Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — CONGRESSMEN RUSH BACK [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSMEN RUSH BACK

All Expected to Be Ready for Session at Washington April 2. Washington, March 23. —Congress is speeding back to Washington from every quarter of the country. From all parts of the country there was a steady stream of telegrams to the capital reporting that members will be present. Speaker Champ Clark and Democratic Leader Claud Kitchin arrived in Washington today. Republican Leader Mann with Representative McKinley of and other members of the house are the objects of a frantic search by wireless. They are cruising “somewhere in the Carribean” — and » hurry call has been sent out from the Republican camp to bring the comma ritlers back to the colors. Meanwhile partisan advantage in the organization of the next house is not cutting the important figure it did before the international crisis became so acute. The Republicans have not lost hope of organizing the house, but neither, for that matter, have the Democrats. The two parties are equally balanced In the house with 214 members each, five Independent memiters, whose ultimate parry affiliation no one is willing to guess.