| Show CONGRESS READY FOR LONG GRIND CHAMP CLARK AGAIN CHOSEN SPEAKER OF HOUSE AND CLARKE PRESIDES IN SENATE Time Old Republican Members' Members Back Again In Lower Branch But Democrats Democrats Dem Dem- Have Majority in Both Hou Houses s. s Washington Congress assembled and organized on Monday December 6 Four hours' hours work in the house saw Speaker Clark returned to the chair Representative Mann returned to the leadership of the Republican minority the introduction of 2000 bills and resolutions resolutions reso reso- many of them proposing measures measures measures meas meas- ures of national defense and many more in opposition ion the reappearance of constitutional amendments to enfranchise enfranchise en en- franchise women and a miniature rules fight that flickered out with the adoption adoption adoption tion of last years year's rules with a few changes In the senate practically nothing was was done done except the election of Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Clarke of Arkansas as president pro tempore Vice-President Vice Marshall was absent because of the the Illness of his wife Both houses then after sending a joint committee to the White House to give official notice of the opening of congress adjourned until Tuesday The greatest budget of expenditures ever placed before any American congress congress congress con con- gress In times of peace was brought in from the various branches of the government government government gov gov- the total being some one one- hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred and seventy million dollars more than was asked for last ye year r. r The gret part of the proposed Increased expenditure Is for the enlarged army an danvy program and aside from working out the problem of national defense it will bethe be the business of congress congress congress con con- gress to raise the revenue to pay for it timers Old-timers most of them Republicans cans re-elected re after atter going down before before be be- fore the presidential Democratic lando landslide landslide land land- slide of 1912 came trooping back to places In the house eager for a a. a part partin in n the absorbing business of the next few months Uncle Joe Cannon sat on a bench in the front row row- rowand and laughed laugh laugh- ed while the house Se got into its little row over the rules and hot references to o were were hurled back and I d forth across the dividing dividing- aisle aisle |
