Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-16
Speaker LOngworth OPP
poses Converting Before
December 5th.
SEES PRESIDENT
Discusses Legislative Situa-
ton Facing the Lower
House.

WASHINGTON Sept. Is lRl--Addi-
tional views on the question of calling
special session of the new congress
were obtained today by President
Coolidge but there were no indica-
tions that he was inclined to change
his opinion that such session is un-
necessary.
Speaker. Lengworth, who was a
luncheon guest at the White House,
added the weight of his own opinion
to that of Senator Curtis of Kansas
and Representative Tilson Of Con-
necticut, the republican leaders of the
senate and house that there is no
necessity for assembling congress be-
fore December 5.
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
also discussed the question with the
president but expressed no opinion,
although it is known that he sees little
treason for o special meeting. Senator
Nye of North Dakota a member of the
republican insurgent bloc, which will
hold the balance of power in the new
senate, urged the president to issue a
call for a special session.
Representatives RamSeyer and Cole
of Iowa, and Hoch of Kansas, repub-
licans, called on the president to
welcome him back to the capital and
Mr. Cole said he volunteered the in
formation that the three saw no nee
essity for special session.
While he did not see Mr.. Coolidge,
Senator Caraway, democrat, Arkansas,
who returned to Washington today,
said congress should be assembled be-
fore December to hasten the work of
rehabilitation in the states swept by
the Mississippi flood. He reiterated
that the president should have acted
during the flood last April. ~
Informing the chief executive that
/ the house ways and means appro-
priations and interstate commerce
committee are ready to function, Mr..
LongWorth said it had been his ex-
perience that these committees could
accomplish much more of the prelim-
mary work for the session with con-
gress not in session as they then could
devote all of their time to the specific
problems before them.
| While declining to discuss the presl-
dental political situation, Mr.. Long
worth, who has been put forward as a
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton by his friends, discussed at some
length the legislative situation facing
| the house. He said a tax reduction
bill ought to be passed early in the
session but added that farm relief and
muscle shoals measures probably
would be deferred until later in the
session.
The speaker expressed the hope that
congress could enact some sort of a
relief measure for the farmers but
added that his observation in recent
visits around the country had been
that the farmers are in better condi-
ton now than they were at this time
last year.
Railroad consolidation and other
legislation affecting the rail carriers
arc to be considered by the house in
terstate commerce commission before
appropriations committee will get ar
early start in consideration of supply
measures for the next fiscal year.
Wh-ie committed to no special plan
the speaker declared for Boulder can
yon dam legislation but is not com
mitted to the Swing johnson bill. Ht
also said there were other projects II
the far west of nationwide import
ance awaiting a solution bV congress.