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

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radium lands, but none of the ad-
ministration trust bills appeared
Senator Ashurst introduced a res
olution for a congressional investl-
cation of the Michigan copper strike.
1t would probe the copper profits
and whether peonage was maintained,
access to the postoffice prevented
and immigration violated.
Washington, Jan. 12.-Congress
got back to work again today after a
holiday play spell. In the house,
promptly at noon Speaker Clark
dropped his gavel, and similar
scene was enacted in the senate with
Vice-President Marshall in the chair,
Fresh from vacation which follow
ed nine months of tariff and currency
members of both houses returned re-
freshed and ready for work at new
point in the democratic administra-
ton.
For the first time since President
Wilson ordered the special session
last April, congress was without the
overshadowing influence of any sin
gle dominant issue such as tariff or
currency reform, to be fought out to
the exclusion of other business.
--As a result, the work of the next
few months in national legislative
halls is expected to cover wide
range of subjects. Antitrust lCgisla-
tion remains as an important factor
in President Wilson's legislative
program, that must Ibe considered
by congress, but it will not displace
other important legislation, as did
the bills for tariff and currency rev
isions.
Four general subjects will embrace
much of the work of senate and
house during the coming months
They are:
Control of trusts and monopolies,
including legislation to prevent cold
storage manipulation, unfair price
cutting, and other abuses directly af-
fecting retail business.
Rural credits, and other legislation
directly affecting farmers and land
owners, such as good road improve
ment and federal aid to vocational
and agricultural education;
Strengthening of the national de
fense, through measures such as the
volunteer army BILL" already passed
by the house; the Hay bill to create
a new aviation division in the army;
the Padgett bill to put the naval mil
itia on a war footing; the Hobson
bill for counsel of National De-
fense; and the general administra-
ton program for a two-battleship ad-
dition to the navy;
Passage of the annual appropria-
ton bills, carrying more than ST.
900 100000 for support of the govern
ment, and containing many items of
general legislation that must be
fought over in house and senate.
Aside from these general subjects
Congress will take up early in the
session the settlement of labor prob
lens of far-reaching importance.
Members of both houses have an
nounced their plans to call for feder-
al investigation of the strike in the
Calumet copper mining region and
the forcible removal from Michigan
of Charles H. Meyer, president Of
the Western Federation of Miners.
While many house leaders oppose
the undertaking of special investi-
CATION, it is expected the senate may
be more disposed to authorize an in
yestigatiOn similar to that which it
conducted last summer into the coal
strike in West Virginia.
Government ownership Of railroads
as proposed in the Alaskan railway
bills will be forced upon the atten-
ton of members of both bodies as
soon as they take up work. In each
branch bill to authorize the gov
ernment to build railroads in the
northern territory has received the
endorsement. of a committee, and has
been placed before congress as "un-
finished business" where it must be
taken up without delay. While the
principle of government ownership,
even as applied to Alaskan roads,