Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-09-09
CONGRESS Winds
UP fPOCH-MAkING
LENGTHY session
President Wilson Is Well
Pleased with the Results
Congress Achieved.
NEXT ON PROGRAM
r. r. LEGISLATION
This viii Be Dominating Feature of
the Term to Begin in December.
Democrats Proud of C0nstruc-
tive Work.

Washington, Sept. 8.--Adjournment
of the first session of the Gath con-
gress this forenoon at 10 o'clock with
out hitch in the plans of the SEN
ate and house leaders was quickly
followed by a general exodus of mem
bers Fastening homeward to rest or
for participation in the national cam
paign.
While the close of the session saw
the administrations legislative pro-
gram mainly completed, several i'm
portant matters wait to be continued
at the winter session, notably the
remainder of the presidents program
of railroad legislation of which
part, the Adamson bill, was enacted
to prevent the threatened strike of
100000 trainmen.
In formal statement, President
Wilson, speaking of the work of the
session. gave notice that the remain
der of the legislative program would
be pressed at the new session.
The immigration bill, corrupt prac-
tees act, and the bill to permit COM
binations of American exporters to
meet foreign competition abroad went
/ over
| The closing hours of congress were
! remarkably quiet. Only the presence
of the president in his room near the
senate chamber served to attrac. in
terest to what otherwise would have
been an uneventful ending of an
eventful congress.
Informal conference of few ad-
ministra'ion senator's and congress-
men after adjournment turned from
thoughts of what has been accom-.
plished to contamination of tnr fu-
H ture. No matter what happens in the
November elections, the Democratic
congress has three months of work
ahead and an ambitious program TO
complete.
\ There was disappointment bl' no
I bitterness over the failure of some
measures during the long session, and
the Democrats are proud of thei"
legislative record, with it's $60O,OOO,-
600 national defense appropriations
the creation of farm loan board and
rural credits banking system, the
] child labor law, the enactment of the
Adamson bill to prevent a nation
wide railroad strike, the establish
ment Of government shipping board
to rehabilitate the American mer-
chant marine, creation of non-parti
Fan tariff commission, and many
other Legislative acts of more than
usual Importance.
X. X. Legislation Next.
For the winter session. the Demo-
Gratis look to the railroad legislation
as the dominating feature. Before
the strike emergency. congress,
aroused to the necessity for trans
portation legislation. created a joint
Subcommittee of the senate and
house, headed by Senator Newlands.
to undertake a study of all transpor-
tation problems, including the advis-
Utility of public ownership, and to
recommend legislation. The commit
T. tee already has set November 20 for
the beginning of the hearings on
wide range of subjects.
In addition to the railroad egisia-
tion the next subject of importance
which congress will consider will be
conservation of national resources.
Water power bills which failed this
session are to be revived. So will
measures for the conservation of min
eral resources, and for control of
dee ructive flood waters.
First on the Democratic program,
however, will be the immigration bill,
with it's literacy test, passed by the
house but not by the senate at this
session, and the corrupt practices
act to reform election methods,
which Senator Owen vainly sought to
get onto the statute books before al
journment.
kitchln Proud of Work.
Representative Kitchin, majority
leader of the house and chairman of
the ways and means committee. who
was not always in accord with the
administration on the national de-
tense legislation, said before leaving
The capital today:
''We have put thru more construc-
tive legislation than any other ses-
sion of congress. 1t has been accom-
plshed with good feeling all around.
There has been less bitterness and
less filibustering than in anv prev
ious session within my recollection.
On the Democratic side we have had
united action, and the session has
been eventful and epoch-making."
The Republicans pointed to the APP
,ropriations and authorizations for
he future, amounting close to 81