Evening star., 1915-02-28
Democratic Leaders Believe
There Will Be No Extra
Session This Spring.
MAY CONVENE AGAIN
FIRST OF OCTOBER
Adjournment Early in 1915 Would
Then Be Possible-Senate Wran-
giles Over Rural Credits.

Congress will adjourn next Thursday
at noon. There will be no extra ses-
sion of Congress this spring, according
to the democratic leaders last night,
nor a special session of the Senate to
consider treaties and nominations.
Serious consideration, it was learned
last night, is being given. however, to
plan for an extra session of Congress
beginning Octomer 1. two months earlier
than the Sixty-fourth Congress would or
dinarily assemble.
Leaders who were being canvassed on
that proposal were agreed that by as
sembling about October /, the time
which ordinarily is lost when Con-
Eress organizes in December and sell
dom gets down to real work before the
middle of January would be more than
overbalanced, and an early start could
be made on the remainder of the ad-
ministration program, which includes
the Philippine bill. the conservation
bills, the regulation of issue of rail-
road securities and the ratification OF
the pending treaties with Nicaragua
and Colombia. The situation on the
ship bill still is indefinite.
Acts on Nominations.
Favorable action was taken yesterday by
the Senate interstate commerce committee
on all President Wilson's nominations
to the federal trade commission except
George Rublee. That removed one re-
mote possibility of an extra session Of
the Senate in March. and the deter
mined announcement of republicans
that they would fight the Colon bian
treaty all summer if necessary proba-
bly, was another deciding factor. Many
of the Presidents political friends have
advised against an extra session now.
To begin Congress in october, IT is
urged, would permit an adjournment
at least early in the summer of 1916 be-
fore the political conventions and the
presidential campaign.
Work on Appropriations.
Both houses continued yesterday
working on appropriation bills and
conference reports. There is every
prospect that all will be completed
by March with the exception of the
river and harbor bill, for which a joint
resolution appropriating a lump sum to
be expended by the War Department
probably will be substituted.
The Senate agreed to ,ne conference
report on the seamens bill, passed the
Military Academy appropriation bill
and began consideration of the Indian
appropriation bill. A recess was taken
about 6:30 o'clock until 10:45 today,
when eulogies will be delivered in
the Senate on the late Representative
Wilder of Massachusetts and the late
Representative Goodwin of Maine.
Rural Credits Wrangle.
Senator McCumber's 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 yesterday.
After much parliamentary maneuver-
ing the bill went to a committee which
will report it back for consideration of
all proposed rural credit plans. Pro-
posals to sent it to conference were de-
feated. 1t is planned to have the COM
mittee ecommend Senator Hollis rural
credits bill as substitute. That meas
ure, ii is understood, is satisfactory to
the President AT a conference be-
tween Democratic Leader Underwood
Postmaster General Burleson, who
spoke for the President, Chairman
Lever of the agriculture committee and
Chairman Glass of the banking COM
mittee Mr.. Lever was charged with
composing the situation.
Compromise Measure.
The Hollis rural credits bill. which
was favorably reported late yesterday
by the Senate banking committee, is
a compromise between proposals for
government loans and the idea of pri-
vate land banks. 1t would establish
a system of private national farm
loan associations to make loans to
farmers and issue bonds. The gov
ernment would supervise the system.
The committee reported the plan pro-
posed took from European systems
such features were adaptable to
American conditions
The conference report on the ship
purchase bill will be put through the
House tomorrow and will be ready for
the Senate Tuesday Republican SEN
ators promise to renew their filibuster
and the end of the Sixty-third Con-
gress probably will see the bill not
passed.