Arizona republican., 1915-12-18
Adjournment Is Taken Over Christmas After Senate Adopts Joint Resolution Extending Emergency Re venue Law One Year.
TO RECONVENF
 JANUARY FOUR
During First Two Weeks of theSession Only Important Legislation Was Adoption of the War Revenue Tax Extension Measure.
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 WASHINGTON Dec. 17.-Congress adjourned tonight for the Christmas holidays after the senate had adopted the joint resolution which passed the house yesterday extending the emer- gency revenue law one year. or until Dcember 31, 1916. The senate adopted the resolution after a lively partisan debate, by a vote of 45 to 29 demo- crats supporting it solidIy and repub- licans unanimously opposing it. Pres ident Wilson signed the measure to- night.
 Both houses will re-cOnvene at noon Tuesday, January f. when the admin istrative program. including the plans for national defense will be undertake en in earnest.
 During the two weeks of the session the only important legislation was the extension of the war tax This was done to prevent a lapse of the law De- cember 31 next with the understanding that the law will be taken up for amendment in order to increase the revenues as soon after the holidays as possible.
 Upon the adjournment tonight there was a general exodus of members for their homes. The day in the house had been devoted to speeches on national defense.
 Discussion of the war revenue re- vision in the senate resolved itself into tariff argument republicans assail- ing the Underwood law as inadequate and condemning the general fiscal pol icy of the administration. Senator I-n- derWood of Alabama, in his first sen l To which bears his name and challenged republicans to compare it with the Payne-Aldrich tariff
 Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, in response to oues- tiOns from the republicans. said he un- derstood it to be the administration plan to propose further revenue Iegis- latiOn after the holidays, and that his impression was there would be no is suance of bonds to defray increased expenses of the government, including the preparedness program.
 Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania whC led the minority attack on the resolution, interrupted Senator Under woods speech to draw a picture of idle men in his state during his campaign for reelection last year. He said the present prosperity in the steel business was due to the war and immense pur- Chases by belligerent governments.
 The senator from Pennsylvania" said Senator Underwood in reply, has made clear his belief then that the de- pression which followed the terror of the first few months of the war was due entirely to the democratic admin istration but that the present prosper ity alone is due to the war"
 This discussion today, while not iluminative on the fiscal condition of the country. has clearly defined the is sues between the two great parties on matters of l egislation. MT. Penrose says we are not committing a crime against the American people by reduc- ing the custom house taxes and replac- ing them with taxation resting solely on the wealth of the country"
 The treasury deficit which is blamed on the European war" he said ''woulG in my opinion be thousand times worse were if not for the war in Europe. The war in Europe has been the only cause which has saved the fiscal policy of the party now in power from the most gigantic collapse ever witnessed in civilized country. I be- lieve if we had not had the war in Europe we would have the blackest times in the history of the American republic compared to what the depres- sion under CleVeland's administration and under the Wilson German law would have been insignificant
 Republicans who joined in the de- bate included Senators Lodge, Shoot Gronna, Gallinger and Works. Sena- tors Thomas and Gore supported Sen ators Simmons and Underwood