Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-05-23
Congress- Convenes.

nary session Of the 66th CONGRESS convened
by special proclamation of the President
OF the United States to consider questions of
great Importance, both domestic and inter-
national. The current session is regarded
by public men in and out of Congress- as
destined to prove one of the most momen-
tous and important legislative assemblies
held in many decades.
This is the only session of Congress ever
called by President who at the time was
absent from the United States, and the
only one ever assembled when the Presi-
dent was not in the White House to re-
ceive notification of the meeting from a
committee Of Congress.
CHIEF POINTS Or PRESIDENT WILSON'S
MESSAGE.
LEAGUE AND TREATY LATER.
Il shall take the liberty of addressing
you on my return on the subjects which
have most engrossed our attention and
the attention of the world during these last
anxious months, since the armistice of
last November was signed, the interna-
tional settlements which must form the
subject matter of the present treaties OF
peace and of our national action in the
immediate future"
LABOR PROBLEMS.
How are the men and women who do
the daily labor of the world to obtain
progressive improvement in the condi-
lions of their labor. to be made happier.
and to be served better BY the commune
ties and the industries which their labor
sustains and advances7 How are they to
be given their right advantage as citizens
and human beingsH We cannot 60 any
farther in our present direction. We have
already gone too far"
Work For SOLDIERS.
I'VE must see to il that our returning
soldiers are assisted in every practicable
way to find the places for which they are
fitted in the daily work Of the country"
TAX REVISION
Il hope that the Congress will find it
possible to undertake an early reconsidera-
ton of Federal taxes. in order to make our
system of taxation more simple and easy
Of administration and the taxes themselves
as little burdensome as they can be made,
and yet suffice to support the government
and meet all its obligations
MANY of the minor taxes provided for
in the revenue legislation Of 1917 and 1918,
though, no doubt. made necessary by the
pressing necessities of the war time, can
hardly find sufficient justification under
the easier circumstances Of peace. and can
now happily be got rid Of Among these,
! hope you will agree, are the excuses upon
various manufacturers and the taxes upon
retail sales
RETALIAToRY TARIFFS.
"Our tariff laws as they now stand pro-
vide no weapon Of retaliation in case other
governments should enact legislation I'M
equal in its bearing on our products as
compared with the products of other coun-
tries. Though we are as far as possible
from desiring to enter upon any course of
retaliation, we must frankly face the fact
that hostile legislation by other nations is
not beyond the range Of possibility, and
that it may have to be met by counter leg
islation."
VoTEs For WOMEN.
ut seems to me that every consideration
Of justice and of public advantage calls
for the adoption of that amendment and It's
submission forthwith to the legislatures Of
the several States"
RETURN Or R. RS AND WIRES.
THE telegraph and telephone lines will
Of course, be returned to their owners 81
soon as the retransfer can be effected with
out administrative confusion; so soon
that is, as the change can be made will
least possible inconvenience to the publi
and to the owners themselves. The rail
roads will be handed over to their owner
at the end Of the calendar year: IL were il
immediate contact with the administrativ,
questions which must govern the retransfe
Of the telegraph and telephone lines, coulC
name the exact date for their return also.
BAN Orr WINE AND BEER.
Il. therefore. recommend that the &C
approved November 81. 1918. entitled, Al
act to enable the Secretary of Agricultur,
to carry out, during the fiscal year endinl
June 80, 1919. the purposes of the act en-
titled IAN act to provide further for the ma
tional security and defense by stimulating
agriculture and facilitating the distribution
Of agricultural products. and for other pur
poses,' be amended or repealed. in so ia
as it applies to wines and beers"
A WAR PREcAUTIoN.
The close relation between the manu-
facturer of dyestuffs, on the one hand, AM
Of explosives and poisonous gases, on tn
other. moreover. has given the industr,
an exceptional significance and value
Although the United States will gladl,
and unhesitatingly join in the program o.
international disarmament, it will, never
theless. be a policy Of obvious prudenct
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