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Show CONGRESS PLANNING TO GET VACATION Recess Probable Late in June Until August 1; Will Not Halt Kevenue Bill. WASHINGTON, May 28. Congress tonight apparently bad found a way to provide the new war revenue legislation legis-lation insisted upon by President Wilson Wil-son without abandoning entirely its long-cherished plan to get out of Washington Wash-ington for a summer vacation. Leaders of both parties joined in conferences and approved a program that contemplates prompt action on pending appropriation bills, to be followed fol-lowed about June 15 or 20 by a recess of both houses until August 1, while the ways and means committee frames the revenue bill. After passage of the measure by the house, probably about August 10, the house would recess for thirty days, to await action in the senate. sen-ate. The plan will bo submitted to the ways and means committee tomorrow. The Democrats of the committee probably prob-ably will frame a tentative draft upon which the entire membership will build the bill, after hearings lasting a fortnight fort-night or more. Representative Kitchin of North Carolina, chairman of the ways and means committee, in the house today charged that a powerful lobby, working for revision of the new zone postal rates on newspapers and periodicals, was responsible for the demand" for keeping congress in session. He declared de-clared the lobby hoped to have the senate sen-ate put an amendment repealing or modifj'ing the zone system law on the revenue bill, and to keep it there by getting the president or the secretary of the treasury to insist upon the house conferees yielding when election or adjournment time approached. |