Evening star., 1919-03-16
FORMIDABLE PROGRAM
FOR THE EXTRA SESSION
Representative Moore, Member of the House
Steering Committee, Tells of Vital
Legislation Needed.
RY WILL p. KENNEDY.

RY WILL p. KENNEDY.
n EADJUSTMENT of industry.
~ employment of the man-pow-
er profitably, economic devel-
opment and coordination of
the means Of transportation. definite
policy as to public utilities. safe
guarding home markets and expan-
sion of foreign trade, balancing the
books on enormous war expenditures.
providing funds for multiplied current
expenses. taking an account OF stock
and preparing for national advance
ment-is the Kaleidoscope response
bility that lies heavy upon the incom-
ing Congress.
The republican majority in the Six
ty-sixth Congress is organized apd
impatient to start work on this COM
plex and fateful program. The Amer
lean people, surfeited with war, bur
dened with financial obligations. eager
for the resumption Of normal condi-
tions, are watching closely whit will
be done under the Capitol dome DIR
ing the next few months, preparing
to express their verdict in the por-
tentous elections of 1920
Big Items in Program.
That is the situation that confront
ed the steering committee of the re-
publican majoriy when it met Friday
to work out program for the extra
session-against the day when Presi-
dent Wilson will see fit to call it The
program will include these principal
legislative activities:
Passage Of appropriation bills for
the support of government depart
ments and agencies totaling more
than four billion dollars.
Revision OF the tariff with a spe-
cial care to the protection Of domestic
industries.
Redrafting the new revenue law to
meet changed conditions and to pro-
vide six billion dollars the first year
and four billion dollars thereafter
if that is sufficient.
Reconstruction, turning back into
peace-time production the plants that
have been converted to manufacture
of war supplies; finding economic and
profitable use for the plants and in
dustries that sprang up to meet
emergency needs during the war
and salvaging the human machinery
wrecked in the war.
Disposition of the railroads, includ-
ing dictation of terms on which they
may be turned back to their private
ownership. with strict governmental
supervision of issuance of stocks and
bonds: with attendant legislation pro-
viding for healthy. economic devel-
opment Of the waterways and high
ways as co-ordinated avenues Of ef-
ficient transportation.
To Upbuild Merchant Marine.
Upbuilding Of a great American
American-made and American-t trade
marked goods across the seven seas
to all the nations of the world-even
if the United States Shipping Board
has to be disbanded to accomplish
this United States ambition.
Investigations of war expenditures
and wartime administration. with
closer attention to the welfare of our
own country.
New census legislation.
Revision and amplification of bank
ing and currency laws, with special
regard for revolutionized world con-
ditions, international exchange and
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merce.
! House Leader Frank W. Monden of
Wyoming and Speaker Frederick H.
Gillett of Massachusetts,. selected as
the party leaders in the incoming
Congress, have suggested some Of the
more obvious topics in this legislative
program, in statements prepared ex-
clusively for The Sunday Star. Rep
resentative James w. Good of Iowa,
chairman of the appropriations commit
tee and Representative Joseph w Ford
ney, chairman Of the ways and means
committee, have testified in inter-
views regarding other important mat
ters that must be included Con-
firmation of the program as a whole
comes from Representative J. Hamp-
ton Moore of Pennsylvania, a member
of the republican steering committee,
who also took a most conspicuous
part in the organization of the repub-
lican majority. Mr.. Moore is very ac-
tive now in councils of the steering
committee dovetailing in the various
problems comprising this program.
and is looked to for even greater ac-
tivity when these various matters
come up on the floor. Ranking next
to Mr.. Fordney on -she ways and