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Show CGNGRE55 WILL GRIND Oil BILLS FOR MANY WEEKS Anxious Candidates Want to Go Home to Repair Their Fences, but Prospects Pros-pects Are Slim RAILWAY INQUIRY WILL OPEN TODAY Pennsylvania System Is Charged With Bottling Up Southern Coal Fields WASHINGTON July 19 Charges made by Benjamin L, Dulaney of B stol Tenn that the Pennsylvan a system and Its allied lines have bottled up southern coal f e ds in the nterest of the coa trust will be investigated by a spec al committee headed by Senator Bryan whose hearings will open tomorrow Mr Dulaney w 1 be the first witness and will be fol owed by F C Wright a rate expert, who will make an ana 3 sis of coal rates The spec al comm ttee has also asked officials for t e various railways con cerned to appear and it is 1 kely that either the pres dent or general manager of the Southern Seaboard Atlantic Coast ine, Chespeake & Ohio and other lines touching southern coal d stricts will be heard. Dam Bill Pending The Ada son general dam bl 1, In volvlng tl e government po icy toward the deve opme t of water power and the In provernenx PrCji,9.yl'a)tJboptois.4e,bla ptnd Ing bus ness in the house th a week An effort wi 1 be made tomorrow to secure unanimous consent for passage of a bl I to pro Ide for temporary development of oil lands claims to which are in dispute partlcu arly In California The b 11 would al ow the development of the and under agreements to be made by the secretary of the interior with the claimants which agreements It is ex pected will provide for a payment of roy altles to the government. The public lands committee before the house meets will cons der and probably indorse an amendment to be framed by Secretary of the Jsavy Danle s designed to protect any rights the navy may have in o 1 lands withdrawn from entry and designated as naval oil reserves Comes Up Tuesday The dam bill w 11 come up Tuesday It j would authorize federal permits for con structlon of dams or dams and locks for development of hydrau la power for serv Ice to the communities along navigable streams the permits to run for fifty jears with pro ision for government acquisition of the dams after that period if desirable The advocates of the bl 1 lay especial stress on the argument that it wi 1 prove a great factor in deve oplna: streams that are now too shallow for nav gation pur poses There has been oppos tion on the ground that these permits would tend toward monopoly of the natural re sources Much of the opposition, how ever has been broken through White house conferences Relief of Settlers Wednesday the house will consider aga n the bill extend ng f om ten to twenty years the period in which set tiers on government and may pay the government the cost of irrigation work on the lands they occupy Tomorrow the naval committee will meet to go over the I st of off cers whom the nava p uck ng board recently re t red The inqu ry was prec p tated by the activities of the fr ends of Captain John Gibbons Captain John N Potts and J N Veeder Meanwhile members of congress who are stand ng valiant y by the adminlstra tlon in the effort to comp ete its legis latlve programme, despite the approach ing campaign although admitt ng they I are weary of leg s at e duties and anx lous to get home to their d stricts have !res gned themse ves to the cone us on ! that there is litt e hope for adjournment . before fall Antitrust Bills Again this week the chief business of the senate w 1 be to press the antl trust b lis with a hope of getting a real start in general debate on the inter state trade coramlss on bi and to com plete the revis on of the Clayton bi 1 and the Rayburn secur ties measure in com mlttee so that they may be submitted to the senate The Clayton bil probably wl 1 be ready by Tuesday and Senator New ands chairman of the Interstate commerce comm ttee opes to have the se urlt es b 11 perfected before the end of the wee At last s t weeks of d scusslon on these trust measures js contemp ated n the sen ate although some Repub can senators ins st that It w be n uch longer than that before a 1 can be passed There st 1 remains t e probabi tv that the three bis will be conso dated Into one If that a done the egis at ve task may not be so p olonged One Cause of Delay One t ng that prom ses to de aj the trust prog amme is the d ffi u les which have arisen over the nominat ons of Thomas D Jones of Chicago and Pau M Warburg of New York as members of the federal resen e board The sen ate seems stll to e dead ocked o er the confl mat on of M Jones admin stra on hamp ons of the Ch cago man sti 1 ho ding back a vote In an effort to w n (Continued on Pae Two ) CONGRESS TO GRIND FOR WEEKS TO COME (Continued from Page One.) over some of the r col eagues who op pose his conflrmat on What may deve op w th regard to Mr Warburg s nom nat on rema ns in doubt members of t e bank ng committee hav n cea ed to cons der the ma ter in v ew of Mr Warburg s refusa to appear be fo e them. Pres dent W son s desire to have the new Bryan peace treat es rat fled befo e adjournment is anothe matter that may pro ong the sess on The t ea es twen y n a a e to be subm ted to the senate w th n the next few days A these th ngs togethe with uncom p e ed app opria ons egls ation Berve to conv nee man membe s that cong ess can not get away for a long t me One Democratic senator asserted ton ght that the sess on m ght cont nue unt the next sess on n December PRINCE BADLY HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT By Internationa News Service FREEPORT N Y July 19 Prince Ludov c P gnate i d dragon son of one of the most anc ent French fam es as serious y nju ed today n an automo b e co s on on he Jierr ck road near he e E V O Conne who was d v ng the car with which the pr nee co ded was a so thrown from the mach ne and knocked unconscious though he s not so bad y injured as the p ce w o suf fered severa b oken r bs and deep cu a on the face and head The p Ince was taken to h s summer home Bo h au omob es we e vrecked, and the prnce and O Conne I we e found by po cemen lying In the roadway sense ess O Conne who was t en o the Nassau hosp ta dec ares he p nee was running at s xty m Ies an hour upon he wrong s de of the road |