Show or WHAT CONGRESS PROPOSES NOW I Elastic Army Bill to Suit the Couo Coun I N Needs oads I I ES G Ul U tn In to Silly tu to bu III S Special lal nee Iee Con grese erel did nut lIot actually assemble lemble until today todar there was Willi more work In lat last week than Is III done In Weeks when Cengr l is In session Ion It h hn has been n the very necessary work ot of getting bills billa In shape so 10 there will J be no d diM In getting thIt reo le ported to the house lIOUN and keeping that bod body bus busy The ways s and means mean hu completed om lett the hIlI to reduce the war t tAxes x but has not made It will not nol do so 0 until It IL l Is re rePorted Ported tO 10 the house the on militAry affairs hat has about a agreed t d to tore re report Ott the bill prepared b by the war d tie which provIdes for tor a regular army tie strength of which shall Iball be men and ami the minimum strength 3 oo men the commIttee on liver und and harbors Is tile the which shall be Included In th the river and harbor bill but has hils not yet et got tar far enough advanced to make an intelligent estimate of the total al although although though It Is expected that the bill will carry arry In the neighborhood of and the committee 00 tIP lIne hall completed the judIciAl amt ami executive op bill whIch will our carry about SHIP Shill SUBSIDY OPPOSED Tile The shill bill I not to have It It gets get through at this of Congress Burton ot of OhIo chaIrman ot of the House Houle committee on rivers and harbors Is out flatfooted against t It ane and other lie Ite Including several of the Indiana delegation are re express expressIng Ing opposition to the bill as 18 It stand It If endorsed by the party the I bill can all be put through the house easy eAllY enough but It If there Is III determIned op Ol positIon In the Senate Senat It can be up I as eull easily there hull of Iowa lowll of the house Houle committee on affaIrs is III also allO enrolled among the opponents ot of the bill WANT CU CUBA A A Although the admInistration I Is pledged to 10 the absolute independence of Cuba powerful are work log Ing with the that Cuba ruba will be annexed of being loads modi tree free Inasmuch all an this government will sure ly Iy keep keell Its pledges Cuba Cub would seem m to be the Illace for fer the these influences to work and not u as the only honorable way 00 that annexation can be brought about will be for tor the Cubans Cuban through a ot of their own t to l ask k for tor It That annexation would be a go good cl thing for Cuba Is generally Id ad 1 milled but It J is by br no so certain It would be a ROOd good thing for tor tile the United States unless emigration results result In ili AmerIcanIzing the tue RH aM man many believe bellee It will In the thc near future FIGHT FOIt NW RULES The old old light for a cloture rule In th the Senate Is again to be made and th the result I to h be the same It is III doing just all 55 they leUI hu hut tit It II just what those f rules tules of If thO were for and tho IS fl h hal hi hial al Ii a 1 U it majority In th itt nate who believed that It was RII ii 1 god thing to have one legislative brall h of lr the gover am nt through I could be b railroaded all as lon long as aM there was II a desire to discuss It and more than once these thue long dIscussions have convinced the country that the measure dIscussed 1 ought not to pass paN even though It 11 could get t a majority It II voted upon by the Senate Benat CUTTING DO DOWN It II I among the legislative probabilities UN ties that the reduction to be made mad In internal revenue taxation by Y tile the bill which II now beIng prepared by the tle blouse wa ways and means mAn committee will willbe willbe be about doubled when the bill roes goes to the Senate The amount of reduction aImed at by the house committee Is II about I a year ear but anum a num br of senator lenton have expressed th the opinion that It should hould bf be at least leut twice is much and the they will tt try to put their opinions opinion Into ON Of Till TIlE FLOUT The brewers brewen are lighting hard to let get leta geta a reduction In the tho tax on beer Mtr of their association sought to get t the I President committed to help them but he wu was too war wary for or them 11 lie listened to 10 aU all their reasons In the shape ot of Ihu In log why h the tax ought to be reduced and then told them that he would see e that the were brought to the th attention of the mem pm hers 18 of the committee no now consIdering tile subject The brewers have about abandoned hope of getting anything from the committee anti are lug to carry the fight into Inlo Congress where whre they believe they can concert concen concentrate trite enough enouch pull to pt get the tion tile they are re after OI 01 SENATOR DA DAVIS IS DEATH Senator Davis death although ex cx for or several days daI was I a shock to not most In Washington In lOg tilt and hI hIs In inthe th the Few men In pUblic life lite have ilave had more or warmer personal 1110 18 I friends At 11 chairman n or of the Senate commIttee on foreign relations relation h he has had much to do with shaping tile the for tor foreign eign of the present resent both through legislation and Rd ad advice vice Ice As Senator Martin of Virginia Virginiaa a opponent saId ot of him While It a strict part man Ito be was Wail never II a partisan It II can an be trul truly said of Senator Davis that he will be Although It Is II not certain It Is III probable able alJo that Senator Frye who ho is III theo the ranking member ot of the Sen Senate ate tt tor foreIgn relations relation I committe It will 11 act as chairman ot of that committee during durin this session ot of Congress leaving I the place to be filled filed at t the tue first sessIon of the next ConJe when numerous other which will willbe t be left by retirIng will have to be Oiled a |