The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-12
Including Several Genera Sub
ieOts Such as e0nT0 of
Trusts and NJ Onoi1OI
NATIONAL DEFENSE Bl
Settlement of Labor Problem 8f
Far Reaching Importance
is Also to be UP.


i Congress got back to work agaln to-
day after a holiday play spell g
4 the House, promptly at noon peak
I er Clark dropped his gavel ana q 81 nj
liar scene was enacted In the Senate
with Vice President Marshall In lle
chair. Fresh from q Yacati on y lttclt
followed nine months of tariff aud
currency members Of both houses
4 turned refreshed and ready ta1
i at new point in the Dem
ADMINISTRATION,
For the first time since IF res DEN
/ Wilson ordered q special session last
April, Congress was without the over
shadowing Influence 81 any slngie
dominant issue such as tart ont a ~
rency reform 10 be fouglit ont . stlle
exclusion of other business,
I AS q result the work Of "a q 81 :
I few months in nat Iona legf
halls is expected to cover a itse
range Of subjects. Anti-trl1at 3e
\ lation remains as an important faetof
| In President wilson's legislativ pro-
/ gram, that must be considered BY
Congress, but 1t will not displace otil4
Ter important legislation, as did atlae
| bills for tariff and currency reTfs
ions.
Four general subjects viii EN- brace
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 afr
fecting retail business.
Rural credits, and other legista
ton directly affecting farmers and
I land owners, such as good road Inn
proYement and federal aid TO voea-
tfonaI and Agricultural etilca Jon.
Strengthening OF the national q
Tense, through measures such as the
volunteer army bin aIread y passed
by the House; the Fay bill to create
q new aviation division ia the army
the Radgett bfllsto put the navel mi
/ tia on a war footing the EIobs6u bill
for a counsel of national defenses ana
the general administration program
for a twozbattleshfp addition To the
navy.
Passage of the annual appropria-
! tion bills, carrying more than i
/. 00,QD0,0 900 for support of tfies goY-
eminent, and containing many items
of general legisla ton that must he
fought over in House and Senate.
Aside from those general 81 -
jects, Congress will take up early IN
the session the settlement " abor
problems of far-reaclit 3 illb taTlc
Members of both houses hage al
nounced their plans to call Tor fed
eraI investigation of the strik Ii
Calumet copper mining region
the forcfble removal from, Mica iEaf
of Charles H. Meyer, president sof
Western Federation of Miners. White
many House leaders oppose the 1In-
dertaking of special investfgat Hon,
it is expected the Senate may be more
disposed to authorize an invest
ton similar to that which 1t condUci
ed last summer into the coal strike
in West Virginia.
ANT frH&as 81
roads, as proposed in the Alaskan
railway bills will be forced upon the
attention of members Offsboth bodies
| as soon as they IT'D Ike up. work, IN
each branch, aebil1 TO aulhoflze the
goyernmep gtoti b1ild railroad Ia the
northern tergttory has received the
endorsement OF a ,conmfttee, nd has
been placed befors Congress as g .ljissf
finished BUSINESS where 1T must he
taken up without delay. VVillte tho
principle of government oWhRrsiif1,
even as applied 20 Alaskan r6s Is, has
many opnonents anon he lead e9.s s9t
both houses, some leaders epected
that q bill sauthOriz King the, proposed
development Will be passed after 4
short debate
President Wilson'S influence 81
strongly behind the plan forw sys-
tenn of rural banks and credit as
sociations; and that project is ex-
pected to vie with trust questions Ia
the attention that will be given to
| by the administration. The report
iof the rural credit commission which
toured Europe last year, has been
carefully gone over by theBpre tdent
and when Legislation is taken up -
probably VIII he along CONCERTED
lines, such as charact eIfzed action "a
the general currency bill.
With the prospects ct q hard con
gresstonal campaign next Skinner