The Washington herald., 1920-12-07
PACT TO ENTER
LAST MESSAGE,
SENATORSHEAR
Congress Heads Think VII
son Plans to Resubmit
Peace Treaty.
TAX APPEAL RUMORED
President Expected to Ask
Repeal Of Income and
Excess Profit Bills.
BY ROBERT BARRY.

President Wilson. yielding to the
will of his physician, will not ap-
pear at the Capitol today to de-
liver in person what may prove his
final message to Congress. He
so announced yesterday afternoon
when a joint committee of the
House and Senate visited him at
the White House on the courtesy
call to notify him of the convening
of Congress
Wilson, greeting the Congress
sional committee yesterday. walked
into the Blue Room with the aid Of
a cane. He apologized. smilingly.
for the cane. saying. You see, /
still am using . third leg"
Message to BE Important.
Congress leaders last night indi-
Gated that Mr. Wilson's message
would be of especial Importance in
two respects:
Renewal of his previous recon-
mendation for repeal of excess
profits taxes and income surtaxes
and revision of other provisions OF
the revenue laws SO as to simplify
them.
His discussion of international
relations, with a strong probability
of his resubmitting to the Senate
the treaty of Versailles 'ernbodying
the covenant Of the league.
The final session Of the Sixty
sixth Congress which began yester-
day is prepared to enact emergency
legislation until the committees
handling the appropriation bills are
ready to report. Estimates aggre-
eating s4.s53,S56,75s were submitted
to the Speaker OF the House by the
Secretary of the Treasury
Billion In Excess.
Those estimates are $1,000, ,00o. 900
in excess of the appropriations
made for the current fiscal year.
They are approximately s210.0 .000, 200
less than. what the executive de-
partments requested for the cur
rent year: They are at least 81
900. 900. 900 in excess OF what Con-
gress leaders say will he4-Rnpro-
priated. The military and naval
establishments requested appropria-
tons aggregating s1,357,7s7,733, OF
which the army wants S699,275, ,502
and the navy s65s,52e,231.
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Treaty May Be Revived.
1t was not doubted that the Presi-
dent in keeping with. tradition
would.be obliged to discuss the for
eigp affairs of the government, in
asmuch as the message at the open
ing of Congress is to discuss the
state of the nation" For that rea'
son a circumstantial story gained
crederce at the Capitol that the SEN
ate leaders might expect a resub
mission of the treaty. 1t was urged
that by such a course Wilson would
be consistent in his argument for a
termination of the technical wal
status between the United State!
and Germany.
Try to Force Hands.
Instead of allowing the treaty Il
rest in a pigeonhole at the executive
offices. he would force the Repub
lican leaders to assume responsible
ity for shelving IL in the Committed
on Foreign Relations.
The response of the Senate leader:
to any such action by the President
would be repasssge of the Kno,
resolution declaring peace by legis
lative action and repudiating tn
treaty of Versailles. Senator Kno,
had not thought of urging considera
tion of his resolution at this session
but some such COURSE It Is held
might become necessary to meet !;
new offensive by the President.
To Repeal War Laws.
il is the purpose of Republican
leaders to pass. at the earliest pos
sible date. a resolution repeaIinI
almost a score of war emergenc,
statutes Representative Andrew
J. Volstead. of Minnesota. chairman
of the House Committee on the Ju
dietary. will call up in the Hous,
today. IL possible. a resolution re
pea1ing the war laws. Right O
way has been granted to the emer
gency Immigration legislation to
day. but the Volstead measure will
follow II.
The Senate Will proceed to tn,
consideration of the Kenyon-Ken
drick bill for regulation Of tn
meat packing Industry.
The Volstead resolution, whicl
seeks to put an end to the operatio,
IN peace of statutes held justine,
only in the stress of actual wa
conditions, embodies the 1anguag
of the Knox peace resolution afte
eliminating the, legislative recogni
At, 80 naaca statutas