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Show CONGRESS TO MEET AMUM5 Leaders Determined to Avoid an Extra Session if Possible. WASHINGTON, Dec. :T. With leaders !n both houses till determined to push through ail necessary legislation in order , to avert an extra session after March 4 next, coneress will reconvene Tuesday, after one of the shortest holiday recesses on record. j Outelda of appropriation bills and a few , srenerai measures In the Louso there remains re-mains much for the senate to do; in fact, the entire lpislailve programme outlined at the opening of tlie ee;lon by the president is yet to be accomplished. Although Al-though ten Immigration bill with tho literacy lit-eracy test etl'd remains the unfinished business of the senate, appropriation measures have the riKrit of v.-ay und the immigration fiht bgun last xveck is likely like-ly to be replaced by the District of Columbia Co-lumbia supply bill early in the -week. A? to the immtBration bbi. t..cre is a frrowiner disposition on the part of some Democrats to sidetrack It, If possible, If not to defeat It. Penator Iewis of II-1 II-1 InoiF?. after h recent conference v'tth the president, said that the president xvas opposed to such a form of ImmbrrBiion i restrict lou. The JUinoIs senator threw down thie ganpe of battle over this issue is-sue to Its champions, x ith the further announcement tbnt he Intended to Introduce Intro-duce an amendment at tho proper tima to strike out the literacy test altogether. fome senators be!!e'4 enough votes can be found to paFs such an amendment. amend-ment. Such an ot:tcome, In the opinion of senators Democrats and Republicans as well who favor the measure, would operate to detVai tlie bill entirely. Senator Sena-tor Smith of South Carolina, chairman of the immigration committee, proposes to keep up the fiprht for the bill, literacy U-st and ail, and thinks President Wilson Wil-son xvii! be forced to (five it his official approval or disapproval. Stlrrlnar times that will rival In Interest Inter-est the fltrht ov?r the prohibition constitutional consti-tutional amendment last week are expected ex-pected eoon after JomiHry 1, when a rule will be reported to provide for debate on a resolution for submission of a consti- j tutional amendment to extend enffragre to women. Suffrage advocates and Its opponents op-ponents have been exerting heroic efforts 1 to bring about a vn on the rule and I resolution. Representative Henry, chair- man of the rules committee, plans to submit the Issue within a few days. Traders In both branches are looklnp forward to prolonsed discussion over tho navul and military establishment, which have received so much exploitation since the openlntr of congress. The discupston will come over the appropriation bills, soon to be well under way In the house. Senate committees plan to besrln work on t'.ie measures before they come forma I ry from the house, , |