Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-17
CONGRESS CLOSING
UP SESSION EARLY
Adjournment Can Be Made in
October if Senate Puts on
More Speed.
PROGRAM NEARLY FINISHED
Insurance and Deficiency Bill
Will Complete Presidents
Schedule.

WASHINGTON, Sept 16.-Con-
contemplate adjournment early in
October. Speed in the senate alone is
essential to carrying this plan into eff
feet. The house has almost complet-
ed its work and conferees are making
all possible haste to reach agreements
on measures that have passed both
houses.
Indications are that the senate will
cooperate in the effort to reach ad-
journment at the time tentatively
set Ii rushed thru the trading with
the-enemy and war bond bills last
week in record time and has taken
hold of the soldiers and sailors in
surance bill, one of the two remain
ing big measures it has to pass, with
an apparent determination to expe-
dite consideration of ii. Cloture may
be resorted to If necessary.
Wilson Satisfied.
President Wilson has no new leg
islation to present and is understood
to be ready to have congress go home.
His insistence that the insurance bill
be passed before adjournment, com
municated to the senate last Friday
by wireless, is said to have been thru
I
here for any other purpose than to
get that bill out of the way
Aside from the insurance measure
and the $1,000, 100000 war deficiency
bill, most of the big legislation of the
session will be in conference this
week. They include the war tax, war
bond and trading with the enemy
bills. The war bond measure will 20
to conference from the house tomor-
hn nth al a.
conferees' hands.
Agreement on the war tax bills
some time this week is anticipated
lts consideration has progressed
smoothly, considering it's far-reachin.
importance and the many change.
made In the house bill by the semd,e.
minor matters now are being threshed
out and by Thursday, 1t is expected,
the two big issues, excess profits tax
and mail rates, will be under discus
sion.
On the insistence of Democratic
Leader Kitchin and others, the meet
lngs of the conferees are executive.
Few Big Differences Remain.
Only a few big differences exist bo
tween the two houses on the war
credits and trading with the enemy
measures. The principal changes
made by the senate in the war credits
bill are the increase of from one
seventh to one-fourth of per cent ~.
the allowance for floating the bonds
and the decrease i'm the certifica,en
allowances from one-tenth to one
twentieth. More important provisions
were added to the trading bill by tne
senate. They include giving the presi-
cent power to stop imports, to pro-
hlbit enemy life insurance companies
from operating in this country. and
the King amendment to require Ger
man language newspapers to print
English translations of their articles.
The war deficiency bill propap,
VIII pass the house tomorrow. Tine
senate will reconvene Tuesday and
take up the Webb export trading pIn.
already passed by the house. and this
VIII be followed by the Welsh oil land
leasing bill. The deficiency measure
may displace one OF these. The in
surance bill is being given committee
consideration and probably will be re-
ported late this week.
The house committee appointed IN
investigate defective ammunition win
pegin its hearings tomorrow with n
number of employees, including in
spectors and chemists of the Frank
iord arsenal, called as witnesses.