Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-23
IILEIl CLARK
NOT WORRYING
kpects Reelection Within
Hour and 40 Minutes
n After House Meets
<UTE ON WAR SITUATION,
lays President Knows More
About 1t Than Any Living
Man-Lodge Calls on
Lansing
WASHINGTON, March 90.


1hs organization of the next House or
representatives. about which politicians
Ave been fretting and stewing since last
November. isn't worrying Speaker Champ
lask to any great extent.
N The laconic Missourian returned TO WASH
lGl6ton today to prepare things for the OPEN
1ng Of the extra session on April 2. Ono
~ The first things he did was to calmly
predict his reelection to the chair.
g "I'n be reelected" ne said. "1t'll take
5ust one hour and forty minutes to do the
Job. Get out your pencil, young man, and
I'll give you the program. Put the preacher
a4own for a ten-minute prayer. It'll take
forty minutes to call the roll and establish
~ quorum. Got that? Then therell be a
Sken-minute nominating speech and another
forty minutes for rollcall. on the vote.
zhe majority will be from to 5. That's
AL there Is to it."
F The Speaker was reticent about the for
oign situation. He held long conference
with Representative Flood, the chairman
Of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
coon after his arrival
'President Wilson knows more about the
foreign situation than any living man." said
the Speaker. He has more avenues OF in
formation than any living man, He has
week may see turn in the whole situation
Remember the French Revolution? Well IL
started on July 4, 1889. and they didn't get
their present Government in France until
1871. Remember that?'
S'Tt looks like war to me-" said ChairmaR
flood.
v I In an effort to reconcile serious questions
of difference between the parties in the
0enats during the coming extraordinary
session of Congress- Senator Henry Cabot
lodge today visited the State Department
end conferred At some length with Secre-
1Ary Of State Lansing. The topic under
Glscussion was the Colombian treaty re-
fsrred back to the Foreign R"'ations Com
mittee in the closing hours the recent
extra session of the Senate. Senator Lodge
led the opposition to the document. insist
ing that the payments provided under II to
Colombia were nothing but blackmail.
The Senator explained the nature of his
epposition to the treaty and made certain
guggestions for new treaty, which, IL
Negotiated. would be satisfactory to him
self and his Republican colleagues. 1t is
expected that Secretary Lansing will COM
municate these suggestions to President
Wilson, and that II the latter approves, so
much Of them as Is possible will be in
eprporated in the new treaty.
Senate Lodge has made very few visits
% the State Department since President
Wilson's Administration began, and there
was some surprise at his action. The last
time he was there was to discuss with the
Oecretary the developments in the Mexican
Mutation following the mobilization Of the
National Guard on the border. He has
1ot been either at the White House or
DkAte, War and Navy Building since his
speech Of last summer, when he accused
the president of writing certain apologies
INTO the Luisitania correspondence with
Uermany. u.s. .- .r.