Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-10
CONGRESS PREPARES
 TO RENEW LAb0RS
 ON BIG CALENDAR
Most Important of Measures at Sesiion Will Be Proposed Anti Trust Law Amend ment si&

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9.--Witn the end of the Christmas recess but two days away senators and repre- sentatives who went home for the holidays are arriving in Washington today by almost every train.
 When the two houses re-assemole Monday they will get down to busi. ness immediately, for many import. ant matters are to be considered and acted upon by the lawmakers Tn the comparatively brief period remaining before constitutional limitat.ra brings the congressional session 10 an end
 Three important items of unfin- ished business were left on the House calendar when that body adjourned for the Christmas holidays. They are the Alaska railroad bill, a joint resolution providing for the appoint ment of commission to investigate and report plan for national aid to vocational education and the dis trict of Columbia appropriation bill.
 On the Senate calendar the joint I resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the light of suffrage to women stands near the top, followed closely by the Owen bill for the establishment of legislative reference bureau of the Library of Congress. which is in. tended to give Congress at first-hand expert advice on legislative matters particularly in the drafting of lesis. lation. Should this measure pass. it would provide Congress with bu- reau similar to the successful bureau which now assists the legislature of l Wisconsin in it's legislative work.
 On the House calendar. to be cod sidered by the committee of the whole House on the State of the Union. are many important bills. Included among them are the lsdamson bill to create a public health service with broader powers than those now enjoyed by the Public Health and Marine Hospital J Service; the Clapp bill, prohibiting the sending of campaign contribu- ticns from one Etate to another; tho Burnett bill, to regulate the immigra. tion of aliens into the United States, andthe Booker bill relative to inter. state commerce in convict-made goods.
 In addition to bills already on the calendar. there are several other pieces of legislation certain to come before Congress which have not yet reached the calendars of either house. One Of these is the La Toilette sea. mems bill, which has already passed the Senate. and upon which hearings have already been held by the mer. chant marine and fisheries commit. tee of the House. Another is the Adamscn resolution. introduced in the House just before the Christmas recess, providing for the suspension for two years of that provision in the Panama canal act which WI give to American coastwise vessels free tolls.
 Most important of all, however, is a proposed amendment to the anti. trust law. Unless his present plans are changed President Wilson will waste little time after Congress re- assemblies in laying before the law makers his very definite ideas on the trust question. Precisely what recom- . mendations for further trust legisla. ton President Wilson may take are not as yet matters of public knowl. edge. But the part he took in the cn. actment of New Jerseys antitrust laws while he was governor Cf that State made it plain that he has very strong and definite views on the sub 5 ject. It is well understood, also, that 1 Attorney eneral McReynolds has toth convictions and definite ideas upon what he believes is necessary and desirable in the way of further legis lation to curb the big combines. IL Is therefore reasonable to exveci Q that the Presidents special message on the subject will contain a strong and clear statement of the plans ol the administration
 The only question that is being asked in interested circles is whether Q or not recent developments may have caused a more or less importan J change in the attitude of Presldsn e Wilson on the matter of trust legls
 lation. 1t is pointed out that tn,
 success with which the Federal anti
 trust suits instituted and conducted d under the sherman law since PrssI a dent Wilson was inaugurated ha
 been so marked that many member
 life have been heard to express sh
 express the opinion that the Sherman j.. statute in its present, form Is stron '' and comprehensive enough to effeoi Ie lively put every illegal combine |
 the country out of business and tha
 there Is therefore no real necessit
 to amend the law Close friends c of the President. however. are cor Il. vinced that he will insist upon certai
 amendments which he has in min
 and which he considers necessary {
 make it easier for the Departmer |. of Justice to convict those guilty (
 violation of the law The most in 'i portant of these amendments, 1t ' lelieved, will Iie to make the indiyi' ' nal meinbers and not the corporatio
 liable. both criminellys and ciyilly, fe ut the illegal acts Of the corporation.
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