Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-01-14
WILL NOT Be IDLE
CONGRESS TO ACT ON SEVERAL
MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE
THIS WINTER.
ALASKA RAILROAD BILL ONE
Public Health Service. Report on lob
by inquiry and Suspension of Free
Canal Tolls Among the Other
Pending Subjects.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Observation-Disclosures may not and
probably will not pass any very dras-
lie antitrust legislation this winter.
plenty TO do with measures which,
while they are OF less seeming import
ance than antitrust bills, are matters
IF considerable moment TO the general
public. Therefore. while congress
may not do any tremendously big
things during the winter, II will man.
age 20 keep busy.
When congress quit for the Christ
mas recess the house had three impor-
tant matters OF unfinished business
Oh its calendar. the Alaska railroad
bill, u joint resolution providing for
the appointment OF commission to
investigate and report plan for ma
ional aid to vocational education; and
he District Of Columbia appropriation
bill. The senate also had special
order on the Alaska railroad bill and
so IL seems likely that this legislation
is practically certain 10 pass before
warm weather sets in.
After the Alaska railroad bill II
seems likely that the Adamson bill TO
create n public health service with
more extended powers than those now
edged in the public health and marine
hospital services will be taken up for
consideration and very likely passed
Other matters which may receive the
sanction of congress before the final
adjournment of the session are the
Booher bill relative TO restricting in
terstate commerce i'm goods made by
convicts. and the Burnett bill regulat-
ing the immigration OF aliens into the
United States
Await Report on Lobby.
The lobby investigation matter win
come before the house In sharply
pertinent way before very long The
| members now are awaiting report
from the Judiciary committee on mat
ters which may lead TO action OF some
kind in the case OF Representative
James 7. McDermott OF Chicago and
ofiicers OF the National Association of
Manufacturers in connection with the
Investigation of the charges which
were made when the Mulhall lobby
inquiry was on.
II probably will be remembered that
IN the report of the lobby committee
all the present members of congress
whose names were mentioned by wit
nesses before the committee were
cleared Of lobbying blame" with tho
exception OF Representative McDer
mott. In his case the testimony was
aid before the house without any rec
JInmendation and II is taken fol-
granted apparently that the house vii
take some action looking either &C
I the punishment or to the exoneratior
/ of this Illinois congressman whose
name was so frequently mentioned in
connection with lobbying activities
| In addition to bills already on the
| calendar. there are three other pieces
/ " legislation certain TO come before
! this congress which have not vet
reached the calendars OF either house
The first Of these is the amendment
to the antitrust Law. which the presi
dent will recommend 10 congress IN
2 special message
Panama Canal Tolls Again
The other measures are the La Fol
/ lette seamen's bill. which has already
passed the senate, and upon which
hearings have been held by the mer
chant marine and fisheries committee
of the house. and the Adamson reso
| lUtiOn introduced in the house Just
| before the Christmas recess. provid
ing for the suspension for two years
Of that provision in the Panama canal
act which will give TO American coast
wise vessels free tolls The senate
may add one more measure to this
list in the bill introduced by Senator
Williams on the closing dag OF the
pre-hoiiday session providing for the
insurance Of bank deposits
II is expected that the Adamson
resolution viii start again the fight
over the tolls question which stirred
congress up year ago. President
Wilson thus far has made no an.
nOUncement OF his leanings i'm this
matter and II seems likely that he has
purposely kept from saying anything
about the issue involved because OF
his desire to get the currency bill
out Of the way before the other mat.
ter was touched upon
As to Labor Legislation.
Labor legislation is both popular
and unpopular IN the house OF rep.
resentatives and the senate For
some reason or other members and
senators think that n they vote for
such legislation as the labor leaders
ASK they Will be sure 10 get the
support OF labor at the polls. In
this respect therefore II may be- said
that a chance to vote for labor IeglsIa.
ton Is popular, but there are times
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