Show CONGRESS Will Willmm GATHER mm AT NOON Little Business Expected to Be Ba Transacted the First Day or First Week SMOOT CASE NEXT MONDAY FORECAST OF TIlE THE T IMPORTANT EVENTS EVENT Both houses bo ses of congress will meet at 11 12 today but notwithstanding a 3 busy session Is expected no no business will be transacted on the first day and comparatively little during the V first week It had been the hope that the legislative executive and judicial ap appropriation appropriation bill could be placed jn n the Calendar of f the house as early as 11 Tuesday Tues da day tay so that the ilie beginning of 01 the con coil consideration of the appropriations could be made almost contemporaneous with the opening of the session but the date of Df the presentation of the report has ha been necessarily postponed so that it is not probable that it will take place be before before belore fore lore Thursday This delay will necessitate necessitate either cither short shoTt dally daily sessions for the perfunctory consideration of some so measure on the calendar which would not under ordinary circumstances re receive attention at so ao O earlY a date Paynes Bill First There has been no decision thus far faras faras faras as to what question will be brought to the front but the preference will ill probably probably ably abl be given to Mr Ir Paynes Payne bill pro providing providing viding Iding for the consolidation of customs districts which ieh was discussed at some sOme length though thought unavailingly unavailing nt at the last session The appropriation a bill will re receive receive attention from front the time it is placed on the desks dests of members and will Kill be kept before beCore the house until it itis Itis itis is finally I n aU disposed of Just how long it will take to get through the house no noone noone noone one will venture to say sa but Chairman Tawney of the appropriation committee Is quite determined that it shall be sent to the senate before b fore Thursday recess It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is also expected that the pension and fortifications appropriation bills will be reported before Christmas but not even een the most sanguine members now count counton on their th lr passage before that date Senate Will Not Hurry The senate Is not counting on doing very much the first week of the tes es sion slon nor is the outlook there good goo for Cor much strenuous labor after the holidays holiday The Thc reason for this is found in the fact that the general desire for Cor forthe forthe Corthe the present is to confine the work of the session largely to appropriation measures and none of these can be ta taken taken taken ken up by b the senate until sent over oer overby overby by the house There is no possibility of the senates even een seeing any an of these the e bills except the legislative before Christmas and it s 51 so o happens that near nearly nearly ly I all the members mbel of C the subcommittees tees which will vIll hav charge of that bill are arc coming up fo rejection re r during the coming winter As a consequence there will be bo a very er slim attendance of o such members during the early days of the session the result being that the consideration of or the th bill even in com corn committee committee will most likely be postponed until after the holiday recess re l I Bill and Smoot Case There is one ont item of general legisla legislation legislation legislation tion on the senates calendar of unfinished business namely Senator La bill limiting the number of hours railway may ma be kept at work during luring each day da and the vote ote oteis I is set for Cor Jan 10 The probabilities are arc that Senator LaFollette will tili 11 desire to discuss it but it is not anticipated that even enn he will wish irish to take it up during the first few days ays of the session The report of the committee on privileges and elections el on the right of or Senator Smoot of Utah to retain his seat will I be taken up during the second s cond week of the session and ami probably on Monday londa the instant The proceedings in both houses to today today today day will be he of or the most formal charac character ter They will consist of the routine business of appointing committees by each body bod to notify the other and by byboth byboth byboth both to notify the president and in the house of the call of the roll and the administration of oath of office to the new members After this proceeding the attention of the house will be of officially officially tidally directed to the fact that four our prominent members of that body Hitt Hoar Ketcham and I Adams have died since the close of the last session and a motion for ad adjournment adJournment adjournment out of respect to them will m VV immediately follow Presidents Message Tuesday The presidents message will wilt not be I II received until u nUl Tuesday and both bot I houses hOU ses will probably adjourn for the day da as I soon as lS it is read It is expected that the nomination of Attorney General I i Moody to succeed Justice Brown on the supreme bench will be made the first nomination to be sent in by the th president president dent and there will be he an effort to se secure secure secure cure its immediate Some senators evince a disposition to hold holdup holdup holdup up the matter but the present indica indications indications i are for prompt action as all ap appreciate appreciate predate the importance of having a full bench as soon as practicable Conference at Des Moines On Wednesday day an important conven convention than tion will be opened at t Des Moines la Ta with the object of f setting on ott foot a movement for the election of United States senators senator by direct vote ote of the people The meeting will be held on the invitation of the state of Iowa the leg legislature legIslature legIslature of that state having haYing adopted a resolution calling for the convention This action was as taken on OJ the ilie of ot Governor Cummins who ho went be before before before fore the legislature and urged that the state should take steps directly for an amendment to the national constitution constitution tion Uon instead of seeking to have congress con V ress take action Some governors have written Governor Cummins that they are heartily in favor of the movement and thirty have la appointed delegates If the convention decides that it t is worth worthwhile I while to go ahead with the movement a p committee will twIll be appointed to take ta e eup up the subject with state legislatures With Witt the coming of tho the new state of ot Oklahoma it will require the cooperation Lion tion cf state legislatures tures to secure from congress a call for tor or a con cop constitutional convention lY Bike Race The annual annu l bicycle race wll be begun at the Madison Square Gar Garden Garden Garden den next Sunday night with most of or orthe the various national en cn entered entered t r d for the contest Professor proC sor Burgess of Columbia uni university the RoS professor at the University of or Berlin Berhn whose reference to the t h e Monroe Jonroe doctrine d i ne in i n his h is inaugural i pd dress caused considerable comment is to deliver dellvera a lecture re before o elation of Political Science of Cologne Yon Y on American Am liberty Emperor William has hu instructed his fourth son Prince e August William to attend the lecture V Papal Consistory The Tho pope will 11 hold secret and public consistories during the week The pon pen pontiff pontiff tiff will deliver an allocution in tn which it is lIS i believed to be certain that men mention mention tion thon will be made of the church and andI tate state situation in France confer the I red hat on Monsignor Joseph who was created a cardinal in 1905 and announce the appointment of 01 residential residential residential and titular bishops including three Americans and four Canadians and Newfoundlanders |