The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-28
PLAN FOR EXTRA
 SESSION CALLED 0FF.
Senate May Convene Be- fore Regular Session,
 However

Washington. February 27.-Plans for . an extra session of the Senate to rat fly treaties and confirm nominations Immediately after March have been abandoned. The foremost of possibil- ities being considered today was an extra session beginning probably oil October l. two months earlier than the Sixty-fourth Congress would ordinar- fly assemble.
 Leaders who were being eanvassed on that proposal today were agreed that by assembling about october 1, the time which ordinarily is lost when ! Congress organizes in December and seldom gets down to real work before the middle of January, would be more than overbalaneed and an early start could be made on the remainder of the administration programme which in- dudes the Philippine bill. the con servation bills, the regulation of issue of railroad securities and the ratifica- ton of the pending treaties with Nic- aragua and Colombia. The situation on the ship bill still is indefinite.
 Favorable action was taken today by the Senate interstate commerce com mittee on all President Wilson's nom- nations to the federal trade commits sion except George Rublee. That re- moved one remote possibility of an ex- tra session of the Senate in March and the determined announcements of re- publicans that they would fight the Colombian treaty all /ummer if neces- sary probably was another deciding fac tor.
 Bill Favorably Reported
 The Hollis rural credits bill, favorably reported today by the Senate banking committee is compromise between pro- posals for government loans and the idea of private land banks.
 It would establish a system of private national farm loan associations to make loans to farms and issue bonds The government would supervise the system. The committee reported the plan pro- posed took from European systems such features as were adaptable to American conditions. Many of the Presidents po- litical friends have advised against an immediate extra session.
 To begin Congress in October it is urged, would permit an adjournment at lease early in the summer of 1916 before the political conventions and the presi- dential campaign
 
 on appropriation bills and conference re- ports. There is every prospect that all will be completed by March with the exception of the rivers and harbors bill, for which a joint resolution approprat- ing lump sum to be expended by the war department probably will be sub stituted.
 First Serious Wrangle
 Senator McCumbers rural credits plan, attached to the agricultural bill in the Senate. brought the first serious wrangle in the consideration of the supply bills in the House today. After much par liamentary maneuvcring the bill went to q committee which will report it back for consideration of all proposed rural credit plans. Proposals to send if to conference were defeated. It Is planned to hav the committee recommend Senator Hollis rural crdits bill as a substitute. That measure, it is understood, Is satis- factory to the President. At a confer ence between Democratic Leader Under wood Postmaster General Burleson, who spoke for the President, Chairman Lever of the agriculture committee and Chair man Glass of the banking committee, Mir. Lever was charged with composing the situation
 The conference report on the ship pur- chase bill will be put through the House Monday. and will be ready for the Sen ate Tuesday. Republican senators prom ise to renew their filibuster and the end of the Sixtythird Congress probably will see the bill ispt passed.
 ' Tonight republican senators gave a farewell dinner to their colleagues who retire March 4.