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DATE NOT|YET DECIDED
FOR CONGRESS SESSION
Call, When Issued, Will Not Sum
mon Members of Senate and
House Before April 4, and
May Be Week Later.

washington, MdTcn Or ieoiueh'
Harding announced early today that
the special session of congress would
not be called before April and
might be a week later.
The announcement was made at
ter White House dinner which Re-
pubican leaders of senate and house
attended. The conference lasted four
hours and the president said the leg
islative program had been dis
eussed.
The president said this was the be-
ginning of a program OF coopera-
ton. Various subjects were discuss
ed, he added, in an attempt to ascer-
tain the most important to be taken
up by the next congress.
After the conference broke up
and his guests had departed the
president came out bn the front por-
tito of the White House to talk to
the correspondents, about SO OF
whom were present.
Asked about the special session.
the president said:%
81 can only say to you that it will
not, be earlier than April a and it
might possibly be week later.
1--WE also discussed taxation pro-
gram for the session. We were try
ing to determine which was the
real pressing business for congress,
whether it was emergency tariff leg
islation or a complete REVISION OF
the tax schedules"
No Decision Reached
1--WE passed the matter up for
further conference after there had
been a canvass of the committees in
charge of that legislation. 1t means
shat instead of going into\a session
of congress without knowing Will
ther we are going we are trying to
canvass the whole situation and ar
rive at program.
, etThis is the beginning of the pro-
xramfor cooperation between. the
uresident land congress. 1t is an
early step in the fulfillment of what
I consider the best policy Of con-
ducting government bringing the
fellows together and getting them
acquainted with each others views
The president said army and navy
matters had only been discussed
Every casually" The failure of the
appropriation bill has been referred
he said in considering what the spe-
cial session would have to handle.
Ratification of the Colombian
treaty was mentioned, the president
said, but he indicated that there had
been no decision. This treaty by
which the United States would pay
s25,OOO,OOO to Colombia for the
partitioning of Panama was report
ed out yesterday by the senate for
eign relations committee.
Some opposition to the proposal
to reenact the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law as stop gap measure until
new law can be enacted developed
st the conference according to some
. of those attending.
One member of the house, said the
legislative situation in so far is it
affected tariff revision was more
Hmuddled" to his mind than it was
before the conference. He referred
to differences between Chairman
Fordney and Representative Long
worth Of Ohio, a member Of the
ways and means committee over
tariff revision but whether these
we're aired at the conference was
not made clear.
Chairman Fordney was said to
have presented a tariff plan to pro-
teet American industry designed to
place foreign goods on the Amerl-
can market on par, the wholesale
prices of similar American goods.
President Harding said interna-
tonal affairs had not been discussed
and some of the guests said specifi-
eaIIy that the adoption Of the Knox
resolution to declare the state OF
war at an end also had not entered
into the discussion.
Score at Dinner