Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-25
Program of Both Branches
Made With View to Ad-
journing by June /.
HOUSE TO FORCE WAY
THROUGH FUND BILLS
World Tribunal Friends See But
One Chance for Adherence
to Be Refused.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The January program of Congress
has been mapped out by leaders in
both Senate and House.
The World Court and the tax re-
duction bill will consume most of the
time at the Senate end of the Capitol.
The House will drive ahead with
the regular appropriation bills, with
the Burton bills for ratifying the war
debt settlements with Belgium, Italy
and others in the offing.
Already the talk of adjournment Of
Congress- by June is growing strong
err. and efforts are being made to so
shape the legislative situation that
this will be possible.
The World Court debate. already
well underway, will continue in the
Senate when that body meets January
4. Senator Shipstead OF Minnesota,
Farmer-Labor, has given formal no
tice he will address the Senate on that
date He Is an opponent of the ad-
herence Of the United States to the
court as it now exists. Senators VII
lis and Fess of Ohio, both supporters
e the court proposal, have announced
they will speak for the court.
Reservations Opposed.
Republican and Democratic Sena-
tors supporting the court proposal are
disinclined to accept the reservations
suggested by Senator Pepper of Penn
sylvania, seeking TO make more spe-
cific and explicit the stand OF the
United states toward the practice Of
giving advisory opinions. They feel
that the reservation In the Swa nson
resolution for ratification of the proto-
col is sufficiently wide enough to cover
the ground. The language of this
reservation is:
That the United States shall not
be bound by advisory opinions which
may be rendered by the court upon
questions which the United States has
not voluntarily submitted for its judg-
ment"
The Senators on both sides of the
chamber favoring adherence are pretty
well content to vote for ratification
with the reservations suggested by the
President. They certainty will oppose
loading the resolution down with other
reservations.
Ratification Of the World Court
protocol is predicted by it's Republican
supporterS-witho one mental reserva-
ton. They fear developments should
Democratic Senators crow too Justify
for the League of Nations and predict
entry of the United States into the
league. Such a course by Democrats
would lose the court not few Repub
Hcan votes. 1t Is said. The Democrats
will be urged to confine themselves to
the court, emitting discussion Of the
league.
Opponents Aim Voiced.
The tactics of the opponents OF the
H., I.
Gratis into vociferouS advocacy of the
League of Nations in the Senate de
bate, if they can. Both Democrats
and Republican supporters of the
court will be charged by anti-court
Senators with soft-pedaling, incon-
sistency and hypocrisy before the de
bate is over.
At present the court Senators count
only II Senators as Internationally OPP
posed to entrance into the court. But
there Is a score or more who still have
to determine definitely how they Will
vote. 1t will take 80 votes to defeat
ratification, If the entire membership
of the Senate IS accounted for. Should
the Senate decline to seat Gerald p.
Nye Of North Dakota, appointed to fill
the vacancy caused by Senator Ladd's
death, 1t would require only 80 votes
in opposition to prevent ratification.
Opponents of the court. however, are
hoping that Senator Nye will vote
against the court should he be seated.
SO there would be little gained one
way or the other in the matter of his
seating.
Case to Come Up Soon.
The Nye case, a matter of highest
privilege, is expected to come before
the Senate as soon as it reassembles.
Senators who are urging his seating
insist that their strength is growing,
| that many Senators are inclined to
give him their support on the ground
that whether a Senator is a State
officer is a moot question, and that q
State is entitled to full representation
| in the Senate. The privileges and
elections committee. however. has re
ported against seating Mr.. Nye.
Consideration Of the tax bill will
he begun in the Senate finance com
mittee January 4, and Senator Smoot,
chairman, hopes to report it to the
| Senate by January 20. The belief is
strongly expressed that 1t will be re
| ported largely in the same form it
| came from the House and that ulti-
mately 1t will pass with little change.
While the progressives and the Demo
Gratis both find fault with the bin. they
attack it from different angles, and a
coalition between them does not nov
seem probable.
The Senate foreign relations COM
, mittee has before it a resolution, in
troduced by Senator Reed Of Missouri
Democrat, providing for investigation
to determine what money, if any, has
been expended to influence the action
Of the United States in the settlement
of the foreign war debts and the at
titude of the United States toward
the World Court. and by whom. II
this inquiry is undertaken, fireworks
are threatened by opponents of the
debt settlements and the court.
House Approval Seen.
Majority Leader Tilson of the House
expects that the foreign debt settle
ments will be ratified promptly by
that body, although there will be some
scattered opposition. The disposition
of Senator Smoot, who has charge of
the bills ratifying the settlements In
the Senate, Is now to wait until the
House has acted before asking the
Senate to take them up.
The first business to come before
the House Immediately after 1t recon
venes will be appropriation bills. 1t
still has TO put the finishing touches
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