Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1916 — CONGRESS IS NOT TO ADJOURN YET [ARTICLE]

CONGRESS IS NOT TO ADJOURN YET

Session Will Continue as Many Important Bills Are Yet to Be Passed.

Democrats in congress are uniting their forces to compel early action on the army and navy appropriation hills, the revenue measure and the government shipping bill, which are the most important legislative measures remaining on the administration program. The national defense- appropriations whose totals as they have passed the house have been vastly increased by senate committees are certain to leet stubborn resistance in conference. It is also certain that the shipping bill will encounter persistent republican opposition in the senate. These prospects have upset all adjournment predictions and administration leaders are resigned to the prospect of remaining in Washington if necessary until fall, despite 4 heir eagerness to participate in the national political campaign. When senate democrats in caucus determined to press the shipping bill and amend it in order to satisfy members of their own party who had been in revolt, they served notice on the republicans that their challenge of a filibuster had been accepted. Now that there are assurances of enough votes to pass the bill without republican help, the republican throat of a filibuster is not taken so seriously by democratic leaders. They pred’-t a vigorous fight against the bill, but believe that republican senators will be anxious to get away when they realize the ultimate passage of the measure cannot be prevented. The senate will begin work on the navy bill this week as soon as the agricultural appropriation bill is passed. The administration’s revenue bill, designed to produce $197,000,000 next year from the increased sur-tax on income and taxes on inheritance and on profits of war munitions plants to be passed by the house.