Show By RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON Jan 10 The 10 The question of whether this session essi of congress is tot become pall pally an Incubator for tor an early early- pe cial Jal se session Ion of or the seventy second congress with its almost evenly di divided divided di- di vided house and senate now teems to tole tolie le lie largely with wib a comparatively small m group of progressive c Republicans and Democrats in the senate nate This session has bas all nU the makings of or ofa ora a a. fearful jam so high is the heap of controversial measures and matters for or argument Only a a. determined d nearly all aU con can ruthless ss effort by bj concerned can assure the passage of the supply and appropriation bills which 13 Is necessary if a special tp session is to tobe be jc avoided i Esc Escape pc from the special pedal would teem seem em to require active coo cooperation of r the group which j I lis most willing to force on one Members' Members of that group nt at la last t accounts in i in-i d such progressive Republican senators as Borah of Idaho Norris Nonis' of or Nebraska Blame and La Follette ot of Wisconsin Nye of North Dakota and Brookhart of Iowa Iova with such Demo cratsas Wheeler and Walsh of Montana MoD Mon Mon- tana Caraway of Arkansas Dill of ot Washington and McKellar of ot Tenne Ten Ten- ne LONGWORTH OPTIMISTIC Speaker ker Longworth has hit promised that the house will get through in time to make a special se session on u un unnecessary n- n necessary even even indicating that there will be a vote oil on the NorrIs Muscle Shoals bill and the Norris or Gifford lame-duck lame amendment But the situation is il such that If the special session on is to be avoided virtually every man in the the- senate senat will wUl have to keep quiet about the things h he Js Is most anxious to talk about It U was easy enough to realize the special session possibilities when congress met in ln December b but t hair hac haira haca a dozen issues have haye lately become so prominent in such al a large a-large large uge way way that that the chances have materially Jn- Jn In- In creased The necessity of or a great deal of compromising between the administration for forces s and the extra session group has increased in pro pro pro- portion MANY NEW FACTORS The new threatening factors in include include in- in clude dude the proposal to recons reconsider con confirmation of three federal power commission members because the they dismissed Solicitor Russell and Chief Accountant King the new railroad consolidation plan indorsed by President Incident Inci mci- dent Hoover the Lucas Norris dent the report of the Wickersham committee on prohibition enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment the proposal to redeem adjusted adjust adjust- ed service certificates for war veterans veterans vet yet erans in cash the proposal or an In Investigation tn iii- of the fed federal ral farm boards board's work and the La Follette r resolution resolution regarded luton regarded ed as a a slap lap at President Hoover Hoover to Hoover t to favor the relief of oC human suffering before considering consider consider- ing log t the interests of oC wealthy income taxpayers ta The Te proposal to redeem rede the adjusted adust- adust adjust ed service certificates has received d such a large amount of support both bothIn bl In i congress and oyer over the country that lt It apparently will have to be b wll fought out Already there has h been ben some very ver bitter debate debat over oer the ad advisability ad- ad a. a of ot the scheme which It Is i said would wold ct cost from on one to three tee billion dollars dolas at a time when government government govern govern- gover ment finances are by no paeans means mea inthe Inthe in inthe the best bet condition GARNER GARNR BACKS PLAN The veterans have a strong hold holdon on c congress and although the American Amerlean Amer Amer- lean ican Legion has failed to t indorse the plan a great number numbe of them are actively working for it i. i Even Congressman Congressman Con Con- gessman gressman Jack Garner Garer Democratic leader in the house has ha Joined the th clamor camor agreeing that the pa payments ments would both aid ad distressed veterans and stimulate business busine by putting a alot alot lot Jot of new money moncy into ito circulation The railroad consolidation plan for fora a trunk four-trunk line lne merger featuring the Pennsylvania New York Central Baltimore d S Ohio and Nickel Plate offers large possibilities for debate which were quickly apparent when Senator Couzens Cuzens attacked President Hoover Hover for his hi unethical it and ad Senator Fess Fe through the mimeographs of at his hi Republican national na na- na liona committee replied to Couzens There Thee is some sentiment to give conge congress s a large voice In the plan along with wIt the Interstate commerce commerce com corn merce commission the te railroads and I the president |