Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-07
COMMITTEES WORK HARD
ON URGENT WAR MEASURES
Details of Compiling Preparations
for United States Offensive Rush.
Ell by congressman.
NO REST ON EASTER SUNDAY
"Full Speed ahead" Is Ordered, and
the Nations Lawmakers Arc Driv-
ing Administrations Plans With
Increasing Energy.

WASHINGTON. April 6.-Comn.ittcc.
| of the House and Senate. haviay IL
hand the work of completing the prep
arations of the United States for war
Will work night and day. right through
Easter sunday. m order that when
Congress rcassembleS on Monday
morning the important legislation viii
have been whipped into shape for
spccdicSt action.
Roth houses will rest on Saturday
and sunday, but II viii be II rest ahead
of which dawns the most strenuous scs-
sion OF legislative toll that the Amer
lean Congress has ever known. The
concentration OF the Committees OF
Military. Naval and Foreign Relations
and the even more intense application
and travail ahead of the Ways and
Means Committee Of tho House and
the Finance Committee Of the Senate
arc hut the beginning.
For the ensuing spring aud summer.
Congress will have no brc lthinS
spaces. no holidays. The orders of
the commander in chief are for ''iuii
speed ahead" and already the steam
OF the suppressed energies ct the MA
lions lawmakers is Kissing and sizzling
under the safety valves.
Tomorrow morning Secretary of
War Baker will appear before the
House Committee on Military Affairs
to discuss with the representatives o.
both political parties the adminstra-
tons energetic army Hill. The stu
pcndous majority won for the war
accepted AS only an indication OF the
Lnanmity of action which will fol-
low when Congress gets down TO the
work Of furnishing the Treasury with
the lining for its war chest and direct
ing the expenditure o: that vast treas
fn no daft Of
rights and the national honor. The
defeat of the amendments to the war
declaration. introduced by Representa-
lives Britten and McCulloch without
even record vote. will he accepted by
the administration as an Endorsement
of the project of shipping AN lr,ny
overseas to night the tight Of Amer
lean rights on foreign soil.
TO what extent opposition to this
Will develop in the halls of Congress
has become Il matter of no concern
whatever in view OF the completeness
with which the power TO make war in
its own fashion and along its own
strategic plans has been accorded the
Also il is accepted in Washington
that the support of the administration
in Congress will be even more sturdy
and numerically greater than that evil
denccd in the vote early this morning
which approved the administrations
course. One after another the OPP
poncnts or the war declaration averred
in the course OF the debate that once
the declaration had been uttered there
would be no deviation from the course /
Of patriotic devotion to the nation. and
no limit on the Willingness to appro
pirate funds and pass other necessary
war legislation, on their part.
1t was without debate and with no
80. Il,
passed the general deficiency bill, |
SlGi,000,00O in appropriations
which including the Sl00,000.o00 for the
Presidents emergency war fund. The |
money voted the President WAS placed
at his disposal for any purpose related
to the war until the regular war APP |
are made available. The |
deficiency hill was also further amend !
ed by the inclusion OF AN appropri- +!
alton Of 81, 900 TO aid the government
in dealing more effectively with eSpi- !
onagc conspracics and explosion plots. |