Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-12-07

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WASHINGTON, Dec. Congress
resumed work today after a six
weeks rest on what promises to be
a billion dollar session. With crowd
ed calendars confronting both houses,
senators and representatives settled
down to passing big appropriation
bills, and the administration pro
gramme which the president will out
line In his annual address tomorrow
in the hope that the special session
Will not be necessary after March
4th. House Chaplain Rev. Couden
prayed that we may be at peace
among ourselves and with all ma
tions."
Senate Chaplain Prettyman prayed:
Almighty God, we pray our message
to all may be of peace. our influence
in all the world of universal brotller=
hood"
Both adjourned for a joint session
tomorrow
President Wilson will deliver his
annual address, in person, tomorrow
from the rostrum in the hall OF the
house before q joint session, outlining
the administration programme, Until
that is fully disclosed, the work
which will be undertaken during the
comparatively few remaining days in
the life of this congress, which dies
at noon March A, remains underlined.
except that the usual appropriation
bills are likely to receive first and
chief attention. Whether the sixty.
fourth congress, chosen at the No
vember elections, will be called in
special session or not will assemble
before another year no one can pre-
dict with certainty.
After six weeks of respite from elg-
islative grinding, during which many
participated in the political campaign,
members of both houses assembled
prepared to go on with the unfinished
business left over from the last ses-
sion That the general appropriation
bills would be difficult to complete
before March if much other legis-
lation were to intervene, was the CON
census of opinion among leaders OF
both dominant parties. What circum-
stances may arise from the European
war or changed conditions in Mexico
may be the deciding influence in the
meeting time of the next congress
with its new host of Republicans in
the house.
Back to Private Life.
With the falling of the gayels in
both houses today many legislators
some of them prominent figures fol
years in the political life of the ma
tion, turn their faces toward private
life, for this session of congress is
their last unless changing fortunes
return them.
Senators Root, of New York, Bur
ton, of Ohio, Perkins. of California
Bristow, of Kansas, Crawford, oi
South Dakota. Stephenson, of Wis
consin- all Republicans-and Thorn
ton, Of Louisiana, and White. of Ala
bama, Democrats. will go out Of of
flee at the end of the session.
In the house, Representative Tn
derwood, Of Alabama, Hardwick, o.
Georgia, and Broussard, of Louisiana
are serving their last terms before
their elevation to the senate of thu
next congress.
\ Among prominent house Democrats
4 retiring are: "A. Mitchell Palmer, 0
Pennsylvania, a member of the way
and means committee; Stanley
Bowdle, of Ohio who will return tn
seat he took from former Represents
tive Nicholas Longworth; Robert ]
Bulkley, of Ohio; John r. Clancy, 0
New York; Robert E. Difenderfer, O
Pennsylvania jeremiah Donovan, Q
Connecticut; Richard Pearson Hot
son. of Alabama; Henry M. Goldfoglt
of New York; Charles A. Borbly, Q
Indiana; Robert e. Lee, Of Penney