Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-02
CALL FOR EXTRA
SESSION IS LIKELY
As CONCRESSO OPENS
Little Chance Seen For
Passage of Any But
Supply Measures

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-The
turbulent SiXtyeighth congress, with
its record already marked by the
great Investigations of last winter
and by regime Of progressive-in-
surgent control, returned Monday for
its final short session which bids far
to be as stormy as was its first.
The unprecedented Ousting of the
La Toilette senators from party
councils by the Republican senate
caucus Friday was the first event of
the session and the bitterness and
dissension thus accentuated will very
likely makes any but the most rou
tine business impossible.
In the deliberate opinion of house
and senate leaders on the eve of the
reconvepng Of congress this term
will accomplish nothing beyond the
passing of the appropriation bills
and possibly will dispose Of Muscle
Shoals. Other measures will no
doubt be debated and discussed at
length, especially in the senate, and
no doubt may pass one or the other
of the two houses, but there is no
general expectation here that other
important bills will be enacted into
laws.
Supply Bills First
The passage Of the appropria ton
bills to provide funds to run the gov
eminent for the next fiscal year is a
necessity. Unless they are enacted
the government cannot go on. The
result, Of course, of the failure of
any of the important supply bills to
pass before this congress goes OFT
of existence March 4 would be the
calling of an extra session of the
new congress Immediately after
March l.
President Coolidge has repeatedly
stated he did not wish to call an ex-
/. ira session next spring. And yet the
unsettled situation in this short ses-
sion may make the calling of a spe-
eial session necessary. If during the
three months of this term the supply
bills are delayed by the pickering
and dissension which broke out even
before the term got under way the
end of next February may see a spe-
cial session inevitable
l Three of the outstanding Repub-
Ucan figures in the senate died dur
ing the recess, Senator Lodge, Mas
sachusetts, Republican floor leader;
Senator Colt, Rhode Island, chair
man of the immigration committee,
and Senator Brandegee, Connecticut,
chairman of the judiciary committee.
Senator Curtis, Kansas, former Re
publican whip, was elected Republic.
an leader at the caucus Friday to
secceed Lodge. But the most impor-
tant change in senate personnel dur
ing the recess probably was the ap-
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Chairman William M. Butler, to take
Lodges seat. The titular leader of
the Republican party, the close
friend and confidant of President
Coolidge, possessed of the prestige of
having led the party through a tri.
umphant campaign, Butler, though
the newest senator of the whole
body. will undoubtedly prove to be
one of the most influential.
House Lineup Unchanged
There were practically no changes
in the personnel of the house during
! the recess. The same leaders and
the same lineup of Republicans.
Democrats and Progressives will ap.
pear when the house reconvenes to-
morrow. Though leading Republic
an congressman, including the Re-
o.,
have expressed themselves in favor
o. "disciplining" progressive Repub-
llcan members who opposed Presi-
dent Coolidge in the recent cam
paign, it Is not believed this discip.
line will Aprove as severe as was
meted out in the senate. No plans
so far have been evident to bar
house Progressives from Republican
committee assignments.
Little will be done at the first
days session tomorrow other than
TO swear in new members. to mass
resolutions of regret over the death
or members during the recess. and to
appoint committees to notify the
president the congress is in session
tuesday neither house plans to meet
the adjournment being taken out OF
respect to members who have died
On Wednesday the presidents mes
sage will be read to both houses ir
joint session, and on Thursday the
presidents budget recommendation
4 probably will be presented