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Show THREE URGENT WlnTTERS BEFORE IRIS CONGRESS i There Are Budget Bill. Immi gration and Relief for Farmer. Farm-er. Sullivan Says SENATE NOT EXCITED OVER ALIEN INFLUX; But There Is wVidesDread Sen timent for Shutting Gates. Writer Asserts Bj MARK SI i f l N I WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec 18 The ireseni session of congress has now gone far enough to make possible I to survey It as a whole and see what Is about to come out. There Is. firs;, of all. the appreciation bills', the pa?s-ag- of theso Is the main business of I the session. Probably most of thorn. I will be passed, but uuyone who has I folio wed previous sessions of cohgreRx. will not be surprised if at the end "of the session some of them have not! been passed, and left over for action! b) the special session that Senator. Harding win call Immediately after hej has become president. Rl PE 1 1 . Ml. Wi Rl s In addition, it Is certain thai a number of wart'mo measures will bel repealed, the repeal of a Ion usualb lnvoles less trouble then the pasasge of a new one and this is cspecia ' true of wartime legislature. I ther t"t.an this, it laapparent that there are three measures that have the greatest great-est chance of success In the present session. "ne is the budget bill, 'most Important, which goes under ;i rather colorless name, is one ol the mostl mportant bills that has emerged fni congress within recent years. In fnet, It Is not an exaggeration t" say , that within tho field of good management manage-ment of the government. tii- budget i bin Is exceeded In importance by only one law pars-d since the civil war; namely, the federal roscrvo act In the present session of congress the weight of leadership In favor ol the prompt passage of the bill has been overwhelmingly and easily rec-Ogcized rec-Ogcized and ii was one of the comparatively compara-tively few things alluded to by President Presi-dent Wilson In his message I BO ED ITS P vss u.i. President W ilson said that the bill had ben amended to meet bin con.ti- Itutlonal objection and urged that 1 j be passed In its amended form. Mihough President-elect Hardlnj gave his endorsement to a large nuni' tier f niMMin s he r fused to put him I self on record in favor of any excepi j the budge; bill. He took the grount that he ought not to attempt to influ- hce he prew at ssion of pong res but WSJ willing to make an exception Jas regards the budget bill urging that I It be passed. , With the weight of this leadership I in both parties, it may be assured that jthe budget bill will be In operation Within a reasonable time. This s one of the most satisfying things possible f to record in the field of recent legislation. legis-lation. It would be bard to be extravagant extrav-agant In describing the Influence and I importance of i his measure- TWu OTID R vi bji ere Two other subjects have engaged the attention of congress to such a degree that it is reasonably certain tht some action will be taken on them, one is Immigration. The overwhelming sentiment senti-ment in the lower house of congress at least, Is In favor of decrease restriction restric-tion of immigration. The members of the house hav been warned by a score or signs that America seems to be faced with tin Influx In-flux of immigration which both as regards re-gards quantity and quality Involves a menace. Evidence has piled up on evidence of this fact, it has come from individual members of congress who have personally studied the situation situ-ation at Its sources from a New York; grand Jury. which pointed out tho menace Involved in the mass of immigrants immi-grants and from other sources, notably nota-bly from newspaper nfen and others' now in Europe, who have written let ters describing the character of the immigration that is now setting out1 for Amerl..i rwl ,1 . I, i r i lM" mcKcrv anu i.rraud that are practiced to get pass-'p"ris pass-'p"ris and other undesirable remills-Jthe remills-Jthe exodus Just preparing to bvive Ku-rope. Ku-rope. That congress has been impressed impress-ed by these signs clear. Th.- s,.,uit,. I seems .sounwhat less rfsponslve than the house, but the senate also feels I the necessity 0( immigration n I strlctlop, OSWJ5 OTHEK fcl lUT . i I I he one otlie.- I), ,, i.( v much to the fore In the minds of managers man-agers of congress M financial relief for farmers and others who are em-birrassed em-birrassed by fulling prices n tins point there is a .-hup , onflict b.-twe. n (congress on the on.- hand and the (treasury depaitm. When the fall of prices began lute in the summer, delegations of farmers, eaders of farm organizations, and po- lltlclans representing the farmers op peared before the secretary of the treasury and asked for some form of relief that would enable them to get credit which was necessary to carry their goods until proper time when they might be able to gsjt better prloi i Tho secretary of he treasury look Uie ground that he could do nothing under i be law as It now stands, and further took the ground that it was undesirable undesir-able to do ;inj thing I wi CONTROI imcKfl Ho said hat the cause of the decline In prices wis a facto, bayond the control con-trol of the treasury und beyond the t ontinucd on Page Two.) I i Three Urgent Matters Before This Congress (Continued From Pegs t) s control of any one else. I ie &aid that' " the chief cause of the decline in prices j was the cessation of huge buying by governments at war on - oi any, prices the sellers might ask, the resumption re-sumption of a certain amount of Industry In-dustry In Europe which i impetet with American goods, and the resumption of shipping which had been Inti pi ed during the wai and I'hich now brings goods from Australia and Argen-tina Argen-tina into the market in competition with American goods. The se retoryj 1 of treasury took the position that these are the causes of the decline ol price and nothing that the treasurj can do will overcome those causes. FARMERS BITT1 R The farmers suffered s bitter d ip-pointment ip-pointment in this refusal of th treasury, trea-sury, and undoubtedly a certain nur.s- . 1 her of votes received by-the K psshl!-y psshl!-y cans In the recent i let tlon were the re-' L suit of dissatisfaction of the Democratic Democra-tic congress. For the reasons just outlined, the J farmers transferred their plea fri tn , the treasury to congress- Congress as an elect body was much more sympathetic. In both I and the senate bills wen torn illy Introduced In-troduced looking, in one waj or another an-other to getting treasury relief for J farmers, who must either sell heir jfoods at pn-sent price.s or fll d credll with which to hold them. Thereupon,' the Issue that formerly bud .-risen between be-tween the farmers and the treasury now arose between congn b and the! treasury MAY FINU R 1 11 l In this Issue any one who ha oh-1 served events Is Inclined to sympathise with the treasury, regardless ol whether wheth-er or not the treasury is right GoV-ernor GoV-ernor Harding and' officers of the federal fed-eral reserve board h ive attacks d ide of , the argument in an effort to make a strong plea to members of boi rress who have given the Impression Impres-sion of a mere clamoring for something some-thing which they believe "will help Ibeni with their constituent The ofi-ccrs ofi-ccrs Of the government, on the other hand, give their impression of standing , squarely on principle, it Is possible ibnt within the near future, hpwever, j some way will be round to give ionic , degree of help to the farms s J The farmer, of course, is ;;i this mum i.i in an embarrassing position. H has the crop on h.- handt This j crop was raised on the basis of conell-l conell-l turns nt the time the iinp wapimtod. with wug , fertiliser, t ed unit linple-j linple-j inents at the prices ,: -. . ', ijMy wen ri lust spring. Bu; when It cornea to sell-' sell-' ng the crop, the farmei i is: part j with It on the basis of presunl prices lbs- involves a real loss. Sevi rtheleu j tbfc; farmer should try to balance this episode aagtnst the time, four or five' years ago when conditions were N.u't-l N.u't-l reversed. Then he did his planting' and cultivating on the basis of low prle.-s and was able to sell his crop on the basis of high prices but the most serious part Of the farmers dls-tn dls-tn ss arises, not In his crops, but In his mortx LOW PRICES 1 N E Muring the post four years prices; upon lands advanced from jou to oo per cent. After making a special payment, pay-ment, fanners often give a mortgage for as much as J100 to $2o ltn acre.. The farmer was carrying a mortgage at the rate of i200 an acre, must in order to pay the Interest raise a value of 12 on each acre before he has anything for himself. Under present conditions, which are likely to continue, it la dil'flcult anil1 even Impossible for the farmer to do this, -indeed, once he has allowed him-; self to get Into this position it is difficult dif-ficult for him to avoid foreclosure; there in this situation nil the elements to recreate such a situation as brought! Bryan to the front 2.', years ago. |