The Washington correspondent of the Times remarks in Monday's paper
that nearly half of the Session of Congress is over and nothing has been done, and no thing seems likely to be done. Mr. Roosevelt contemplates sending Messages urging the amendment of the Sherman Act, the suppression of stock gambling, the establishment of a postal savings-bank, and the restriction of child labour in the district of Columbia and the Territories, but he frankly admits the possibility of his not being able to stir Congress to action. As for the Presidential Campaign, this seems to be settling down to a contest between Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan. Ohio has spoken unanimously for her favourite son. Mr. Taft, and Nebraska for her favourite son, Mr. Bryan. There is little fundamental difference in the "platforms." Both demand revision of the tariff, the Republicans by the calling of an extra Session of Congress, the Democrats by " immediate revision." They are both thoroughly anti-Trust in • tone, and both practically support the Roosevelt policies, the Ohio Taft platform declaring for no " retreat in the march for better government," and the Nebraska Bryan platform recommending nearly all the measures to which the President is committed. In these circumstances, one can only conclude that the election will be a conflict of personalities, not of policy.
