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SEATTLE. WASHINGTON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1908.Volume XV, Number 24.

H. R. CAYTON, Publisher.

Once again those elected to rep-resent the various states of theUnited States in the halls of Con-

have assembled at the Na-

Congress Convenesfor Closing Session

tional Capitolto begin theclosing ses-sion of the

Fifty-ninth Congress. While noth-ing remarkable or unusual is ex-pected to happen between now andthe 4th of March, 1909, when itwill pass into history, yet themembers of the present body hopeto so completely clear the legisla-tive boards by that time that theywill be able to plunge into the tar-iff reduction tussle, which thecountry was promised by the eani-

. paigners before the election, assoon as the present Congress diesand the new one born and willhave been culled together byPresident Taft. While to theaverage lay citizen it might ap-pear that the country is beinglegislated to death, yet there isalways imminent need of the pres-ence of Congress to patch this orthat piece of legislation which, ow-ing to the size