Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-12-05
MANY ISSUES
FACE SESSION
OF CONGRESS
President Wilson Will Read His
Message at Noon To-
morrow.
REVENUES AND DEFENSE
CHIEF PROBLEMS
Democratic Majority in House
Has Been Reduced to
Twenty III -fo&.

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fense and the means of providing
money to carry out the administration
plans, admittedly, are, the chief prob.
lens which the Sixty.fourth Congress
will face when it assemblies at noon
Monday. ).
Democratic leaders who had hoped
to make military preparedness q non.
partisan question are not confident OF
success, notwithstanding the wide
spread endorsement given President
Wilson's program by prominent men,
.bers and organizations affiliated with
minority parties. The chief stumbling
block is the method of raising the
enormous revenues which will be
needed.
Certain republican leaders have in
dicated they are ready to make politl'
cal capital of the democratic dilemma
should the party in power find itself
compelled to resort to bond issue or
any Of the tariff measures hitherto
condemned by them. With leaders
of both parties looking toward the ma.
tional ltcampaign next fail the session
promises to be of unusual interest.
Members Arriving.
Washington is enlivened tonight
with thesfast of The arriving members
icfs tie peWsN gflgress, all of them
aware ST the huge legislative tasks
ahead. % The nations law making
bodies have not been in session for
nine months, the longest legislative
hiatus in the last two administrations,
during which pr0bleins OF supreme I'm.
portance to the nation have arisen:
,Ytesideht Wilson will outline the
salient needs, Of the country in a per.
sonally delivered address to Congress
Thhsday nOoni after which commit.
teeS SsMiflobe 1organized and actual leg.
islatfve Grinding initiated. In his
opening address The President is not
eXpecteds TO present in detailed form
all.VGf the legislation the administra.
tiof' Has in mind, but as Congress pro-
ceeds he plans to send messages on
special subjects.
The Presidents first communica-
tion probably will concern chiefly the
needs OF the army and navy, giving
attention to revelations and responsl'
bilities growing out of the European
war and what may be done to finance
plan of preparedness to assure con-
tinuing safety Of the nation.
Majority Small.
The new Congress is still Demo-
cratic, but not so overwhelmingly as
it has been on previous occasions
when President Wilson addressed it.
In the Senate the party has a slightly
increased majority, but political for.
tunes have reduced the almost un'
wieldy force in the House that came
in on the democratic landslide that
elected Mr.. Wilson so that now the
party will have onlySa majority over
all Of "a votes. This' IL regarded as a
narrow margin in body composed OF
435 members, requiring party de.
Election of only thirteen votes to de.
feat a measure.
The new House Officially classi-
fed will consist OF 229 iDefn0crats, 1877
Republicans, 6 Progressi1es, l Inde-
pendent, l vacancy and Socialist. In
the Senate there are 56 Democrats
and 40 Republicans. Republican ranks
in the House have been swelled by the
return of many familiar political fig
ures who were leaders in the long per-
iod of Republican supremacy. Among
them are former Speaker Joseph G.
Cannon and William B. Mckinley for
mer chairman of the Republican leg
islative committee, both of Illinois;
Nicholas uongworth, of Ohio, son.in-
law of Col. Roosevelt; William A.
Rodenberg, of Illinois; Ebenezer J..
Hill, for years Republican power on
the Ways and Means committee, and
John @. T:lson, both of Connecticut;
George E. Foss, Of Illinois, former
chairman of the Naval committee;
Cyrus A. Sulloway, of New Hampshire,
former chairman of the Pension COM
mittee, remembered as towering
above the heads Of all other members;
George w. Loud, Of Michigan; Benja-
min K. Focht, and Daniel F. Lafean,
of Pennsylvania and many others.
Prominent members of the Sixty-third
House who do not ie-appear at this
session alel Oscar ". Underwood Of
Alabama, who now is a senator; "A.
Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania;
Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana,
who also went to the Senate; Charles
L. Bartlett, of Georgia: Timothy T..
Ansberry, Robert J. Buckley and Stan
lev J. Bowdle, of Ohio: jeremiah
Donovan, of Connecticut; H. Robert
Fowler, of Illinois; Henry George, Jr..
Lathrop Brown, Herman A. Metz,
Frank E. Wilson, Henry NJ. Goldfogle,
and Jefferson NJ. Levy. of New York;
Richmond Pearson Hobson, of Ala
bama. who has led the fight for ma
tional prohibition; c. H. Burke and e.
w, Martin, of South Dakota: Victor
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