The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-27
MAJORITY PARTY OF THE HOUSE
 GETTING TIRED
Talk of Adjournment Until November While the Sen ate Disagrees on
 Peace Treaty.

Washington, Sept. 27-The Repub- l lican majority of the House of Rep , resentatives is getting tired again. I Having been in session for nearly six . weeks longer than they intended be- 1 cause of the insistence of President Wilson, they have concluded that it is time to take another adjourn ment, say, through October, and per haps a little of November while the Senate is discussing the League of Nations.
 It is undeniable that the House has largely failed to do what the President asked in early August when five weeks adjournment had been
 decided upon. True, the bill grant ing powers and funds to Attorney General Palmer for prosecution of profiteers was passed by both houses and has gone to conference, but the
 passage of important and remedial
 legislation stops just about there. A
 few so-caIled single shot tariff
 bills have been passed affecting a few
 comparatively minor industries, but
 none could affect the high cost of liv-
 ing.
 Before the special session of Con-
 gress, which began the middle of
 May, the Republican leaders annOunc-
 ed in a series of statements-One or
 more statements per leader - that
 they knew much more about what legislation was needed than did Pres ident Wilson. Undaunted, the Presi-
 dent sent the customary message to
 Congress at the opening of the spec ial session and recommended a very specific program. The result has been -J, structive nature has been done. The President not only had to take all the preliminary steps regarding a set | tlement of the big problems of cap ital and labor, but he had to carry through what others now assert they thought of but let die-tte probable far-reaching conference of the two | important business factors in Wash 1 ington next month.
 | Republican Floor Leader Frank W | MondeI has announced that the ma- | jority hopes to pass a railroad bill of i some sort before the regular session | in December. At the present time | there is little likelihood of this being ! done, there being several groups in 1 each house of Congress, each of
 which possesses apparently definitely ! fixed ideas as to the future of the railroads, and which intends fighting | for incorporation iI- the final meas ! ure.
 l The merchant marine is in much ! the same situation, although the | possibilities of anything of a definite nature being done with it before the ] regular session seem improba ble. : The Graham select committee to ] investigate war expenditures is sing l ins very low these days, and but few of the sub-''smelling'' commit tees are at work, but these are run ming up fair sized expense accounts ! presumably. since one trio is in 1 France and has been for nearly two months. and another is on the Pacific . coast assailing all witnesses who tes- i tify that any part of the spruce in dustry was conducted honestly in i connection with the wartime aviation program,
 The select committee to investigate i the shipping board has just returned. ] in it's private car from it's sojourn
 on the Pacific coast where ship yards
 were inspected, but no report has
 been made.
 The Republicans expect to caucus
 shortly when the principal topic will , be the proposed October recess. At the same time the question of depos- ing Floor Leader Mondeu may come up, but it is not expected to succeed.