Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — Barnhart Opposed to Extra Session. [ARTICLE]

Barnhart Opposed to Extra Session.

Washington, Feb. 9. —There is a near-revolt in the House of Representatives over the prospect that the president will call congress in extra session to pass the ship purchase bill. The language that is being used aLiout the democratic cloakroom is very expressive. Not many democratic members have the courage to make known to the white house their opposition to an extra session. One who has the requisite nerve, however, in Representative Barnhart of Indiana! Yesterday Barnhart called on Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, the president’s son-in-law, to state that he thought an extra session would be very ill-advised and would react to the great damage of the democratic party. He found McAdoo just as strongly set the other way. McAdoo can use language with the bark on it, too, and altogether the conference was highly interesting. .Mr. Barnhart said he* intends to lay liis views before Secretary Tumulty in a day or two. “The very thing the country doer; not want is an extra session of congress,” said Mr. Barnhart. Representative William E. Cox of Indiana, a short time ago, sent 15,000 letters into his district asking his constituents for their views, among other things, of an extra session of congress. He is receiving hundreds of replies on nearly every mail. The letters he received from bis district numbered about 700. “The sentiment is unanimous against an extra session of congress,” he said.