The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-10
CONGRESS- BEGINS
WORK ON SCHEMES
TO CUT EXPENSES
Economy Program Will Be Kept
In View During Considera-
alton of Appropriation
Measures.
TO READ MESSAGE TUESDAY
Vast Grist Of Legislation Must
Be Disposed Of If Session
Adjourns March 4-Cot-
ton Bill Up Today.

1oA Dill w 4Oudy
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
Met at noon.
Senator Camden. OF Kentucky.
filling the unexpired term of the
late Senator Bradley. was sworn
Senators Kern and Gallinger
were appointed to join a House
committee to give formal notifica-
ton of the opening Of congress to
President Wilson and a recess was
taken until 3 p. m.
House.
Met at noon.
Representatives Price, OF Mary
land; Parker, of New Jersey, n
Vincent. of Georgia, filling u un-
expired terms. were sworn in.
Representative Sully, of New Jer-
sey. introduced a bill for an addi-
tional federal judge in his state.
duced a bill for a 5000, 900 federal
building in Kansas City, Mo.
Representative Levy introduced a
bill to authorize an Issue Of $780,
600 Panam Canal bonds to create
a larger surplus in tho treasury.
Adjourned at 1909 p. m. to noon
Tuesday.
Washington, Dec. s.-The Sixty-third
congress- reassembled today for its
third and concluding session.
President Wilson will deliver his an
nual address, in person, tomorrow from
the rostrum in the hall of the House
before a joint session, outlining the ad-
mlnistratlon program. Until that Is
fully disclosed, the work which will oe
undertaken during the comparatively
few remaining days in the life of this
congress, which dies at room, March 4.
remains underlined, except that the an
nual 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 session or will not
assemble before another year no
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. hat the general appropriation
bills would be difficult to complete be-
fore March if much other legislation
We're to intervene, was the consensus
of opinion anon leaders of both DOM
inant parties. What circumstances
may arise from the European wal or
changed conditions in Mexico may be the
deciding influence in the meeting time
of the next congress with it's new host
of republicans in the House.
Their Last Session.
With the falling OF the gavels in both
Houses today many legislators. some of
them prominent figures for 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.
Senator Root. of New York; Burton,
of Ohio; Perkins, of California; Bris-
r--.-e~,.I - q ~
Dakota; Stephenson, of Wisconsin,, all
republicans, and Thornton of Louisiana
n White, of Alabama, democrats, Will
go out of office at the end Of the SEES
sion.
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-.
Among prominent House democrats
retiring are: A. Mitchell Palmer, of
Pennsylvania, a member Of the ways
and means committee; Stanley e..
Bowdle, of Ohio, who will return the
seat he took from former Representa-
tive Nicholas LongWorth; Robert j.
Buckley, of Ohio; John r. Clancy, Of
New York; Robert e. Difenderfer, of
Pennsylvania; jeremiah Donavan, of
Connecticut; Richmond Pearson hob
SON., of Alabama; Henry H. Goldfogle.
of New York; Charles A.. Korbly, Of
Indiana; Robert e. Lee, of Pennsylva-
MIA: George A. Medley, of Kansas;
Frank r. O'Hair, of Illinois, who will
WELD back the seat he took from former
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon; John j.
Mitchell. Of Massachusetts, a member
of the ways and means committee; Ed
ward W.. Townsend, of New Jersey,
and many others. OF the progressive
organization in the house members
=. A. I~,,.n yI,n mill ,>nti-a fpnj-,lo
the party leader, Victor Murdoch, of
Kansas; II. Clyde Kelly, w. j. Rulings
and Henry w. Temple, all of Pennsyl-
vania; James c.. Mclaughlin. of Mich
igan. and William H. limbaugh, OF
Illinois.
Big Program Ahead.
Lesders on all sides look onward tc
, interesting developments over the
! naval and army appropriation bills
because of agitation resulting from The
European war. Representative Angus
tus p. Gardner, of Massachusetts has
!. a resolution directing congressional in
yestigation into the military prepared,
: ness of the United States for war.
! The first calendar business before
the House today was the cotton relic
legislation urged by Representative
!, Henry, of Texas, and others, who al
most prevented adjournment of tn,
: last session by insisting on it. TIL,
general understanding amor mem
i, bers of both houses was that Pre5iden
: Wilson would press the bill for govern
ment purchase OF ocean steamships
. the measure to pave the way for ulti
Innate independence OF the Philippines
and the measures proposing a com
, prehensive plan of dealing with waia
way Improvement and conservation 4
natural resources.
(. A general water way bill TO establis
: a nation wide system of broad scope
= such as has been Endorsed by a con
y .aittnn- Of tha- % hinat will rrah.a ElN l.