Show IDEA NOT LIKED BY bf djs THE LEADERS federal license of corporations Is opposed by many in congress UNLIKELY TO BE MADE LAW pension bills bill introduced providing tor for volunteer retired list allt two cities want exposition marking the canal opening washington the republican lead era I 1 in n congress practically have agreed th that at it it can be accomplished tho the majority ot of the tha presidents recommendations ions shall be enacted into law at this session but there Is growing evidence that among the minority of the recommendations which are to be overlooked the presidents wish that a law legalizing the federal licensing of In corporations may not be fulfilled at this session in telling mr air taft that it la is unlikely that his bis federal license law to la to go through the leaders have made a tacit promise that at a future date probably nt at the next session the recommendations ions shall be taken up tip and put through in some form it seems that the plan for the licensing of corporations by the federal government has aroused antagonism among some of the republicans and among a majority of the democrats it Is understood also that the leading republicans in men en who ordinarily can get the rest of the party representatives in line are not overzealous over zealous in their desire that this bill shall become a law certainly not ul at the present time it Is impossible in the absence of any direct statement of 0 the reasons for their objections to tell why it Is that the leaders apparently are determined to postpone no action upon this particular piece of legislation but it seems to be assured that consideration oil of it Is to be postponed until a more convenient season it has been pretty generally understood that ship subsidy was to have hard sailing through gl the waters of the lower house of 0 congress and not very easy sailing balling through those of 0 tho the upper house it Is impossible of course to foretell just what the fate ot of subsidy will be but it seems that one senator who in the past has been the champion of subsidy this year Is not inclined to look with favor upon it the senator in quett question lou ls Is air clr frye ot of maine who apparently does not dot think that the measure recommended mended by the president and already introduced into the house goes anywhere near tar far enough to suit the shipping interests president tatt taft lias has recommended legislation of this kind but the feeling Is in washington that he will not be particularly disappointed if it does not go through although of course its passage would add one more to the administration victories postal savings banks one of the most peculiar situations to Is that in regard to postal savings banks much has been written about this matter arid and in tho the main former opinion was that the postal savings bank bill might have great trouble in getting sanction for itself from tho the leaders of both houses As everybody knows the members of the national monetary commission would prefer that consideration ot of the postal say savings bank bill should be put off until after the commission has made its report president tatt taft however la Is insistent that postal savings bank legislation shall bo be enacted this winter and it Is believed today to day that the leaders have agreed to accede to bla wishes as they have also agreed to do what he wants them to do in the matter of amendments to the interstate commerce law and of laws lawa whitt which will safeguard the interests of the tha nations natural resources bills for veterans Vet erana before the military committee of the house bouse of representatives there are eight principal bills intended to benefit the veterans of the civil war in several of them there la Is a specific p provision 10 vie ton for the creation of what to Is called a volunteer retired list hat for the civil war officers who are still living in the sixteenth congress representative senta tive deeman beeman 0 dawes ot of ohio introduced a bill which if it had bad become a law would have put all the commissioned officers of the civil war on the tha retired list with monthly pay of one half that which they received while they were wearing swords awards lo in the field there Is a retired list for regular off officers and the idea of representative dawes was waa to give to the volunteer officers la in their old age a recognition in part at least of the value of their services as commissioned officers the question seemed to be if the regulars are paid after retirement why not do the same came thing tor for the volunteers representative dawes la Is not now la in congress but the provision in hla his hill bill which was intended to care cara tor tar the volunteer off officers leers has been acor incorporated in several ol of the bills which are now before tho the committee for action it seems probable that before long congress will pass one of these measures and that every man who wore a bar a leaf an eagle or a star on hla hia shoulder during tha civil war and who la is alive aliva today to day lay will be put on practically ue oame came footing as officers of regulars liabo ano after long years of service are retired and paid as though they ere still fighting ia lu tho the field substitute for pensions pension ot of course pensions as an such for or the volunteers will be done away with if any of 0 theun bills passes congress because the retired pay will take the pensions place likely to carry 40 a month it the volunteer oVi cers retired bill passes it la Is possible that it will carry with it a pension giving enlisted men of the civil war a pension ot of so 40 per month each all present pensions boing abolished except in cases of total or almost total disability where the present sum paid to the disabled soldiers exceed 40 per month with the ofil officers cers and enlisted men anti and the widows cared for with these specific sums suma in each case tho the trouble of pension gradations and the chances of fraud are minimized but nevertheless it will cost a huge sum of money the first few years of the measures legal life according to a classification made by gen green 13 raum haum tho the volunteer officers who would benefit are in number and rank as follows major generals two brigadier generals 28 colonels lieutenant colonels majors captains 2633 first lieutenants 2233 second lieutenants 1166 various ranks ranka in the navy this bringing the total up to the number given above of course a full expression of opinion of desirability of such a retired list hat bill as this is not obtainable soldiers and those who take an interest in military affairs generally are much in favor of the measure the civilians who never saw service do not express opinions ioas on the matter in letter form tor for it seems that few people care to go on record as being opposed to anything in the nature of a bill tor for the relief of the men who fought in the field even though there may be and probably Is a general feeling among civilians that the government Is ex x trava gant in the matter of pension payments rivalry for exposition san francisco and san diego dlugo cities of 0 california each wants to bo be the scene acene of a great exposition in t the tl a year 1916 1915 as an a means of marking the opening of tho the panama canal representative senta tive rahn kahn of california has in produced trod into the house a bill which la Is now before the committee on an industrial du atrial arts and expositions to provide for what he designates ne aa the panama pacific exposition representative senta tive smith of 0 california on behalf of the city of san diego desires desire that it shall be the location of what ho he wishes to be called the panama california exposition it Is too early yet to tell whether congress will vote money for government in amy on the pacific coast or elsewhere to be held at the time of tiro the canal opening it la Is assured however that there will be a great celebration on the isthmus of panama at the time that col goethals Goe thala sets for the completion of the great work early as the day la Is it to la believed that the president of the united states and both houses of congress will go to panama to give recognition to the completion of the canal whether or not there shall be a great exposition in the united states Is a matter yet to be decided but it must ba said that california shows that it Is very much in earnest in the matter of getting the governments s sanction for a great exposit exposition iod of arts industries and manufactures on an the pacific coast in the year 1916 1915 when it to Is practically assured the inter oceanic canal will be ba open for traffic few bills before congress considering the fact that this la is a 6 long session of 0 congress comparatively few bills have been introduced into either house or senate there is a marked absence at this session of what Is known as freak bills members of congress are urged constantly by constituents some of whom are a little unbalanced mentally or who belong to the class of extreme en entrust abts to put in bills which no coage congress ess possibly could be brought to pass and no committee could be made even to consider these so called freak bills are introduced by members simply to escape the tha constant appeals of those who want their measures at least to see the light of print in congress there Is thle this winter another determined effort to lay the groundwork for or a plan which when carried to ultimate completion will result in it a great boulevard running from the city ot of washington to the tha battlefield of gettysburg it is fa the intention it if sanction for such a great avenue can be secured to have it known as aa a memorial or of lincoln A survey has been made ot of a road from washington to gettysburg in a straight line between the capitol and the central point of the famous battlefield and it has been found that the road can bo be built without much interference with private property As a matter of fact tho the people who live along tho tha way axy have expressed a desire that the aror work should be carried to completion approve memorial project there are many old eihlers and am men lr jr olli official cial life whose memories men go back to tho the lincoln days and some of whom know knew lincoln personally who think that the noble roadway would be the best beat possible memorial to the tb war time president dent A good deal of 0 sentiment in favor of the proposition has baa been aroused in the country al though it should be maid eald that considerable opposition has been developed mainly because people meem to think that whatever is done in memory of abi abaham abam lincoln should be done so that no real estate transact transactions lons that might be of money value to speculators abo tild be allowed to receive tha sanction of conrest CLINTON i A |