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Show LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM IN CONGRESS IS LIKELY TO BE VERY RRIEF ONE. Prominent democrats like Speaker Champ Clark and Congressman Fitzgerald of New York express the opinion that there should be no attempt at-tempt on the part of the administration to impose im-pose an ambitious legislative program on the short session of congress which meets this coming com-ing week. They think that the appropriation bills will take so much time thnt it will be idle to try to force much other business to the front. This opinion has especial force in view of the difficulty which the mnjority experienced Inst summer in passing the supply measures. Several Sev-eral of the great appropriation bills remained In committee until after the end of the fiscal year, and the executive departments were carried on by means of "continuing resolutions," whereby the appropriations of the preceding year were extended, pro rata, for n month or so at a time until the regular annual appropriations could be made. Tl'.iS time there will be only three months Withe Wi-the work which took more than six months last year, and there Is nothing to indicate that congress con-gress will be more expeditious now than them The appropriation bills must be passed, because the new congress is norcxpectcd to be summoned summon-ed before its regular time of sitting in December of ncr.r year. These views have been made public by ClarK and Fitzgerald In newspaper interviews and they have been Imparted privately to President Wilson. Wil-son. The latter, however, is keeping hiB own counsel, as usual, and until his message is made public no one, probably, will know what he plans to have congress do between now and the 4th or next March. |