The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-31
CONGRESS- SEES
CHANCE To QUIT
60 GlIMMERINC
Poundstone Says Indiana So
Ions Expect Session to Last
all Fall.
BY RAMSEY PoUNpsToNE

WASHINGTON. July 31.-The ma
'ority Of the members OF the Indiana
congressional delegation are now of
the opinion that there will be no ad-
iournment of the present special ses-
sion OF congress; that the special ses-
sion will dove-tail into the regular S.
ION, which convenes the first Monday
in December. An intimation to this eff.
tect has also been given by Democratic
leaders In congress.
Ever since the opening of the spe-
oial session members of congress have
been deluged with work. for war con-
ditions are effecting practically every
class of their constituents.
Answering a complaint Of one of his
constituents against provision In the
original war revenue bill which would
tax certain kinds of documents, an In
diana member of congress advised him
he would be fortunate If, in the course
Of the next few months, he was not
compelled to purchase revenue stamps
TO stick on his doorknobs.
The food control bill offers another
example of the lack of harmony exist.
Ing among Democratic leaders in con.
gress. This measure is now in confer
ence and the members of the house
committee have instructions to dis
agree to all senate amendments.
Washington will be surprised IL the
senate and house get together on a
mutually satisfactory food bill before
the latter part Of August.
There is every indication for an ex-
tended delay in the enactment of a
war revenue measure. This bill had
passed the house and was about to be
reported to the senate by its finance
committee when Secretary Of Treas
ury McAdoo discovered that the gov
eminent would need about six billions
more than the bill provided for. So
the senate finance committee must
redraft this measure. After the SEN
ote has acted upon this reconstructed
bill it will be taken up by the house,
and it probably will be late In Septem-
Der before the bill becomes a statute.
Each day develops new war needs re-
curing special legislation, so. as has
given up hope Of a recess prior to the
converting Of the regular session.
Some Of the decidedly pro-adminis-
tration newspapers in the east are
now devotng their energies to prod |
ding congress. The New York Times
recently declared that Congress is
rersistently blind" to the peril the ma.
ton faces"
AS a matter of fact congress is not |
so much blind as blind, folded. 1t is |
compelled to legislate without vision |
The administration indorses measures
which are drafted in one or another of
the executive departments or by some |
of the numerous advisory or voluntary
boards now in existence. These meas
ures are hurried to congress and con-
gress is expected to hurry them to
passage without amendment. If rep
resentative or senator seeks enlighten-
ment on any point which such meas
ure contains he is eXcoriated as d.
latory Stacker and accused OF blind
ress to "the peril which the nation
faces" Yet no one attempts to de-
fine any particular peril nor to point
out how the proposed legislation Will
prove an exact remedy:
Thus blindfolded congress gropes
painfully through the maze of meas
ures Of whch-as in the case OF the
food control bill-no man can truthful
ly say that he understands all that 1t
contains, and no man can forecast |
what will be its effect or its cost
Under these trying circumstances
congress has dealt far more generous
ly with the administration than the ad-
Manifestation has healt with congress.
The administration demands full CO.
operation from congress while continu-
ing to deny cooperation to congress.
The sons of the late Rev. r. S. Ly-
ons. for years pastor Of Reid Memoir
ial church. Richmond, and one of the |
best-known minister and educators in
Indiana, are surely doing their bit"
for the republic.
Robert Lyons Is now with the Amer
lean expeditionary force in France,
one OF General Pershing's secretaries.
He had previously served in the war
as Tommy In a British regiment.
Ross Lyons is an expert chemist at the
gun testing grounds near Washington.
He enlisted in the navy at the out
break of the war. Tom Lyons is a
member of the Officers Reserve Corps
Training camp at Indianapolis.