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Show CONGRESS VILL MEETTDDAY FOR FINALEFFDRT Members Return From Christmas Holidays Prepared Pre-pared for Hard Work on Legislation. HOUSE WILL HOLD NIGHT SESSIONS Fate of Railway Measures in Doubt Owing to Labor Opposition; Special Session Ses-sion Not Favored. WASHINGTON, .Ian. 1. Members of congress were returning to Washington tonight from their Christmas holiday, prepared to got down to hard work on the accumulation of legislation that must be dealt with before adjournment on March 4. With railroad legislation and revenue deficits confronting them as unusual issues, the rank and file are determined to labor with a will to clear the way of routine business, particularly the appropriation appro-priation bills, which must be completed before the actual revenue needs cau be definitely established. Estimates on all these, measures, including especially the extra heavy army and navy supply .bills, are in hand, giving the house ways and means committee enotign information upon which to frame revenue legislation at once. Appropriation measures will be considered con-sidered in the senate immediately, the ndian bill probably being the first taken up, whilo various committees are engaged in paving the way for consideration consid-eration of railroad measures, a corrupt practices bill and other general legislation. legisla-tion. The house, which already had passed five appropriation .bills, still has nine more to work out, and will approach ap-proach that task vigorously, with night sessions in prospect for the near future. Returning members who were reelected, re-elected, do no look with favor on the talk of an extra session, and declare they are willing to work night and day to avert one. They insist that none will be necessary unless action by congress on the railroad legislation proposed by the president should be held up. Kven an that event all arc not satisfied that the president would call au extra session for this purpose. |