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Show CONGRESSIONAL WORK. If it ia a' foregone conclusion that the reciprocity reciproc-ity pact will be ratified by the senate, it is hard to understand why the vote ia not pressed to a eonclu- sionTaad Vnf congrea doe Tiot adjourn. j Is there any important legislation contemplated contem-plated t W have seen bo hint of any such thing. The prosecution of (he trust could go or. just s well during recess as when congress is in session. Is there any change in the financial policy being contemplated t Is the fact that our export trade bat been killed by cur own legislation a matter worth the attention of congress! ' Is the other fact that while the Panama canal is nearing completion the United States haa no ahipa to sail through it except a warship now and then worth the attention of congress t la the other fact that while the net pronti of the republic, on paper, figure np billions of dollars annually, we are nevertheless, as a nation, na-tion, merely living from hand to mouth, worth any consideration on the part of congress! Are there any more bonds to be voted T . We should be glad to see some investigating- et rnmitts appointed and then see congress a J-jourt. J-jourt. Wa would like to see a committee sent to Alaska to Investigate the coal situation and try to And out why the people there', lmne; elose beside some marvelous coal measures, ara obliged to send t Japan and China for coal and to pay for the imported im-ported coal 117 per toa. We ahould like to aee a congressional committee with the aecretary of the interior come to Utah and have the aeeretary explain to the committee why U waa thought wise to plaee a price ou coal which tu man or company could afford to pay. and which gives the men and companies who have perfected titles to coal lands a monopoly of the trade f Or why an Indian reservation waa stretched over a great portion of Saa Juan county in. this state, where there are no Indiana, and in a region where sa Indian would die of atarvation or of loneliness ia six weeks were, he eaught and held there! ' . , Wa wonld like to see a committee sent to the orient to ascertain why oar export trade to half the ichabitantt of the earth ia killed, and why it is that the orient eaa ship her preduete to ua 60 per eent cheaper thta ahe could twenty years ago f And what the nature of the products she is shipping to us is. and what ..the result ia going to be upon American labor when those imports ahall expand a little morel We ahould like to see another committee sent to England and the continent to investigate, first, what profit England mkkea on the silver which she buys from us and then ships to India and the Straits Settlements. And also what Great Britain pays out of her imperial treasury annually to keep her merchant ships runniug to all the world's principal prin-cipal ports. , i These committees could make some interesting reports to lay before congress when it meets in December, De-cember, especially aa next year ia going to be a presidential election year, and each party must go to the people and explain to the people why it is entitled to the confidence of voters. gome of these questions are so momentous that they make the squabbles in congress over reciprocity recipro-city aad the tariff look rather small by comparison. We are not sure that this country is not becoming becom-ing too lsrge for one capital ; not sure but it would be a good idea to have a branch capital in the west, the business of which would be to look out for the country's needs aad report thera to the parent cono.rn at Washington. - i |