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Show I'm CONGRESS SESSION j TO BE PROLONGED ) jl'll Little Hope Now fou Completion ii'ijl of Work Before the Mid- '. ' p'M die of June. t '3 By Loused Wire to Tho Tribune. J r.c'p WASHINGTON, March 10. Members ( J k j .1 of congress who planned to leave Wash- , i't,!j Ington hi May now fear that tho present l, cession will extend over to June. De- ''tf''H'1 velopments in the legislative programme ' I'M have become so complicated that an early ".' '' , Hrtjournmcnt of congress Is not looked a t ' upon as probable. , fyltP'iji This will likely cause a chango In the ;l( ijl j progrnmme of Prsldcnt Taft. lie had I I ' planned to leave Washington In May on J!" "'s northwestern ami Alaskan trip and i ul ' nrrlvQ I" Beverly, Mass., Into In June, i I '1 fS'atlonal loglolators who desired to get , T oaclc Into their districts to begin an early . J I, 'i ' J Mmpalgn for tho next fall election, are I. I'.a rhsgrlned at tho outlook. Especially In 1 '!')' ' ln" bouso bo anxiety to clean up the i f,ii'U calendar with a whoop and a hurrah '" is aI,i' expressed. )' i j J It would not bo surprising If tho pres- ' Ai't.n :H cnt session lasted until the middle of j It.', ' j June. , Ir'J'i 'In TVhllo tho Republicans arc clamoring f Kitfri Hal tov ;in cnr' adjournment, they aro largu- i 'vK' i'S 'y rcnponsiblo for tho lengthening of tho ' li'liH w programme. Thoir tendency to overhaul j 4 L the railroad bill took affairs back soino- ,!')! . ifl what. Tho houso committee Is not ,i ;(d j Ihrough Its consideration of the bill, and 'jl'n..' , Chairman Mann says that the committee , -.Villi desires to know everything that is ln tho I r'r-J mnasuro boforo It Is reported. -HJ i Senator Elkins predicted today that the ' : i penato would tsiko a month for Its con- "I sldcratioii of the bill. Tho conservation '.ffij'l'i bills bavo hardly been touched. Up to , I M the present tlmo tho appropriation bills Ij lmvo absorbed tho largest amount of time. la Other delay has been occasioned by tho ; ',',', congressional investigation of tho Ballln- L: gcr-PInchot Investigation. |