Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-08
EXTRA SESSION
AFTER APRIL 4,
SAYS HARDING
Conference Beginning
Of Program of Co.
operation, He Ayers.
Real Pressing Business
to Have Right of Way,
Newspapermen Told.

Washington, March s.
President Harding announced
early today that the special
session of congress would be
called not before April a and
might be- a week later. The an
nouneement was made after a
White House dinner which
Republican leaders of the SEN
ate and house attended. The
conference lasted four hours
and the president said the legis-
lative program had ben dis
cussed.
The president said this was the be-
ginning Of a program of cooperation.
After the conference broke up and
his guests had departed, the president
came out on the front portico of the
White House to talk to the newspaper
correspondents, about so Of whom
were present.
Taxation Discussed.
Asked about the special session, the
president said:
Il can only say to you that it will
not be earlier than April 4, and it
might possibly be week later.
I'VE also discussed taxation pro-
gram from the session. We were try
ing to determine which was the real
pressing business for congress. whether
it was emergency tariff legislation or
ules.
1--WE passed the matter up for fur
ther conference after there has been
a canvass Of tha committee in charge
of that legislation. 1t means that in
stead Of going into session of con-
gress without knowing whittier we are
going, we are trying to canvass the
whole situation and arrive at a pro-
Cooperation Program.
"This is the beginning Of the pro-
gram of cooperation between the
president and congress. 1t is an early
step in the fulfillment Of what I be-
lieve the best policy of conducting the
government, bringing the fellows. to.
gether and getting them acquainted
with others views"
The president said army and navy
matters had only been discussed very
casually" The failure Of the appro-
priation bills had been referred to, he
said, in considering what the special
session would have to handle.
Colombian Treaty Talked.
Ratification of the Colombian treaty
was mentioned, the president said, but
decision. This treaty, by which the
United States would pay $25.OO0.OOO
to Colombia for the partitioning of
Panama was reported out yesterday
by the senate foreign relations COM
mittee.
Opposition to the re-enactmeut of
the Payne -Aldrich tariff law, a stop
gap measure until new law can be
enacted developed at the conference,
according to some Of those attending.
Chairman Fordney, of the house
ways and means committee, was said to-
have laid before the president plans
for tariff revision and the proposal to
reenact the Payne Aldrich law met
present.
Tariff "Muddied".
One member of the house said the
legislative situation. insofar as it af-
fected tariff revision was more
''muddled" to his mind than it was be-
fore the conference. He referred to
differences between Chairman Fordney
and Representative Long.worth, of
Ohio, member of the ways and means
committee, over tariff revision, but
whether these were aired at the con-
ference was not made clear.
Chairman Fordney was said to have
presented an equalization tariff plan
to protect American industry, designed
to place foreign goods on the Americnn
market on par with the wholesale
prices of similar American goods.
President Harding said international
affairs had not been discussed and
some of the guests said specifically
that the adoption of the Knox resolu
ton to declare the state of war at an
end also had not entered into the dis
cussion.