Show economic highlights highlights nw figh lights it was long supposed that the president would call a special session of congress immediately on tile the outbreak of a war in ili order to bring about revision of the neutrality act the fact that the president delayed Is regarded la in informed quarters as being evidence that the shift in congressional was not so great as was generally supposed at least in early stages of the struggle A number of congressmen who halfheartedly half heartedly supported the total arms embargo passed by the last congress though they were skeptical of its wis wisdom doin have announced that they will now vote for the cash and carry plan but the leaders of the embargo group have not changed their views a whit if anything they feel more strongly than ever eer that america must re fuse to sell arms anna and war materials to any belligerent power irrespective of where our ompa ahles lie senator borah has bus tin ani bounced that he will fight to the bitter end bull against any proposal 1 to lift the embargo he ha Is convinced that halfway half way neutrality would would sooner or later lead us to war there are rumors that certain unnamed senators have said privately that if it becomes necessary they will conduct a filibuster against the cash and carry plan and keep congress inactively in session in reply to tills this administration tra tion supporters have stated that they may impose cloture and limitation of debate rules which are brought into play only on el ex tra ordinary beca occasions usually when a filibuster Is threatened however itt at might be extremely difficult to invoke these rules in tills this caso case congressmen of both parties are extremely zealous of their rights to speak as long as they want on any ally measure find and they know full well that if limitation of cf debate Is used to silence tile the 01 opponents of a measure they favor it can also bemused be used to silence them on oil some other occasion there la Is a another n 0 t h e r possibility which Is now being discussed that congress might simply repeal the embargo yet not pass tile the cash nna and carry plan that would put us on oil a basis of international law so far as trade abroad Is concerned on american ships could carry arms to the warring powers it they wished in the view of anany tills this would bo be the worst possible solution to the neutrality problem they think it would make inake inevitable our entry into the war at tin an early date due to the fact that german U 11 boats would certainly sink Ame american americal ships carrying supplies to britain possible whatever course congress takes we usual informed view I 1 Is s that debate Is likely to be long ano and bitter and that a special sessi session oll might drag into the regular session before definite legislative action occurs interesting news Is also filtering out ot of WAsh washington lugton concerning other plans which government officials are said to be preparing tor for presentation to congress these plans according to a recent INS dispatch from the capital involve extremely high war profits taxes on industries selling supplies Eup plies to europe stringent legislation to io prevent food hoarding boarding and profit coring laws to strengthen the gov powers to combat espionage and sabbo tage em emerged ergen cy powers under which the president could intervene directly in case of labor laboi troubles tiou bles in ili essential industries officials queried say bay the proposals uie are still in the tentative stage in some quarters where allied sentiment Is at its highest pitch it has been proposed that congress repeal the johnson act which nations which have hae lie de faulted on oil debts owed to us a classification including ludIng all the powers involved in ill the world W war ar save sae little finland irom from obtaining credit here but so far at least the general temper of con gross giess to which the war viv debts are among the surest sorest of subjects Is ia overwhelmingly in favor of the johnson act exactly as it now stands there are aie some of the highlights of the present situation summing up all it is apparent that there is much confusion as u to what we should do to maintain our neutrality lt and to protect our financial structure and that considerable time must pass before it a definite I 1 and workable program can be put into action the reports that the presidents brain trust has been dropped la Is indicative of a shift in white house policy the brain tr usters will keep keel their official government jobs apparently but they will no longer be such potent behind the throne influences the new liew group of presidential advisors is ip very different most blest of them thein tire are older and experienced in ili government by comparison with the brain trust they are conservative they are well informed on foreign affairs and some of them were high in ili tile the government during the world war newsmen report that the president Is graver less lesa jovial they say V providentially inspired experiments linen ts are out for the duration of the war and that a new polley policy highly encouraging to business will be quietly adopted |