Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-07
Will Tell Needs of Nation
in Address to Joint
Bodies Tomorrow.
BOTH HOUSES AT WORK
Hope Is to Rush Through BuSi-
ness so Special Session
Will Not Be Necessary.

Washington, ID. e., Dec. G-COnSreSS
got back to work today after six
weeks rest, to what promises to be a
billion dollar session.
With crowded calendars confront
ing both houses, senators and repre-
sentatives settled down to passing big
appropriation bills and the administra-
ton program which President Wilson
will outline in his annual message to-
morrow. in the hope that special ses-
sion will not be necessary after March
A. In the house, crowded galleries and
congressman of all three parties on
the floor united in a remarkable ova-
ton to Speaker Clarke as he dropped
his gavel at noon.
The Sixty-third congress reassem-
bled today for its third and concluding
session. President Wilson will deliver
his annual address in person tomor-
row from the rostrum in the hall of
the house before a joint session, out
lining the administration program. I'm
til 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 4, remains underlined, ex-
cept that the usual appropriation bills
are likely to receive first and chief
attention. Whether the SiXty-fourth
congress, chosen at the November
elections, will be called in special ses-
sion or will not assemble before an
other year no one can predict with
certainty.
After six weeks of respite from leg
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 be-
fore March 4, If much other legisla-
ton were to intervene, was The con
sensus of opinion among i--ers 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.
With the falling of the gavels in
both houses today many legislators,
SOlue VI lHeLu pIOulluSHJ uS SuISS lOl
years in the political life of the nation,
turn their faces toward private life,
for this session of congress is their
last unless changing fortunes return
them.
Senators Root of New York, Burton
of Ohio, Perkins of California, Bristow
of Kansas, Crawford of South Dakota,
of Wisconsin, all republi-
cans, and Thornton of Louisiana and
White of Alabama, democrats, will go
out of office at the end of the session.
In the house, Representatives I'm
derwood of Alabama, Hardwick of
Georgia, and Broussard of Louisiana
are serving their last terms before
their elevation to the senate of the
next congress.
Prominent Democrats Retire.
Among prominent house democrats |
are: A. Mitchell Palmer of |
Pennsylvania, a member of the ways |
and means committee; Stanley z. |
Bowdle of Ohio, who will return the |
seat he took from former Representa- |
tive Nicholas Longworth; Robert J. |
Bulkley of Ohio; John r. Clancy of .
New. York; Robert E. Difenderfer of !
jeremiah Donavan of |
Richmond Pearson Hob !
son of Alabama; Henry NJ. Goldfogle |
IF New York: Charles A. Korbly of In
Llama; Robert +. Lee of Pennsylvania; |
George A. Neeley of Kansas; Frank T. /
O1Hair of Illinois, who will yield back |
he seat he took from former Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon; John ]. Mitchell .
II Massachusetts. a member of the
ways and means committee; Edward (
". Townsend of New Jersey, and /
many others. OF the progressive or
yanization In the house members who
will be retired include the party lead
IT, Victor Murdoch of Kansas: II.
clyde Kelly w ]. Hulings and Henry
". Temple, all OF Pennsylvania: Will
lam ]. Mcdonald OF Michigan and
II. Hinebaugh of Illinois.
Leaders on all sides look forward
o interesting developments over the
laval and the army appropriation
ills because of agitation resulting
rom the European war. Representa-
i've August p. Gardner of Massachus-
tits has a resolution directing con-
-ressional Investigation into the mil
tary preparedness of the United
states for war
The first calendar business before
he house today was the cotton relief
egislation urged by Representative
Ienry of Texas. and others who al
lost prevented adjournment OF the