Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-12
WORK TO CONTINUE THRU SUM.
MER IF TRUST BILLS ARE
TAKEN UP.
NO WAY FOUND TO AVOID
WORK IN HOT WEATHER
House Can Sit Back and Mark Time
While Senators swelter-campaisns
on For Reelection Of Numerous
Members Double Cause For Anxiety
to Return to Homo and Constituents.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, June 12.-With new
the senate, members Of senate and
house are getting more and more anxi-
Gus over the question Of how they are
going to get away from Washington to
attend to their fall campaigns.
Predictions of some of the senators
that If congress enacts comprehensive
trust legislation 1t will be here until
the middle Of September or the list of
October are making gentlemen who
have hard fights for re- election on their
hands extremely nervous. While the
hope is not wanting that some way will
be found to avoid a session that will
last all summer and run into the fall. 1t
is fact that once the senate tackles
trust legislation it will be difficult for it
to halt before it has made thorough
Job of it.
The house along In the summer
usually fixes up plan whereby it takes
a series of three-day adjournments
while the senate continues to work.
This plan is already being talked of in
the house. 1t is fairly satisfactory
who live within several hundred miles
of Washington. But it does little for
the relief of members who live in re-
mote states. They do not feel free TO
go home and jump into their political
campaigns lest something should sud-
denly happen and jerk them quickly
I back to the capital. AS for the senate.
while that body is grinding away
steadily on a big subject like the trusts.
few senators like to absent themselves
for any length of time, tho some OF
them do it anyhow.
Almost Continuous Sessions.
The possibility that congress VIII be
here until fall has revived talk to the
| effect congress is steadily getting closer
to the continuous session. Much foun-
| dalton for this appears from an exam
| ination of the records in recent years
| The tendency is for the extra session
| to become more frequent and since the
| Sixty first congress. which began with
the time CT the Taft inauguration
! Washington has had the lawmakers
with it most of the time.
! President Taft called the Sixty-first
congress into special session March 10,
! 1909. and it remained here until Aug. D.
of that year. passing the Payne-Aidricn
4 tariff bill. That was SESSION VI 1T
days The regular long session began
the following December and ran to
June IS. 1910. Altogether. that congress-
I in the two years of it's existence. was
in session 435 days. The Sixty second
congress remained in special session
from April 4, 1911. to Aug. %. period
of l4l days and the regular session
which followed remained in session I'M
til Aug. Is, 1912, or o67 days. Alto
gether. the Sixty second congress was
in session 500 days in the two years OF
| it's existence
The Sixty-third congress has been In
practically continuous session since
this administration opened. 1t was
called together April Z. 1913. and ran
steadily until Dec. Of the same year
merging into the present regular SEES
sion. The special session lasted 23s
days and if this session lasts until fail'
it will result in this congress spending
more time in Washington than any
other in recent years. The exceptional
record Of the Fortieth congress, BACK
in 1867, promises to be nearly equaieo'