Prohibiting corporation campaign contributions.
Shipping Bill.

To make Porto Ricans United States citizens.
Reduction of tariff on products of Philippines.

United States to own its Embassies and Legations abroad.
To build Government powder factory.

Appalachian and White Mountain forest reserves.

Copyright revision.

Modification of Chinese exclusion law.

Prescribing punishments on high seas.
Codification of Revised Statutes.

Navy to have biggest battleship afloat.

Removal of customs duty on works of art.

Swamp reclamation similar to irrigation statute.
Cable to Guantanamo and canal zone.

Anti-injunction bill.

Eight-hour law.

Army and Navy Dental Surgeon Corps.

Increase of Artillery Corps.

To punish improper use of the Stars and Stripes.
Retirement of superannuated federal clerks.

To establish postal savings banks and parcels post.
Limiting working hours of railway employes.

WHAT CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT HAVE DONE.

It is a record of great achievement which the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress leaves behind it. We may question, indeed, whether there has been a Congress session since the Civil War that has more closely held the public attention or dealt affirmatively with so many matters of vital public interest. Let us catalog the more important enactments of the session:

The power of the Government Commission to fix maximum railroad rates within the limits of reasonableness has been restored in the interstate commerce law, and Government control of railroads otherwise greatly extended.

Federal inspection of foods at the sources of interstate supply, with restrictions in regard to adulterations, has been enacted after years of fruitless agitation in Congress.

The meat-packing industry has been brought under far closer federal inspection and restriction.

There has been enacted, also after years of fruitless effort, a provision freeing from prohibitive internal revenue taxes alcohol for use in manufactures, the arts, and as a source of energy for heating, lighting and motor purposes-a provision of incalculable importance for many industries.

Oklahoma and Indian Territory have been admitted to the Union of the States, and a conditional admission of Arizona and New Mexico provided.

A national employers' liability act, affecting railroads chiefly, has been passed, modifying radically in the interests of employes the loose common-law rules regarding the same.

Measures have also been passed restricting within what are deemed constitutional bounds the immunity privilege in trust and railroad prosecutions; permitting national banks to lend 10 per cent. of capital and surplus to a single borrower, instead of 10 per cent. of capital alone, the loan in no case to exceed 30 per cent. of capital; and providing for an enlargement in the circulation of money of small denominations.

As against these acts of commission there have been acts of omission. But of great matters before Congress what was left undone is insignificant compared with what has been done.--Springfield Republican.

SPEECH OF REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, OF MICHIGAN, JUNE 26, 1906, CONCERNING WORK OF FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS.

Mr. Townsend said: Mr. Chairman, the wise business man at the end of the year or on the completion of an enterprise stops and takes account of stock and considers results. It seems to me not unwise during the last days of this session to pause a moment and review the records of what has been done.

This I believe will be recorded as one of the most important sessions, measured by real benefit to all of the people, that has ever been held by the American Congress. It has not only enacted wise and beneficial legislation, but it has established principles of great and lasting importance. (Applause.)

Republican Credit.

The Government has been Republican in all of its branches. That party must stand and answer for whatever of good or bad has been accomplished. The minority in Congress may claim credit if it chooses for helping or hindering; but the majority has been sufficient to accomplish what has been done, and every great law has been enacted by votes enough in number to have carried the measure had every Democrat in each House voted against it.

It is due the minority to say it has demonstrated unusual and unexpected statesmanship and patriotism by going with the majority and making some of the votes unanimous, but the result would have been the same had it seen fit to do otherwise.

When the fifty-ninth Congress assembled in December, 1905, it was presented with some of the most important problems ever offered to the National Legislature.

Panama Canal.

The Panama Canal, the largest enterprise in the world's history, had been determined upon, but the organization of the ways and means for its construction had not been accomplished. This stupendous undertaking had no precedent in history upon which the Administration could rely for guidance. The great problems of sanitation, labor, and type of canal were not solved when this Congress convened. The President and the Fiftyninth Congress have solved them now, and the canal is an assured fact and already under construction. The expenses to date have been paid, and provisions have been made for the ensuing year. The money will be expended under laws insuring honesty and economy.

Railroads.

Responding to its duty to promote the general welfare, the Congress under authority of the commerce clause of the Constitution has established by enactment into law the great and all-important principle that public service corporations are corporations for public service, and while sanely and wisely recognizing the necessity of these organizations and the importance of their success, it has served notice upon greedy, avaricious, and unconscionable corporate wealth and power that this is to be a government of law and order, administered for the benefit of all the people. (Applause.)

The bill will, in my judgment, secure to a large degree equality and justice to all.

Do not understand me as saying that the measure will be all that some of its advocates desire or think. But so great and important is the subject, so complex in its nature, and so great a departure in many respects from past methods that it is best to administer the law as enacted, in order to determine what, if any, change shall be made hereafter.

Conceded evils of transportation have existed for many years. Other Congresses, Democratic and Republican, have had opportunities to deal with them. Several Congresses have passed laws regulating carriers, all of which were beneficial, but none of them sufficient to meet the crying needs of the present. became the privilege of certain Republicans of the Fifty-eight Congress to press the proposition for regulating interstate can

riers upon the Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce until that committee was a unit for it. The President, at the beginning of the third session of the Fifty-eighth Congress, advocated the legislation. A bill was prepared and passed a Republican House. It failed of consideration by the Senate. The Fifty-ninth Congress, overwhelmingly Republican, prepared through its committee another bill, more far-reaching in its provisions than its predecessor, and this has become to all intents the law of the land. (Applause.)

The Sherman anti-trust law, a Republican measure, has been enforced by a Republican Executive until illegal combinations are in great fear and trembling, while some of their constituents are either on the road to the penitentiary or hiding from the officers of justice. Under the leadership of an incorruptible, fearless, and patriotic Republican President, supported by an equally patriotic Republican Congress, a campaign has been made against fraud and corruption in what hitherto has been called "high places," which has given hope and courage to honest men and placed the crown of honor where it belongs, upon the brow of true American manhood. (Applause.)

Corruption and fraud have been no more prevalent during the last few years than they have been for many years theretofore.

Higher Standard.

Indeed, I believe that they have been less. The world has been growing better in spite of all the yellow fellows to the contrary. (Applause.) One of the best indications of improvement is the fact that the criminal is no longer respectable, whether he steals millions or dimes; whether he corners money or directs a mob; whether he sells tainted meats or gives rebates; whether he misappropriates public funds or filches from the individual; whether he be corrupt Senator or defaulting clerk, he is amenable to the law and is brought to justice and branded with his crime. Never in all United States history was the public service cleaner or of a higher standard than now, and this largely because of the awakening of the public conscience to the full realization of the necessity for cleaner public life. (Applause.)

This Administration has not only been fearless in its work and high in its ideals, but it has added to the general prosperity of the people, until this day is bigger and brighter and more glorious in prospect than any other in the world's history.. (Applause.)

Free Alcohol.

The work of the present is only limited by the power with which to do it, and this session of Congress has placed within the reach of enterprise a new force. It has handed over to the farmer and the small manufacturer denatured alcohol, and they can use it to perform their work. I am not intoxicated with the illusion of all the benefits which some enthusiasts claim for this new force, but I do believe it will unlock the jaws of the Standard Oil monopoly and relieve industry from its throttling grip. Alcohol sleeps in the refuse of a thousand products, which at present but contaminates the air.

The farmer and manufacturer may now awaken the giant, harness it to their machinery, and compel it to serve them. (Applause.)

Immigration.

But these are not all. The House has passed bills in reference to immigration and naturalization. Our country has opened its arms in welcome to the worthy of all nations, but into them have rushed some from across the waters who never can be, and never expect to be, true citizens of the United States. They become the willing tools of designing and corrupt politicians and menace the high standard of American citizenship. This is a country for which hundreds of thousands of patriotic citizens have died. It should be kept for those only, of whatever race or color, who are willing to become wedded to it so long as life t and, forsaking all others, shall live and, if need be, (Applause.)

Naturalization.

We are to have a uniform naturalization law, and only those shall be trusted with the sacred rights of citizenship who have proven themselves worthy of it. The wicked, depraved, and dependent, "who have left their country for their country's good," must be denied an entrance to a land already burdened by too many of their ilk.

Pure Food.

For years fruitless attempts have been made in the American Congress to curb the selfish and vicious practices of manufacturers and venders of unwholesome and deleterious foods and drugs. This Congress has enacted a law which I verily believe will contribute more to health and happiness than any other act within the last quarter of a century. The nostrum concocter may see his nefarious business vanish, but health will increase, and the people will be stronger in body and purse.

The manufacturer of unwholesome food products may be denied his accustomed dividend, but legitimate business will flourish more abundantly, and the people will call their lawmakers blessed.

Oklahoma.

A new star has been added to Old Glory and its light will shed an increased luster upon the Republic. Oklahoma has perhaps waited long, but her admission at the end of this session has not delayed her entrance into the sisterhood of States. She could not have taken her place any sooner had the act of admission passed iast December. She will assume all of the responsibilities and receive all of the blessings of statehood, but she is well prepared, and the Sixtieth Congress will warmly welcome her Senators and Representatives, for they will be wise and patriotic Americans, eminently fitted to aid in shaping the destiny of our common country. (Applause.)

I have not mentioned all that has been done by this Republican Administration. Time forbids that I should do so. I cannot tell in detail all of the acts of wisdom and economy which have characterized the proceedings of the last seven months. I am profoundly thankful that I have been permitted to perform my humble part in that splendid work. What has been written has been written, and all of the frantic efforts of men hungry for place and power to belittle or appropriate it will come to naught.

The President.

Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, needs no encomium from me. He has already written his name high upon that illustrious roll of fame, along with those of Washington and Lincoln. Washington established the Republic; Lincoln preserved it; Roosevelt has dedicated it anew to the cause of justice and equality. (Applause.) The first two escaped not the calumniator and detractor. No man who has been strong and courageous for the right ever did, but the people, they who make the republics, have crowned him benefactor. Some there have been who have sought to belittle our great President, and have been audacious enough to attack him, but they only bear scars, and 80,000,000 American people have awarded him the victory. He at times may have been impulsive, but the impulse was born of love for the people; he has been strenuous, but the exigencies of the times have demanded it, and it has been the strenuosity of public service. He has done things, and who is there so reckless as to rise here or elsewhere and condemn what he has accomplished? "By his fruits ye shall know him."

The Speaker.

I cannot close without paying my humble yet sincere tribute of respect and esteem to that distinguished Republican statesman and patriot, the Speaker of this House. (Applause.) He has not only presided with impartial ability over the Congress, but he has been wise in counsel, profound in statesmanship, and is devotedly loved by every Member of this body. Arduous and sometimes difficult and exacting duties have not disturbed hi mental or physical powers, and he stands to-day younger

the youngest and stronger than the strongest, "The noblest Roman of us all." Wise, just, and experienced, he has no superior in the minds of those who know him. That God may fulfill the promise of many more years of exalted service to his country is the devout prayer of the American people for Joseph G. Cannon. (Applause.)

The country, listening to the sweet music of humming spindles and revolving wheels, gazing on the happy and contented faces of its prosperous people, will recall that all of its prosperity during the last forty years has been under a Republican administration, and that all of its financial, industrial, and commercial distress and suffering have been under a Democratic administration, and with these memories fresh in mind it will say to the Republican party, "well done, good and faithful servant, continue ye in power." (Prolonged applause.)

REPUBLICANS EVADE NO ISSUES.

Assuredly it is unwise to change the policies which have worked so well and which are now working so well. Prosperity has come at home. The national honor and interest have been upheld abroad. We have placed the finances of the nation upon a sound gold basis. We have done this with the aid of many who were formerly our opponents, but who would neither openly support nor silently acquiesce in the heresy of unsound finance; and we have done it against the convinced, the violent opposition of the mass of our present opponents who still refuse to recant the unsound opinions which for the moment they think it inexpedient to assert. We know what we mean when we speak of an honest and stable currency. We mean the same thing from year to year. We do not have to avoid a definite and conclusive committal on the most important issue which has recently been before the people, and which may at any time in the near future be before them again. Upon the principles which underlie this issue the convictions of half of our number do not clash with those of the other half. So long as the Republican Party is in power the gold standard is settled, not as a matter of temporary political expediency, not because of shifting conditions in the production of gold in certain mining centers, but in accordance with what we regard as the fundamental principles of national morality and wisdom.-President Roosevelt's Speech of Acceptance, 1904.

As far as your interests be, in the direction of national questions, the principles have not changed, and you stand here to-day just exactly where you stood years ago in this State, when, under the leadership of the gallant man who believed in the protective policy and in safe money, you followed him to the polls. It is a serious thought that I want you to take home. Republican or Democrat, take it home to-night and think it over. Compare the conditions by your fireside to-day with those which existed under the Cleveland administration, and then make up your minds, and when you have reached a decision, "STAND PAT."-Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, Chillicothe, Sept., 1903.

There is left on the statute book no trace of any Democratic legislation during this whole period of thirty-two years except the repeal of the laws intended to secure honest elections. The two administrations of President Cleveland are remembered by the business men and the laboring men of the country only as terrible nightmares. Whatever has been accomplished in this period, which seems to me the most brilliant period in legislative history of any country in the world, has been accomplished by the Republican Party over Democratic opposition.-U. S. Senator George F. Hoar.

"It is better to trust those who are tried, than those who end."-John A. Logan, 1878.