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Show CONGRESS READ! FOR LONG GRIND Old-Time Republican Members E.-ck Again in Lower Branch, But Democrats Dem-ocrats Have Majority in Both Houses. YsllI"Kton. - Congress assembled nn.i organized on Monday, December C I' our hours' work in the house saw Speaker Clark returned to the chair Representative Alum, returned to the eadership of the Republican minoritv; the introduction of 2.000 bills and resolutions, reso-lutions, many of them proposing measures meas-ures of national defense and manv more In opposition; the reappearance of constitutional amendments to enfranchise en-franchise women and a miniature rules fight that flickered out with the adoption adop-tion of last year's rules with a few changes. In the senate -practically nothing was done except the election of Senator Sena-tor Clarke of Arkansas as president pro tempore. Vice-President Marshall was absent because of the illness of his wife. Both houses then, after sending a joint committee to the White House to give official notice of the opening of congress, adjourned until Tuesday. The greatest budget of expenditures ever placed before any American congress con-gress in times of peace was brought in from- the various branches of the government, gov-ernment, th total being someone hundred hun-dred and seventy million dollars more than was asked for last year. The great part of the proposed increased expenditure is for the enlarged army an danvy program, and aside from working out the problem of national defense, it will be the business of congress con-gress to raise the revenue to pay for it. Old-timers, most of them Republicans Republi-cans re-elected after going down before be-fore the presidential Democratic landslide land-slide of 1912, came trooping back to places in the house, eager for a part In the absorbing business of the next tew months. "Uncle Joe" Cannon sat on a bench in the front row and laughed laugh-ed while the house got into its little row over the rules and hot references to "Cannonism" were hurled back and torth across the dividing aisle. |