Word: adjournment
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...Congressmen of both Houses want to adjourn comparatively soon. All of the Representatives and more than one-third of the Senators are face to face with a Sphinxlike ballot box. There is a public buildings bill, a bill for increasing the pay of Federal judges, a bill for disposing of Muscle Shoals, bills for future handling of railroad and coal strikes, the French debt settlement, and above all farm relief?all clamoring for consideration. A first-rate legislative jam seems in the making, with the probability that many of these measures will not pass. And although Congressmen are eager...
...Prospect. If the House impeaches Judge English, Congress will probably be detained from three to six weeks after its other business is completed. Perhaps Congress may adjourn as expected in May and the President may call a special session of the Senate to try the case. In any event it would keep numbers of Senators in Washington when they would ardently wish to go home to mend their fences before elections next fall. Incidentally it would afford columnists endless material for jokes about "Vienna bred" and "English as he is impeached...
...Significance. If the resolution is passed with the Senate amendments, the most important of these is likely to be the one for a report by April 26. Congress is eager to get home and plans to adjourn in May. The debate over a definite lease seems bound to be long and bitter. So it seems likely that a definite lease of Muscle Shoals will be killed so far as this session of Congress is concerned by lack of time, unless Congress stays in Washington much later than it wishes to stay. The effect of the other Senate amendments, by possibly...
Chairman Alvan Markle of the joint conference brought out a U. S. flag and waved it, counseling both sides to make peace for the sake of the country. Instead they voted to adjourn the negotiations subject to call by Mr. Markle or by either side...
...provided they could get arbitration for the future. But the miners answered it flatly: "No arbitration!" Each side tried to present its plan in such a guise that the other would accept it. Each time the other side refused to be "fooled." Finally one of the operators moved to adjourn sine die, subject to call. The miners refused to second the motion. So one of the operators seconded it. Then both miners and operators voted to adjourn...