The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-02-10
PROBLEMS
AS SOLONS LEAVE

! Knotty problems of reconstruction,
readjustment, and government owner
ship will still DC hanging in the bal
! anco when the present, the 18th.
| Congress ends at noon on Tuesday,
| March 4, Democratic and Republican,
leaders of both the Senate and
! House today agreed.
Monumental as were the war per-
! plexities the present Congress was
forced to deal with, the heritage of
! peace cntanglements the next, the
! 66th, Congress will have to unravel
| promise to be equally difficult of
| solution, Democrats and Republicans
| alike predicted.
Senators and Representatives of
both parties who have had long eX-
| perisnce with legislative jams such
as the one Congress is now caught
in freely declared that a number of
appropriation OF supply measures of
the utmost Importance may remain,
Undisposed of during the three weeks
which arc all that arc left before the
curtain falls upon the present Con
gress.
supply Bills May Go Over.
In fact, several Democratic and
Republican leaders went even fur
Their. They volunteered tho opinion
that 4 number of the supply bills
would not be passed by the present
Congress, but would have to be
handed to the next Congress, which
is expected to meet in extraordinary
session by May or juno.
Thus far the Senate has only dis
posed of two of the series of supply
bills passed by the House. The SEN
ate provided an Illuminating con-
trast between what il can and IL !
cannot accomplish in sp' ady lciyis- |
lation in disposlng OF these two bills, |
the postoffice and the pension meas !
Ures. The Senate took all of last1
week-when it was not speech-max
ing-in getting the postoffice bill
out of the way, finally passing it /
late Saturday night. II required OK
actly one minute 10 pass the pension |
bill.
Today the Senate tackled the wom-
an suffrage question once more before
setting down to the conference report |
of the much amended revenue bill !
which the House adopted Saturday /
night. The House only took seven
hours on Saturday to dispose OF the !
revenue bill, but, as several Senators
have signified their intention OF de-
livering carefully prepared addresses
on il, and as there is q wide diver
gence of opinion in the Senate re-
speeding many Of its/provisions, two
or three days are expected to elRpSe |
before that body finally bids it fare !
well and passes it on TO the Prcsi-
dent
In the meanwhile the House, having |
gotten the revenue bill out Of its way,
undertook today to finish the Navy |
appropriations bill still pending be- /
fore it. AS those provisions of the
measure involving Secretary Daniels
bigger. American navy program have |
yet to be disposed of, House leaders
stated they could not tell whether
the measure would be finally passed i
by tonight, as the Democratic whips
PLANNED.
Mineral Lands Bill.
The mineral lands leasing bill, haY-
ing been agreed on in conference and
being a privileged measure. may be
called up in the House carly this
week Representatives Scott Ferris,
Democrat, OF Oklahoma. chairman OF H
the House Public Lands Committee, II
while Representative Asbury +. Lever,
Democrat. chairman OF tho House
Agriculture Committee, hopes to get II
House action on the $1,000. 900 coo
wheat guaranty bill which his com
nittee is expected to faVorably re-
port today or tomorrow.
The Army appropriation bill, the
General Deficiency measure. and the
S5OO,O0O,0 900 extension -of-ozoYern-
northumberland bill arc all
three to be yet reported 10 the House
from committee, as is the packers
bill.
4 study OF the Senate as well as the
House calendar only served TO en-
Dhasize the legislative jam which
some Democrats and Republicans
admitted was daily plunging
hem deeper and deeper into despair.