The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-18
WORK IS
BEllVCPLANlVED
FOR CONGRESS
REVISION OF SOME OF PRESENT
LAWS AND SETTLEMENT OF
RAILROAD MIDDLE, WILL BE
AMONG BIG PROBLEMS.
BY GEORGE Il. MANNING.

washington. D. c., March 1.-THE
extra session OF congress which will
meet in June. or before, at the will of
the president, Is sure to remain in
session until October It will not
merely take UP and pass the several
appropriation bills left unfinished
when the last session ended on March
9Th, but will consider a variety of new
legislation which the republicans want
to pass before the campaign of 1920
as an earnest OF their legislative in
tentions.
The president can call congress into
session and state the measures he de-
sires 1t to consider, but he cannot
limit the congress to consideration Of
them or name the date for adjourn
ment. Congress when once in ses-
sion can remain until the day for the
opening Of the next regular session
which in this instance will be Monday,
December 1. Once in session 1t can
take up and pass any measure it
chooses.
With complete control of both legis-
1ative branches the republican leaders
assert they will take up and dispose
Of the puzzling railroad question and
will go deeply into the matter of maxi
ing changes in the tariff laws. The
railroad question Of itself will take
some months to dispose Of and tariff
tinkerings in the past have taken many
months to complete.
The people usually expect con-
tinued discussion and changing of the
tariff under republican rule and the
next congress will not prove a disap-
pointment in that respect.
If the extraordinary session is not
convened until Tune / there is a like
1ihood that sol. of the approximation
bills unpassed at the last session viii
still be unpassed ct the beginning IF
the -ext fiscal year. July i.
The republican lee ders have in
sisted that congress should be called
into session without DELAY on the
eronrd that the month Of June is in
sufficient to mass the Legislation now
directlv before congress. Thew have
pointed ont also that tho great chances
made IN the ORGANIZATION of the gov
ernment denartroents since q wear ago
will make II extremely iradvisable to
pass resolutions continuing the last
wears appronriation bills Temporarily
in effect in THE es-e-t that erv of the
annual surnlv bills for the fiscal year
1920 do not pass nv July 1st
Apna~ent!v now that thew co~tro1
the senate r,d house thew ore anxious
~ clash With the president as ear,v
thev can oct o'.t re II valuable cam
pa'~n material fc- 1870
Having urged the calling. of tho ax
IRA session on March Eth. end IL mt
on th"t 'ate then ~,rch before Tr-e
I. and President WILSON HAVING TO-
no-ed the SUGGESTION and declared he
would not call CONGRESS- r-til his r,-
turn fror, France prohah'v in T,.ra
the republicans can he derardad on
not to oversreed in June. To DO so
they would demonstrates hv their ow,
efforts that the president was r'uh+
and their Judgment was wrong Then
aiso il some of the supply hills aro
left over on july 1st because the time
dent and the departments and provo
the wisdom Of the republican conten-
tion.
1t had been expected that with the
make-up of. the majority side Of the
committees decided on. the house ap-
committee would me.et
before the convenine Of the extra SEES
sion to nerfect the draft of the various
bills left over from the
last session. so as TO have them ready
for consideration when tho house met
Congressman James w. Good. of
Iowa. who will be chairman of the
committee in the next
congress. stated today. however. that
the committee will not he called. t.
rceet and consider these measures un-
til after the congress is convened He
cannot see how the COMMITTEES ran
meet. he said. until the committee