The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-07
COP. CONC2ESSmEn WANT
 10 ADJOURN, BUT CAN'T

Washington, D. C., Nov. 7-Of1cials Congress here do not believe that Congressman Mondeu will be able to go through with the adjournment program he has planned and publish ed for the Republican majority. His leadership of the Republican side of the House has not been brilliant success and even if it were possible to keep his party followers in line behind him on questions of ordinary importance l. is not seen how he can be strong enough to carry through his plan for adjournment by November 1U in the light of circumstances as they e2li:s- a1 this time.
 Government officials raised tl9eir brows when the majority leaders ideas were voiced recently. Though they are unwilling to speak officially they do not comprehend how 1he Congress expects in the language of the army ''to get away with it." In t4-eir opinion, there is LOO much that their deparInen IS require in the way of necessary legisIa-ion-too many public questions to face against which their departmental activities are con Inually hf1aS pushad-foF COEaEess 10 quit at this time after having dnne nothing for six months.
 The Senate of eot1rse is pre-oncu- pied. Bat in the House Jhara has been stirred up hornets nest over the adjournment proposal. The Democrats are ready and anxious to say in Eezz-nn .as long as Lhers is hope of doing any business. The real question $ whether the Repub- lHcan members will lie up behind their sO-called leader, throw over inc traces and adjourn in Ltlss face of the undone work before LheIn.
 The hitch at thLs time comes over the failure of the Repu hIican Con Eress to pass tho proposed and neces- sary railroad leClslaIi0n without which the Government win be ern h..crassed when l. comes time a. the end xf the year to hand back the roads. But aside from this na1ter alI-Inlp portant at this time the country wants legris- Iation on the rnerctEant Iaar+1la, LhR control and development of ou- na- tional resources, JIrr military and ma val poIicies-wtth the arrny bill now before the military committees of both houses-the regulation of tnInigra- ton the stanI ping out of anarchy and BoIshevisrn, the high cost of living, the extension of motor truck mail service, highway construction and SOL Gier relief measures. There will, in addition, be matters of appropriation connected with the Leag ue of Nations covenant when the Senate ratiHes the treaty.
 The question now E,erpleGtIrg the recaIGitrasnt or Ehe soCn-to-bB rsralc1- tram. IS of the FaeIJIb ,fCan InaUTity in the EL0use Is How can We quit in the face of that uncoInpletsd and a1nes& ttrrstartsd program, with no record behind us tD point to 7" ThErB B a large school of E5epao leans who are willing to place the blame where 1t belongs and try to put ft oTn the shoul- tlers Of the deelse Republican organ iza tion headed by Congrsasrnam Mon Cle1l azld Speaker (I-lett, but they make up the faction which at the out ser opposed the selection of these leaders. For those who want to preserve DaTty harmony as wen as for those who S60faL tne present In comp pstent leadership Into power there are tH0 alterhaJIF ess to stay here and face their work OF SO home for a fes weeks and face the music. Keith CT course is very tasty to them
 The big question arises oyer the railroad legislation. The Interstate a4lO ! o4 sd= Ill Co1fLtfi6tce SOh1IhLttee oI the House !aEtS dilIy-dalIied all sum 1lleF with hearings of greater and of less consequence and failed to get down to business until the President and LIle Director of the Railroad Ad- 11linistration forced them into . cor Ier by warning them that this 1egis- Iation should ba forthcoming, if the Governments plan was to be carried out. This cornInit tee, with Congress man John J, Estsh, Republican of Wisconsin, as chairman, and with q majority of five Republicans failed to function on time, though they have realized that the legislation would b. demanded of them by the end of this special session. The majority lead ership, pursuing a mysterious pro- gram of fnacricn has thus far failed to whip them into line.