The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-06
Leaders Expect That It
Will Be Long Drawn
Out.
NEW MACHINERY
NOW IS RUNNING
Senate Organized, With Demo
Gratis in Saddle--Chief Subject
of Legislation Will Be Tariff,
Which Offers Wide Field
for Debates for Vari-
Gus Constituencies.
Especial to The Times Dispatch


Washington. April promptly at ~
o'clock Monday, President Wilson's
proclamation calling the sixty third
Congress into special and cXtraordin-
airy session. will be read in both the
House and tho Senate and the ma
uonal lawmakers will settle down to
grind which, according To most con
servative estimates, will keep them IN
Washington through most OF the
heated portion of the summer.
The Senate has been organized with
new men in the saddle and under DEM
ocratic control In the House the
whole machinery OF organization must
be perfected. and as soon as the Prcsi-
dents proclamation is read election
OF officers will be in order. Speaker
Champ Clark, it is expected, will be
reelected unanimously. The ltepubli-
cans will confer an honor upon Minor
tty Leader James II. Mann, of Illinois,
by formally nominating him to be
Speaker, and 1t is expected that he
will receive most of the votes OF the
various shades of Republicans that
will constitute the minority in the first
session of the House of the sixty
third Congress. The Progressires viii
nominate Victor Murdoch.
Practically all the officers OF The old
House will be re-electcd. with the cN-
ception of Charles T. Riddell, of In
diana, serEeant-at-arms. who VIII
give way to former Congressman
Robert Il. Gordon, OF Ohio. n much
esteemed and popular member OF a
previous Congress. Majority Leader
Oscar Underwood. Of Alabama. Will be
re-electcd by his colleagues as chair
man Of the House Ways and Means
Committee, which position carries with
il the leadership OF the Democratic
side.
Both Speaker Clark and Representa-
tive Underwood will receive felicita-
tons and the good old rebel yell' re-
sounding in the chamber will be
audible sign of the Democratic JOLT
ication attending the inauguration OF
a new era of Democratic control in
the United StateR.
AS the tariu will be the main sub
jcct of legislation to be considered
during the session. pubic attention for
time will be focused on he House.
where, under the Constitution, all
tarim bills must originate The Ways
and Means Committee has been work
| ing for more than month on Il gen
| eral tariff revision program and the
House within couple of days will
| get TO work voting on the various
| schedules.
Not until the House has disposed of
| this legislation will ii be in order for
| the Senate to take UP its consideration.
| Speculation rs to the length OF the SEES
| sion was current among the Congress
! men and Senators who have just re -
turned fresh from their constituents,
! and IL was the consensus OF opinion
! that the session will be a long one
! Hardly any Congressman or Sena-
/ tors expect To get away before August.
/ Although the House may facilitate the
! passage Of the tariff bills by putting
| them through on the schedule adopted
by the leaders, little hope was express
/ ed that the senate will follow suit.
/ Nearly every Representative wishes
! to be heard on the particular duties
/ which affect his district. and even il
/ he does not succeed in getting the rate
/ OF duties which he thinks his constit-
nents are clamorng for. he must
/ satisfy them with some brief or
lengthy preferably Observation-Disclosures
tions to his views. For this reason,
! the tariff has always been n great in
( ccntivc TO debate. and it would be a
! great surprise If il did not give rise
/ at this coming session TO the usual
I crop OF speeches. Senators are even
much more insstcnt than Representa-
! tivcs that their tariff views shall be
given to the public, and before the
tariff bills are sent to the President.
many halliday and all-day speeches
! are expected in the upper branch.
If the tariff program makes reason
ably fast Roadway in the House it is
expected that President Wilson will
suggest the advisabillty Of taking up
currency reform, or income TAX legis-
lation.
The fact that the capital has a win
ming baseball tcam--a team that won
last year anyhow-may also delay the
session. There are a good many base
ball fans in the House, and the ma
jority are earnest roOtcrs for and be-
levers in Clark Griiiiths stars. When
the tariff discussion gets monotonous
they can be depended upon to relieve
the monotony by taking a trip 10 the
Washington baseball park 10 enjoy an
afternoon watching the national game.
The House has lost many Of its old
time members. Former Speaker Can
non viii be missing from his place for
the FIRST time In over thirty-hve years
John Dalzcll and former Representa-
tive Brantley, of Georgia will nc seen