Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-12-07
NATIONAL CONGRESS
. REASSEMBLED TODAY
Session viii End March 4, at Which
Time Both Housee See
Many Changes.
CBy Associated Prsss3


Washington. Dec. THE sixty
third Congress reassembled today for
its third and concluding session.
President Wilson will deliver his
annual address. in person. tomorrow
from the rostrum in the hall OF the
House Of Representatives before a
Joint SESSION, outlining the administra'
ton program. Until that Is fully dis
closed. the work which will be under
taken during the comparatively Few
remaining days in the life OF this Con
gress. which ends OF 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 November elections VIII
be called In special session or will not
assemble before another 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 SEES
sion. That the general appropriation
bills would be difficult to complete
before March If much other lesisla'
ton were to intervene was the con
sensus of opinion among the leaders
Of both dominant parties. What cir
cumstances may arise from the Euro
mean war or changed conditions IN
Mexico may De the deciding influence
In the meeting time Of the next Con
I press with It's new host Of Republicans
in the House.
With the falling Of the gayels IN
both Houses today many legislators
some of them prominent figures ioI
years in the political life Of the Nation
turn their faces toward private lie
for this session Of Congress is theil
last unless changing fortunes return
. them.
Senators Root Of New York, Burton
f Of Ohio. Perkins Of California, Bristov
4 Of Kansas. Crawford Of South Dakota
o Stephenson Of Wisconsin, all Reput
q ucans - and Thornton Of Louisiana
2 and White of Alabama, Democrats
G will 90 out of office at the end OF TN
r session.
In the House, Representatives u
i derwood of Alabama, Hardwick G
o Georgia and Broussard of Louisian
q are serving their last terms beior
# their elevation to the Senate OF IN
Il next Congress.
g Among prominent House Democrat
% retiring are: A. Mitchell Palmer
q PENNSYLVANIA, a member of the Way
10 and Means Committee; Stanley
N Bowdle of Ohio, who will return IL
coat he took from former Represent
~ tive Nicholas Longworth; Robert
,r Buckley of Ohio, John r. Clancy
70 New York, Robert f. Difenderfer
40 PENNSYLVANIA, jeremiah Donovan
m Connecticut, Richmond Pearson Ho
N son of Alabama, Henry NJ. Goldfog
% of New York, Charles A. Korbly
~ Indiana, Robert L. Lee of Penns.
M. vania. George Neeley OF Kansf
or Frank T. O'Hair of Illinois, who W
or yield back the seat he took from IL
nd mer Speaker Joseph G. Cannon; Jo
ot ]. Mitchell of Massachusetts,, me
Der of the Ways and Means Comm
q tee: Edward W. Townsend OF NJ
bo Jersey and many others. OF the p
or. gressive organization in the Hou
members who will be retired inclu
he the party leader, Victor Murdoch
q Kansas; NJ. Clyde Kelly, w. ]. /
INV lings and Henry W. Temple, all
re Pennsylvania; James G. McLaugh
II. of Michigan, and William II. MI
w baugh of Illinois.
-, Leaders on all sides look forward
,o+. interesting developments over
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