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Show COOKS TO QUIT EARLY M OCTOBER Plans for Rushing Work Completed ; Speed in Senate Essential. M'ASHJNGTON, Sept. 16. Congressional Congression-al plans, completed . today, contemplate adjournment early in October. Speed in the senate alone is essential to carrying this plan Into effect. The house has almost completed Us work and conferees are making all possible haste to reach agreements on measures that have passed both houses. Indications are that the senate will cooperate co-operate as it rushed through the trading with the enemy and war bond bills last week in record time and has taken hold of the soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill, one of the two remaining big measures mea-sures it has to pass, with an apparent determination to expedite consideration of it. Cloture may be resorted to if necessary. neces-sary. Aside from the Insurance measure and the seven billion dollar war deficiency bill, most of the big legislation of the session will be In conference this week. Included are the war tax, war bond and trading with the enemy bills. Agreement on the war tax bill some time this week Is anticipated, as its consideration con-sideration has progressed smoothly. Forecasts are that the bill will emerge from conference carrying provisions for levies of about $2,500,000,000. ; Only a few big differences exist oe-tween oe-tween the two houses on the war credits cred-its and trading with the enemy measures. mea-sures. Whether the alien draft resolution, adopted by the senate last week, will be taken up in the house is undetermined. Many members want it adopted, but it may be crowded out in the rush preceding pre-ceding adjournment. The war deficiency bill probably will pass the house tomorrow. The senate will reconvene Tuesday and will take up the Webb export trading bill, already passed by the house, and this will be followed by the Walsh oil land leasing bill. The deficiency measure may displace dis-place one of these. The insurance bill is being given committee consideration and probably will be reported late this week. The house committee, appointed to Investigate In-vestigate defective ammunition, will begin be-gin its hearings tomorrow, with a number num-ber of employees, including inspectors and chemists, of the FranRford arsenal, called as witnesses. |