
voiceless minority have become ac-
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