The Springdale news., 1917-04-20
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 Changes.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

passage of all appropriation bills which failed of passage at the last ses- sion, and such legislation as bears on the international crisis.
 It was not President Wilson's desire to call congress into extra session, pro vided. of course, that the war issue did not become acute. He hoped that all of the appropriation bills which the house passed at the last session would be acted upon by the senate so that when March 4 dawned the country would be prepared in a money way to carry 1t through another fiscal year.
 Then came the sharp necessity of an extra session, because of the looming of the prospect of war. The adniniS- tration became somewhat reconoied to the failure of the appropriation bills when it discovered that an ex- traordinary session was q necessity.
 To Rush Appropriation Bills.
 The big appropriation bills which failed at the last session either already have been or will at once be re-intro- duced in the form In which they origi- nally passed the house of representa- tives at the last session. Appropri- ations for the national defense aggre- gating half a 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 lh~ ,ast ses,aion.
 As originally introduced the sums appropriated by these measures were as follows: Army, 79,0000o0; sun dry civil. S13S000,OOO; general de ficieney. S62 100000; military academy, $1,34S,0 GOO.
 At the last session river and har- Dor bill carrying appropriations of S35,- GOO 0o0. and public building bill car rying $32 .00o000. failed of passage. There seems to be no likelihood that these two measures can be put through congress at the present session.
 It is understood. in fact senators and representatives repeat it as fact daily, that the president has told the leaders in congress that while he con tinues to hold office as president he will veto any bill which contains what he considers unwarranted appropri ations for public buildings. Mir. Will son also has let il be known that he considers the omnibus public buildings bill which was passed by the house but which the senate failed to sanction at the last session, was indefenSible from any point of view.
 Tariff to Be Subject of Debate.
 Whether the present session of con gress 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 tariff out of debates in congress. IL is al- ways Il live issue. When the nations of the world~ settle down and cease fighting one of the arguments k that America will need high tariff wall to keep out an influx of cheap manu- factured material which will come in from Europe to compete with Ameri- can-made goods. There are, of course. arguments quickly and sharply ad
 
 It makes little difference which party to the dispute Is right, neither will ad- init that the other Is right. and so it Is that the tariff, even when there is no chance of passing n bill affecting 1t, remains an ever-present subject for de bate Tn the two houses of the con greSs of the United States.
 Important News Tipped Off"
 Some weeks ago there was con- ducted by a committee of the house what commonly was known as the leak Investigation" It will be remem- bered that information concerning President Wilson's so-called peace note leaked out in advance of its pub lication, information which was used to advantage by certain stockholders
 It was found that two newspaper men had tipped off, the news that such note might be expected. Only one of these newspaper men was en- titled to admission to the press gal leries of congress. This one received no money for his tip and he did what he did through personal friendship for friend However 1t was gener- ally considered that he violated con- fldence and one of the unwritten rules governing the conduct of correspon- dents in Washington.
 Move to Stop Further "Leaks."
 As d result of this leak investiga- ti0n" the standing committee of corre- spondents as 1t was then constituted met and adopted resolution to the effect that the entering into employ ment by any correspondent for the purpose of furnishing advance infor- nation to stockbroking houses was a violation of the spirit of the rules of the press galleries. This was as far as the standing committee could go, because there had been no written rule against the practice which was condemned.
 Immediately thereafter, however, all the Washington correspondents en- titled to admission to the press gal