The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-01-12

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! proposed development will be passed
after a short debate.
President Wilson's influence is
strongly behind the plan for system
of rural banks and credit assOcia.
tions; and that project is expected
to vie with trust questions in the
attention that will be given to it by
the administration. The report of
| the Rural Credit Commission which
toured europe last year, has been
carefully gone over by the president;
and when legislation is taken up it
| probably will be along concerted
| lines, such as characterized action
on the general currency bill.
With the prospects of hard con
, sressional campaign next summer
and fall the democratic forces are
anxious to add the rural credit laws,
and several effective trust statutes,
to the record of legislation with
which they can 80 before the voters.
From the outset of work leaders in
both houses will attempt to guide
legislation so that appropriation bills
can be completed early in the spring,
and other important measures dispos
ed of in time to permit an early ad.
journment.
Opposition to the sO.caildd sea
mans bill' regulating the labor Of
sailors, has become so pronounced
in the house that a hard fight prom
ises to face that measure before it
can be passed. The bill passed the
senate last fall and an effort will be
made to bring it up in the house for
action at an early date.
Womans suffrage will also give
both branches of congress busy
time. Advocates of a constitutional
amendment permitting women to
yote have massed their forces in
Washington, and are preparing for
concerted attack on senate and
house, aided by many senators and
representatives who favor general
suffrage and who VIII advocate some
positive action by congress endorsing
it,
The scope of trust legislation prob
ably will not be fully outlined for
several weeks. Recent developments
in financial and commercial circles
have convinced leaders in both the
houses that effective legislation to
correct alleged abuses can be passed
without seriously disturbing business
conditions The president and his
legal advisors will collaborate with
the committee of senate and house
on effective bills that will reach
some of the more important phases
of the trust problem without requir-
ing a revolution of corporation meth
DDS.
Congress has taken up the prob
lens of national defense with unusu-
al activity since December l. The
imminence of a crisis in this coun-
try's relations with Mexico has made
more apparent the weakness of the
military system of the country; and
important steps have already beer
made toward strengthening the pow.
er of the president and the executive
branches of the government, to cope
with sudden emergencies.
The volunteer army BILL which
passed the house and is fayora5ly
regarded in the senate, would pro
vide effective machinery for the rails
ing of volunteer forces in any emer-
gency. The Hay aviation bill, which
has the endorsement Of the house
military affairs committee, and of
the war department, would rea'e an
aviation branch of the array canable
of handling at least II aercplanes,
and of training efficient fore, of air
fighters. These md other bills vii!
be given unusual prominence during
the balance Of this session Of CON
gress.
Diplomatic relations with Nicara-
qua and other Central American
counties may give further trouble to
the senate. The first Nlcaraguan
treaty outlined by Secretary Bryan
did not meet with the approval Of the
senate committed on Foreign rela-
tons, because Of the protectorate it
would have established over the