Evening star., 1919-05-11
CONGRESS ONTHE EVE
. OF A NOTABLE SESSION
Dramatic Struggle Over Peace Treaty in
Prospect With Vital Domestic
Problems to Be Solved.

naliSm and socialism. 1t is trite, al
most. to sum it up by saying that the
majority represents the conservative
thought of the country, but isn't that
the case in fact?
In the Speakers chair is Gillett,
the canny New Englander. in thought,
action and every way the antithesis
of the Pike county statesman, Champ
Clark; that is. in every way except
intellectually, for they are both "all
there in that respect. At the head
of committees having to do with the
great subjects will be different men
with different views, compared with
the men who dominated the same
committees in the last Congress.
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Name some of the big questions?
All right Here are a few Of them:
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SOME OF THE BIG Of the res
QUESTIONS PENDING. olution for
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suffrage amendment to the Constitution.
Framing of the machinery of the
law to enforce wartime prohibition
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"bone-dry" after January next.
Return the public utilities, taken
over under the emergency Of the war,
to their owners.
Provide for stricter governmental
regulation of privately owned COM
mon carriers
Restrict immigration and put down
anarchy and sedition.
Take back the broad powers grant,
ed the executive and administrative
branches Of the government for the
purposes of the war and restore them
to the places where the Constitution
fixed them.
Reconstruct the revenue laws In the
INTEREST of more equitable distribu-
tion of taxes.
Pass a protective tariff law to shield
American Industries from the cheap
labor of Europe after peace starts
foreign mills to going.
Perfect the laws relating to tho
merchant marine to assure that ever
hereafter this country will share the
commerce of the seas and carry Its
own products in its own ships.
Create an Army and Navy on q
peace basis. and adopt some definite
plan of military training and pre-
paredness.
Do something for the welfare Of
the returning soldiers by enlarging
means for occupation or for tilling
the soil.
Place tho appropriations for the
support OF the government on a re-
duced scale. commensurate with the
needs Of the government. but on q
peace basis.
That program ought to hold the
House for a while, 1t is declared.
Along with 1t will run some investi-
cations Of war conditions, but al
ready It 10 apparent that nobody is
as keen on Investigations as they
were awhile back. It's water gone
over tho wheel. it is said. and. more
over, there 10 real grist to grind.
II the House cannot ind enough in
this outline OF work to keep busied
on. the members can go over to tho
other end Of the Capitol and watch
the fight between President Wilson
and the Senate. There ought not to be
dull hour for anybody.
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They expect this Congress to run
right along through the summer and
fall. pos
VACATION CHANCES sfbly close
GONE A.otiMMERiNo. to Decem-
Der whom
the regular session commences:
and that session. in turn. to continue
close to the presidential campaign Of
the ensuing summer. There doesn't
seem to be much outlook for a va
cation for anybody connected with
Congress and politics for a long time
now.