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WHAT WAS DONE AND LEFT UN¬
DONE BY THE NATIONAL
LAWMAKERS
RESULTS IN EXTRA SESSION
Ftvi Things of Importance Were Ac¬
complished in the Last
Short Session.
Washington.—In the retrospect the
Sixty-first congress, -which has just
expired by constitutional limitation,
appears to have been distinguished
by three things: the revision of the
tariff in the so-called Payne-Aldrich
bill, which was passed at an extra
session in the summer of 1909; the
large amount of important legislation,
much of it upon the recommendation
of President Taft, enacted at the reg¬
ular session of 1909-1910, and the ex¬
ceedingly small product of the '‘short
session," so-called, now closed.
The interval between the last two
sessions was marked by the political
upheaval registered at the general
election of last November, which
changed a large Republican majority
In the house of representatives, cut
the Republican majority in the sen¬
ate almost to the vanishing point and
incidentally effecting striking changes
in the senate personnel.
The failure of this session to enact
much important legislation has re¬
sulted in the practical certainty that
the new Sixty-second congress will be
tailed almost immediately in extraor¬
dinary session, especially by reason
of the strong desire of President Talt
to , secure action upon the pending
reciprocity agreement with Canada, to
the consummation of which the con-
tnjicting parties pledged the utmost
efforts of the two governments.
In "strong contrast with the support
which the Taft administration receiv¬
ed from the Republican majority in
the matter of legislation in the regu¬
lar session of 1909-10 Is the fact that
.at the present session the majority
las been anything but united; the
reciprocity agreement was passed in
the , house by the aid of a large pro¬
portion of Democratic votes, while in
the senate the rift in the majority be¬
tween the “Regulars" and "Insurg¬
ents" has been an important factor
In its sidetracking and in the conse¬
quent summoning of the extra ses¬
sion.
To this division in the majority was
largely due the most dramatic fea¬
ture of the previous long session—the
protracted and .sensational conflict
last spring which ended in material
changes in the rules of the house gen¬
erally interpreted as “the overthrow
of the speaker,” and which after a
bitter fight lasting many hours and
including an all-night struggle, stop¬
ped only just short of the actual un¬
seating of Speaker Cannon, While
the acrimony between Regulars and
Insurgents neither began nor ended
with the battle over the rules, that
v.aa its mo3t conspicuous episode, and
there has been little peace between
Ihe factions since in either house.
Hr, the senate the most sensational
feature of this session was the un¬
availing effort, in which the Insurg¬
ents wore most active, to unseat
William Lorimer as junior senator
from Illinois, on the ground of alleg¬
ed bribery in connection with his
election by the legislature of that
.state in the spring of 1909. The ech¬
oes of this battle are still reverberat¬
ing, and its bitterness added friction
to the closing hours of the senate
session.
t Another important recent action of
1 the lution senate embodying was the a defeat proposed of the amend reso¬
meet to the Constitution of the Unit¬
ed States to provide for the direct
election of senators by the people.
This resolution receive^ more than
a majority of the senate, but It need¬
ed a tv/o-thirds vote, and fell short
by only 4- Had the senate passed it
the house almost certainly would have
done so. The friends of this propo-
sltirn entertain liille doubt that it
will pace the next congress and go
to the senate for ratification or do-
feat.
The output of till* ss?sior. In the
way of general measures consists
chioljy of the appropriation bills, and
several of those seemed in danger
Burglars Get Fortune.
Daytona. Fla.—A series of robber¬
ies culminating with the burglary of
the henie of Mrs. Roger Whitfield at
Seabreeze, is estimated to have net¬
ted a gang of burglars moio than
*t0,GC0 In jow’elry. According to the
report of Mrs. Whin field, jewelry val¬
ued at $25,000 was secured from hoi
home, Including a pearl brooch and
two diamond pendants worth $10,000.
This robbery followed the buiglariz-
Ing of the homes of E s R. Hotchkiss
‘here and J. D. Prlc» at Ormond.
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more than once in the tense sit¬
uation of the last few days, when
long hours passed away in filibuster¬
ing on one side or the other.
Thousands of bills have been intro¬
duced and several thousand more
came to the closing session as a her¬
itage from the first and second ses¬
sions. In all, there were between 35,-
000 and 45,000 measures before the
congress when it came to a close.
Failure eo enact many laws was not
due to lack of raw material.
These are some of the more import
ant measures, outside appropriation
bills, that the final session of this
congress enacted into law;
Providing for forest reserves in the
southern Appalachian and White
mountains.
Providing for the inspection of boil¬
ers on locomotives.
Providing for the purchase or erec¬
tion of embassies, legations and con¬
sular buildings abroad.
An ocean mail bill passed the sen¬
ate, but the house did not manifest
enough liking for it to send It on to
the white house.
Barren as the final session may
have been of fruitful legislation, the
Republican leaders point to the pre
ceding sessions as more fruitful.
For the first, or extra session, they
point to;
The Payne-Aldrich tariff act, with
its maximum and minimum features
and corporation tax provisions, and
its customs court.
The resolution providing for an in
come tax amendment to the Constitu¬
tion.
For the first regular session they
refer to laws for;
Establishment of postal savings
banks.
Admission of New Mexico and Ari¬
zona to statehood.
The most extensive census evci
taken.
Creation of the commerce courts,
and sweeping amendments to the in¬
terstate commerce act.
Balliuger-Pinchot investigation.
Conservation legislation, including
authorization of withdrawal of public
lands to preserve water sites, and au¬
thorization of the issue of $20,000,000
in bonis for completing Irrigating
projects.
Legislation designed to suppress
the "white slave trade."
Publicity of campaign contributions
at election of members of the house.
Amendment to the employers' lia¬
bility act of 1908; supplemental safe¬
ty appliance act; requirement that
railroads report accidents to interstate
commerce commission, and establish
rr.ent of a bureau of mines.
Reorganization of lighthouse serv-
ice.
Authorization of expenditure of $28,-
000,000 for public buildings.
HIGH LICENSE IN ALABAMA.
One Saloon in Birmingham for Every
3,000 Inhabitants of the City.
Montgomery, Ala.—The house of
representatives passed the Smith bill,
which regulates the sale of liquor in
Alabama by a vote of 58 to 27.
A number of amendments were of¬
fered arid few adopted. Walker Per¬
cy of Birmingham got in an amend¬
ment fixing the saloon license in his
county at $3,000 and the number ol
saloons to one for every 3,000 inhabit¬
ants. His amendment to take the pow¬
er of appointing the excise boards out
of the hands of the governor failed.
The Smith bill fixes the license in
Mobile and Montgomery at $1,500 and
in Mobile one saloon to every 750
people, and in Montgomery one to
every 1,000.
Excise boards are created to con¬
trol the sale of liquor, and the Wiley
pure food regulations are adopted to
govern the quality of liquors to be
sold. This measure is said to be the
most stringent ever enacted in any
state in the Union.
“Hookworms of World."
Chicago,—“The Hookworms of the
World," a fraternal organization
among members of the National As¬
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sociation of Retail Hardware Dealers,
will be organized at the next annual
convention to be held in Little Rock,
Ark.
Wyoming Bars Prize Fights.
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Governor Cary
vetoed the Umshler bill legalizing
prize fights of 25 rounds in Wyoming.
Merger of Cotton Mills.
Boston, Mass.—One millions dol¬
lars has been subscribed by Boston
capitalists for the proposed merger
of nine big cotton mill industries, all
valued at $10,000,000, to be known un¬
der the consolidation as the Fnrkers
Mills company. This will be the third
largest concern of its kind in the
world, being exceeded in number ot
spindles only by the Amoskeag corpo¬
ration, of Manchester, N, H., and the
New' England Cotton Yarn company.
The mills which it is proposed to
merge are all in South Carolina.
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Congressman From Ninth District of
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PRESIDENT CALLED NEW CON¬
GRESS IN THE FACE OF MOST
TREMENDOUS PRESSURE.
TARIFF MAY BE REVISED
Democratic Leaders Realize That
There Can Be No Sudden Re¬
duction of Tariff Duties.
Washington.—Within the hour fol¬
lowing the close of the Sixty-first
congress President Taft issued a proc¬
lamation calling the new congress to
meet in extraordinary session Tues
day, April 4.
At that time he will submit tor rat¬
ification to a house overwhelmingly
Democratic and to a senate barely
Republican the reciprocity agreement
with Canada. The McCall bill, carry
ing that agreement into effect and
passed by the house, met death at
the hands of the old senate, which
had been freely predicted for it.
The president, well warned—if not
entirely reconciled to the fate In store
for the measure—was at the capital
to witness the obsequies. The
was not allowed at any time to come
up in the senate for a moment’s con
sideration.
The permanent tariff board bill—
forced to its passage through a re¬
luctant senate—was hurried over to
the house, there to be strangled by
a Democratic filibuster. The presi¬
dent, in the room reserved for him
in the senate lobby, heard the news
with resignation. Congress provided
funds to continue the work of t.ie
temporary tariff board for another
year.
There is little doubt now that the
Democrats of the house will under¬
take to revise at least two or three
of the schedules of the Payue-Ald
rich tariff act, and there is every rea
son to believe that theso bills will
be favorably received in the new sen¬
ate— the increased Democratic and
Inourgent strength in that body giv¬
ing a majority to the principle of a
further revision of the tariff down¬
ward. it is supposed also that so
long as the new schedule does not
flagrantly violate the policy of protec¬
tion, President Taft will not withhold
his approval of it. He has announc¬
ed, however, that if a general revis¬
ion, in violation of the protective pol¬
icy, should be inaugurated, he would
not hesitate to use the power of the
veto.
How long the extra session will last
is problematical. While the new con¬
gress may promptly ratify the reci¬
procity agreement, some Democrats
are in favor of withholding confirma¬
tion until two or three new tariff
scedules are ready. If tariff differ¬
ences should arise between tile new
house and the senate, the session un¬
questionably would be a long one.
In this connection, however, the In¬
teresting fact was developed that the
president has a constitutional right
to bring the session to an end in case
the two houses of congress cannot
agree upon a time for adjournment.
Such action. It is admitted, would be
revolutionary, and there is thought to
be little likelihood that any president
would care to invoke the power vest¬
ed in him by Section 3, Article 2, of
the Constitution.
Flower Shower for Lorimer.
Chicago—Admirers of Senator Wil¬
liam Lorimer to the number of sev
eral thousand greeted him here upon
his return from Washington. Two
hundred and fifty automobiles, form
ing a parade, escorted the senator
from the station to his residence.
Senator Lorimer was accompanied by
former Judge Elbridge Hanecy and
five detectives, who met him at Fort
Wayne, Ind. When he passed through
the station it required seventy police¬
men to keep the crowd from swarm¬
ing over his escort.
Before Men of National and International Fame, Importance of the Southern States to
Nation is Demonstrated—President Taft Addresses
Atlanta.—Significant in breadth and
contrast of a half century of achieve¬
ments that cannot be approached In
history, and heralding the dawning of
a new day in Southern commeicial-
lsm the convention of the Southern
Commercial Congress was held in At¬
lanta.
The congress marked an epoch in
the progress of the New South and
commanded the interest of the entire
nation. It was undoubtedly the very
largest gathering of great men ever
held in the South, and was attended
by many of the leaders of the nation.
President Taft and former President
Roosevelt both delivered addresses,
and among others who spoke were
Secretary James Wilson of the de
partment of agriculture, George Wes-
tinghouse of Pittsburg, the famous
inventor of the air brake; Charles H,
Sherman, minister to Argentine, for¬
mer Senator James B. Gordon of Mis¬
sissippi, Dr. Elmer E. Brown, Wood
row Wilson, governor of New Jer¬
sey, and hosts of others, Including for-
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members, leaders in all branches of
activities and numerous governors.
The lar-reaching effect it will have
on the South, and particularly Atlan¬
ta and Georgia, can never be told.
While industrial developments and
agricultural progress and possibilities
of the South stood out pre-eminently
throughout the sessions, solidification
of the North and South in the devel¬
opment of the nation was set forth
as never before.
The program was perhaps the most
imposing ever brought together in the
history of the nation. It was divided
into eight main divisions.
1. Welcome and general statement.
2. External views of the South.
3. The solid South of business.
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4. The world as a market for the
South.
5. Making the New South under¬
stood.
6. A review of the business forces.
7. Section meetings.
8. The South’s higher thought.
A unique division of the program
was that entitled “The Solid South of
Business." In this division one man
spoke for each of the sixteen states
covered by the work of the Southern
Commercial Congress.
On the third day there were four¬
teen meetings, held simultaneously.
The chairmen of these meetings were
distinguished along these lines. The
section meetings and their chairmen
were: Agriculture, H. 0. Holmstead
of the department of agriculture ;
Commerce, Bernard D. Baer, Balti¬
more, Md.; Finance, Adolph Busch,
secretary of commerce ; Education,
Commissioner E. E. Brown; Forestry,
Henry E. Hartner of Louisiana con¬
servation commission, Urania, La. :
Good Roads, Director Logan Walter
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Governor of Louisiana.
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Ambassador From Francs.
Pegg, office of public roads, Wash¬
ington; Health, Surgeon
Walter Wyman, bureau of public
health and marine; Immigration. T.
V. Powderiy, bureau of immigration
and naturalization, Washington, D.
C.; Land Reclamation, Edward Wiser,
New Orleans; Manufacturers, Harry
Wise, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mines and
Mining, Director Janies Emeas, Pitts¬
burg; State Advertisement, Robert
Jamison, Jr., Birmingham, Ala.; Wa¬
ter Resources, John Finney, Washing
ton, D. C.
In each section there were speech¬
es by men equally distinguished. In
the section devoted to education
ident Carlton B. Gibson of Rochester,
N. Y., spoke on “Technical and In¬
dustrial Education for the South ;■■
President S. C. Mitchell of the Uni¬
versity of South Carolina, on “Educa-
tion for Constructive
State and National," and T. H. Har¬
ris, state superintendent of public in¬
struction in Louisiana, on "Taxation
as Related to Education."
In the section devoted to agricul¬
ture Commissioner E. J. Watson of
South Carolina spoke on “The Cereals
of the South;” Professor Benett of
Paris, Texas, nationally known for
his command of the subject, “The Na¬
tional Importance of Cotton," and J.
A Evans of Shreveport, La., on “Di¬
versification in Southern Agriculture."
These discussions led to a number
of resolutions on the growth and de¬
velopment of the nation. The climax
of the congress came in the speech
of President Taft on “A Greater Na¬
tion Through a Greater South.”
Set speeches were made by the fol¬
lowing national characters;
Ambassador Jusserand—“Old France
to New France."
Col. Theodore Roosevelt—"Tli
South's Obligation in Statesmanshi
and Business Endeavor."
Secretary James Wilson of the De¬
partment of Agriculture—“The Agri¬
cultural Obligation of the South."
Col. Henry Watterson—“The Pro-
motive Power of the Southern Press. 1 *
Mr. William G. McAdoo—“Develop*
ing Southern Transportation.”
Mr. Edward Hines, President Na*-
tional Lumber Manufacturers’ Associ
ation, Chicago, Ill.—“Perpetuating the
South’s Lumber Wealth.”
Mr. Asa G. Candler—“Southern Pa¬
triotism in Business Endeavor.”
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher—“Tn«
Southern Renaissance."
Mr. A. M. Harris of N. W. Harris
& Co.—“The Field for Southern
Bonds."
Hon. John Barrett, Director Inter-*
national Bureau of American Repub¬
lics—“The South’s Obligation in
South America.”
Gen. Julian S. Carr, Second Vice
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Minister to the Argentine Republic.
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Secretary of War.
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Secretary of Agriculture.
President Southern Commercial Con
gress—Response to the Address ol
Welcome by the Governor of Georgia
Mr. Clarence J. Owens, commander
in-chief United Sons of Confederat*
Veterans.
The following governors were in at
tendance on the Commercial Con
gress:
Gov. J. Y. Sanders of Louisiana.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jer
sey.
Gov. Augustus E. Wilson of Ken
tucky.
Gov. Cole L. Blease of South Can
olina.
Gov. Emmett O’Neal of Alabama.
Gov. E. F. Noel of Mississippi.