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Show UNITY OF PURPOSE. Washington advices indicate that the Republicans, who will control the next congress, have ironed out differences concerning policies to be pursued wdth reference to domestic subjects, a fact giving causoi'or felicitation. The next session will deal with momentous matters mat-ters of both national and international character, and there is a call for unity of purpose and action. Both houses will meet to expedite passage of appropriation appro-priation bills stemmed in the stagnation stagna-tion of legislation at the close of the last congress, and .the senate is prepared pre-pared to wrestle with the world' peace treaty and tho greatest international problem ever presented to the American Ameri-can congress tho league of nations covenant. Appropriations for the coming fiscal year whieh failed of enactment in tho last congress and which must be rushed through aggregate more than three and a half billion dollars, as they passed the house in the last session. These iu-eludo iu-eludo agriculture, $31,073,000; army, $1,070,500,000; District of Columbia, $14,093,000; navy, $720,793,000; sundry civil, $851,171,000; deficiency, $26,937,-000; $26,937,-000; railroad appropriation, $750,000,-000, $750,000,-000, and Indian supply, $11,066,000. Besides Be-sides appropriations and the peaco treaty, there is much other legislation of pressing importance to cgne before the session. Tariff reform and revenue adjustment, howrever, probably will not be undertaken at the present time. General legislative problems to come before the congress of major importance are the disposition of the railroads, woman suffrage, immigration reform on the basis of conditions changed by the war, Americanization measures and prohibitions pro-hibitions against the growing conditions condi-tions of Bolshevism and anarchy, enforcement en-forcement of wartime prohibition, a government budget system for appropriations, appro-priations, and reorganization of tho national na-tional defense, which includes primarily primar-ily the adoption, of a national military policy with respect to the army. Numerous Nu-merous measures- are to- be submitted providing for universal military service and the military committees in both houses are in favor of such a system. Whether they are to be supported in this by the Democratic executives of the government remains to be seen. Of late there has been a growing suspicion sus-picion that they are not. |