The Nevada County picayune., 1917-04-19
APPROPRIATION MEASURES MUST HAVE ATTENTION OF CON-
 GRESS WITHOUT DELAY.
MANY TO BE ACTED UPON
Scheme of National Defense Involved in Proposed Legislation-Newspaper Correspondents Take Measures to Prevent Leaks-War Department Chargce.
By GEORGE CLINTON.


 which failed of passage at the last >es- sion. and such legislation as bears on ths international crisis
 Ii "as not President Wilson's desire to euH congress into eXtra srssion, pro. viaea of course, that tHe=4ar issue IL! uot become acute. He hoped chat all of the appropriation bills which the house pa>sad at the Jast session would he acted upon by the senate SD that when March daWned tIle country would be prepared in money WHY to ca:lH Il through another fiscal year.
 Then came the sharp necessity of an e&tra session occausc of the looming of tae prospect of war. The admins. tratian hecamc ~amenhat reeonciied to the failurc of lhe appropriation bills when il discovered that an cN- raord5nary session was necessity.
 To Rush Appropriation Bills.
 The bis appropriation bills which failed at the last session either already nave been ar will at oHee be re-intro- duced i'll the form in which they origi- naily passed the house of representa- lives at the last session. Appropri- ations for the national defense aggre- eating half billion dollars are car ried in the army the Sundry civil, the general deficiency and the military academy bills, not one of which passed the senate at the last session.
 As originally introduced the sums l h,- tl as follows: Army. $279,Ooo GOO; sun dry civil. $l3S,OOO, 900; general de fieieney. SG2 0OO, GOO; military academy, $1. .34S .0oO.
 At the Inst session T river and har- Dor bill carrying appropriations of $35,- 0o00o0, and public building bill car rying S32, ,Oo0. .OOO failed of passage. There seems to be no likelihood that these two measures can be put through congress at the present session.
 It k understood, in fact senators and representatives repeat il IS fact daily, that the president has told the leaders in congress that while he con tinues 10 hold office as president he will veto any bill which contains what he considers unWGrranted appropri- ations for public buildings Mr. Will son also has let it he known that he l considers the omnibus public buildings bill which was passed hy the house but which the senate failed TO sanction at the last session was iHdefensible from any point of view.
 Tariff to Be Subject of Debate
 Whether the present session ef con gross is short or long, it will be marked sharply by manifestation of interest in the tariff. Neither war talk nor any other kind of talk can keep the tarin' out of debates in congress- II iS al- @afs q live issue. When the nations of the world settle down and cease i fighting onc of the arguments is that America will need q high tariff wall to keep out an influx of cheap manu- l factured mateWal which will come in from Europ" to compete with Ameri- can-madp goods. There are, of course, arguments quickly and sharply ad- | Vaneed in opposition to taIS position. Ii makes little difference which party to the dispute Is right, neither will ad- init that the other is right, and so il k that the tariff, even when there Is no chance of passing a bill affecting it, remains an evcr-preSent subject for de bate in the two houses of the con greSS of the United States.
 Important News Tipped Off" | dueted by committee of the house what commonly was known IS the leak investigation. Ii will be remem, bered that information concerning l President Wilson's so-callcd peace note leaked out in advance of its pub lcation Information which was used to advantage by certain stockholders.
 It was found that two newspaper men had tipped off the news that such a note might he exported. Only one of these newspaper men was en- titled to admission to the press gal leriee of congress- This ore received no money for his tip and he did what he did through personal friendship fer friend, However. it Was gener- ally considered that he Violated T con lidence and one of the unWrtten rules governing the conduct of correspon- dents in Washington.
 Move to Stop Further "Lcaks."
 As result of his "leak myestisa ton" the standing committee of core spondents as II was then constituted met and adopted a resolution to the effect that the entering into employ nent by any correspondent for the purpose of furnishing advance iafor n1aIion to stockhrel<Hs houses was a violation of the spirit of the rules of she press galleries. This was as far ns the standing committee eould 20, because there had been no written rule against the practice which waS condemned.
 lmmc,Gatc,y thereafter. however, all fhp NaSlUn.tUn cores pOntPnIS Cn-