The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-01-09
PLANS TO BLOCK
EXTRA SESSION
Democrats Claim They 7 &.
Be Able to Clear Up {
Calendar.
PEACE CONFERENCE .LK
Administration Leaders vonfi-
dent of Passing Hundred.
Million Appropriation.
PEACE coNFERENcEsS .LK

Washington, Jan. 81. N. So
With the speedy passage of the Sher-
ley $100,000.000 appropriation to feed
Europe and the Dent army contract
adjustment bills, leaders Of the still
existent democratic majority de-
clared today they would give prac-
tieal demonstration of their ability
to prevent the republican minority
from holding up any important legis-
lation before the. present congress
ends, on March 4. in the hope of forc-
ing President Wilson to call an early
special session of the next congress,
which the republicans will control.
These leaders also predicted that
there would be no special or extra
session Of the next congress until
next summer or fall, or until the
president is ready to call one. They
expect the president to return to
Washington in plenty of time to per-
sonally dispose of eleventh h-hour leg
isIation and to keep in close touch
with congressional happenings as the
time for the passing of the Sixty
fifth congress draws near.
Peace Conference.
They added they believed the peace
conference would consume large
part, If not the greater part, of this
year, in which event the senate
would not be called together in spe-
cial session by the president to con-
slider the peace treaty much before
the regular session of the next con-
gress, which begins in December,
1919.
Considerable importance was at
tached here to what these democratic
leaders said, in view of the fact that
Ia r,Cfov ov,k Anr
munication with the president dur
ing his stay overseas. Postmaster
General Burleson has become a con-
slant visitor to the democratic eau
Gus rooms at the capitol, and 1t Is
not denied by democratic leaders of
congress that the postmaster-g general
has borne more than one personal
message from the president to them
regarding the presidents wishes on
legislative matters.
Resume Consideration.
Passage of the Sherley and Dent
bills before the week end, 1t was
predicted by these democratic lead
ers when the house resumed consid-
GRAFTON of them today, would be the
first step toward speeding up con-
gressional action on legislation with
whichag the administration is deeply
concerned.
Representative Sherley, of Ken
lucky. as chairman of the house ap-
preparations committee, has already
invoked the aid of the house rules
committee to push the presidents
proposal for $100,O00,000 for food
stuffs for European countries outside
Of Germany. He has secured a rule
giving the proposed appropriation
the right of way after the Dent army
contract adjustment bill is dis
posed of.
viii Pass Measure.
Congress will pass the 100000
900 foodstuffs bill for Europe" de-
clared Representative Lever, of
South Carolina, the democratic chair
man of the house agricultural COM
mittee. Empty stomachs are more
responsible for bolshevism than any
thing else. Our failure to perform
what is manifestly our duty-helping
to feed the hungry and starving peo-
Piles of Europe--would be courting
disaster, encouraging bolshevisn1,
rather than discoura ging it."
Money Forthcoming.
The president will get the money,
whether Herbert Hoover is given
charge of its expenditure or not, DEM
ocratic leaders of congress insist.
They add that any attempt ON the
part of republican members to talk
it to death" will be cut short by the
proper use Of still powerful demo-
cratic majority, which does not end
until the Sixty fifth congress passes
into history at noon on March 4,
1919,