The New York herald., 1922-02-08

Special Dispatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. C., Feb. q.
The entire Congressional legisla tive
program is to be speeded up as result
of conference dinner given tonight
by President Harding to the members
of the. Republican steering committees
| of the Senate and the House.
The Senate will undertake to ratify
Immediately the naval limitation treaty
1t will take precedence over all the
other treaties, so that the House will
be able to go ahead with the naval ap-
preparation bill on a revised basis.
There will be speeding up of the
tariff bill and it will have right of wav
! in the Senate as soon as it is reports"
by the Senate Finance Committee, which
is still considering the schedules and
the American valuation ISSUE. If the
tariff bill is reported before the other
treaties that have come from the inter-
national conference are acted upon they
will be set aside SO that the tariff can be
put into law.
President Harding told the Congress
sionai leaders he hoped to be able to
send the treaties to the Senate by the
| end OF the week. He held the same view
as the members of the Senate. that the
naval limitation treaty probably would
go through without difficulty and that
1t would help the House in the prepara-
tion of the appropriation measures.
Night Sessions Probable.
The Senate, with the different treaties
/ to consider, will have much more work
to do than the House, and the question
| came up as to whether it would be adj
| visable to hold night sessions beginning
at some early date. The Senate leaders
believed it would be well to do this
when the tariff bill is reported.
The members of the Senate said all
the treaties would be ratified, but that
opposition would develop. The hardest
| fight, they predicted, would be over the
four Power treaty by the United States,
! Great Britain, France and Japan.
The bonus bill will be taken up in
the House as soon as possible. Repre-
sentative Mondell, Republican House
leader said this bill would be ready In
! about ten days. In the meantime the
Senate is to take up the bill pending
for the reclassifcation of governmental
employees.
Financing of Bonus.
| The question of how The money is
to be obtained to pay the bonus was not
discussed in detail although 1t was evil
dent this matter is causing a great deal
of concern. The disposition is to leave
the money getting problem entirely with
the Ways and Means Committee. Fol-
| lowing the consideration of the bonus
measure. the House is to take up the
shipping bill and the agricultural bill
Tho sentiment seemed to be that even
| though hurry up tactics are employed
in both the Senate and in the House the
| legislative program cannot be completed
much before the middle of the summer
| Mr.. Mondell some time ago said he
| hoped the House would be able tc
finish this work by June 1. but there
was doubt in his mind tonight, par
| ticularly in view of the bonus fight
whether this could be done.
The program finally decided on to-
night is very much the same as the
one that has been tentatively de-
cided on heretofore, except as it re-
lates to the order in which the treaties
arc to be considered in the Senate.
| The dinner was in line with Presi-
dent Harding's long established policy
of getting together with the Senate
and House leaders. Those attending
the dinner were Senators Lodge (Mass.)
Curtis (Kan.), La Toilette (wis.)
| Wadsworth On. ". Fernald (Maine)
France (Md.). Frelinghuysen IN. J)
Kellogg (Minn.) and Mccormick Ill.)
Representatives Mondell (Wyo.), Long
worth (Ohio), Dunn IN. ", Greene
| (Vt.). Nolan (Cal), Anderson (Minn. }
! and Sanders (Ind.).