Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-29
HOPES CONGRESS
WILL NOT DELAY
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| lie opinion will not support long
struggle over organization and COM
rnittee patronage at such a critical
time.
The resolution for congressional ac-
ton to comply with the Presidents
Recommendation probably will be con-
sidered first in the House, leaving the
Senate to take it up later. The House
Foreign Affairs Committee now is
| drafting various forms of resolution
to meet the executive recommends
tions.
Emergency Measures
Another resolution for original
House action is the probability that
the resolution will carry an emergency
appropriation Appropriation meas
ures must originate there.
! The peculiar situation in the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
with Chairman Stone opposed to ac-
tion which would lead to war, and the
opposition of Senator Hitchcock, the
next ranking Democratic member, to
manifesto, was another factor in the
tentative plan to have the resolution
originate in the House.
Working on Speech
The President has received recon-
mendations from several cabinet men,
bers on points to be included in his
address and is now preparing 1t in q
preliminary way.
The final cabinet meeting before the
assembling of Congress will be held
! tomorrow and members will be ready
to report fully on preliminary prepar-
edness measures.
| or Mar l.
can public. in a general way. has as
| much information bearing directly on
| the present crisis between the United
States and Germany. except on German
plots against American interests. al
the government itself. it was ascertain.
ed definitely to-day. Regarding the
plots. however. the government has
considerable information which it has
SO far not deemed wise to disclose
With the extraordinary session oi
Congress only four days of, 1t also IL
known the government is withou
knowledge OF any further development:
in prospect in the situation between
now and that time. Neither has tn,
government any information of pos
sible peace move on GerInany's par
or that she has considered abandoning
her submarine ruthlessness or that
any other nation contemplates a steI
to change the situation.
10 SuH IHlk
Further steps to expedite measure:
affecting the national emergency wer,
taken to-day when Republican ant
Democratic House leaders agreed ten
tatively to Introduce appropriation
bills which failed to get Senate actor
at the last session, in the same form
as they passed the House and to rusl
them through the House under sus
pension of rules. This would save
weeks OF the usual committee hearings
and debate, and might stimulate th
Senate to speedy action.
Several government agencies and la
Dor leaders are at work on details o
plans to supply adequate labor for gov
ernment service in case of war Tit
American Federation of Labor will pu
the government in touch with skille,
workmen; the Federal Public Employ
ment Service will furnish unskillet
men; the Civil Service Commission will
supply clerks. and the post office de
! pa rtment will distribute advertisement
os the governments needs.
Guard MObilizes
-Four additional regiments of Nation
al Guardsmen being modified to-da,
for Federal service, brought the mum
. ber of guardsmen ordered out for po
; lice duties in their respective states t
$4,000.
The navy to-day gained 1873 addi
tional men for officers by the gradua
tion of the senior class of midship
men from the Naval Academy at An
napolis, three months ahead of tn
; ordinary graduation date.