Evening star., 1920-12-05
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

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TINE House in the short session
which opens tomorrow and
ends March will do little
else than pass the necessary
shops. 1t will probably take no Christ
mas recess. or only a week end holi-
day at most
This is the opinion expressed by
House Leader Mondell. Speaker Gill
lett. Chairman Good Of the appropria-
of the ways and means committee.
Chairman Campbell of the rules COM
mittee. former Republican Leader
Mann. Chairman Fess Of the commit
tee on education. Representative Mar
tin B. Madden OF the steering COM
mittee. Uncle Joe" Cannon and other
House leaders.
The House proposes to confine itself
almost exclusively to the appro-
priation bills for two principal rea-
sons-u) that it will have all it can
do to give proper attention to that
tremendous budget in such a short
time. and .(2) because the republican
majority is not disposed to allow
veto it's measures.
One measure that seems certain of
being passed Is the bill drafted by
Representative Edward c. Little of
Kansas codifyfng all of the federal
statutes into one big volume. This is
legislative assembly in the history
of the world. It is already in type and
ready to be bound into book form Just
as soon as Congress approves it.
Practically all Of the prominent men
in Congress feel that this book ought
to be printed as soon as possible and
it's passage will not take time from
any other important work. nor will It
cost the government any more money
In fact, Representative Little has
shown that his committee has actual
ly saved the government hundreds Of
thousands of dollars.
Larger Appropriations Committee.
The only work of reorganization
before the House is to enlarge the ap-
proprtattons committee from 81 to 35
members. who will consider all appro-
prtattons. in conformity with a reso-
luton adopted by the House last ses-
sion. The republican committee on
committees has selected seven men, one
from each OF the seven old committees
that lose their appropriAting authority
The democrats will do likewise
tee has for more than a week been
holding hearings on the sundry civil.
legislative, executive and judicial, and
the District appropriation bills. Sub
committees will conduct hearings on
the regular bills that have previously
come before it. Then. as soon as the
fourteen new members are appointed,
other subcommittees will be organ
lied to conduct hearings on the seven
new bills that the committee gets
from the agriculture, military affairs.
naval affairs, Indian afYairs, rivers
and harbors. post Office and post roads
and the foreign anaiIs committee
the republican leaders, who say that
they propose to have all expenditures
slashed to the minimum. All Of the
republican leaders mentioned above
subscribe to the statement that '-the
absolute disregard Of the officials In
ernment Of the crying need for econo-
my that the people Of the country
may be relieved from burdensome tax
alton is beyond belief"
Budget Legislation.
Chairman Good of the appropriations
committee says that the budget legis-
lation ought to be passed at this ses.
sion of Congress. The President We
toed this measure In the last session
because he said the authority to dis
charge the director and assistant di-
rector of the budget should rest with
the President Under protest the
House changed the bill to conform tc
the Presidents desires. but it failed or
account Of a democratic filibuster In
the Senate during the closing hour.
Chairman Good says that II this bill
is passed now it can be altered
promptly in the Harding administra-
ton, after March 4, so as to give the
power to oust the budget authority
to Congress. Representative Mann
and other republicans will support
Representative Good II he insists upon
passing this measure.
There are some other leaders who
feel that the action Of the House in
sacrificing the approprfating author
ity Of seven important committees SO
that the handling of all appropria.
tions might be done by one big ap-
propriations committee has really put
the essential feature Of the federal
budget to work. They are for wait
ing until Harding calls q special ses-
sion to pass the bill "for keeps az
they want it. They say that the au-
therity to dismiss the director Of the
budget and his assistant must and
will remain with Congress-
Chairman Fordney on his. return to