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...reports to be favorable when he made ready, last week, to present to Congress the rivers and harbors appropriation bill. Tacked to this 40-million-dollar bill as a somewhat disproportionate rider was a provision, involving an ultimate expenditure of 600 millions, authorizing the New York project. House Leader Tilson gave Mr. Dempsey to understand that the bill would not be heard in that form. Mr. Dempsey retorted that it would be heard thus or not at all. Both visited the President, who was preserving strict neutrality in the controversy. Mr. Dempsey threatened to withhold his entire appropriations bill...
...Hotel. Dr. Work is a widower and his daughter, Mrs. A. W. Bissell, acted as hostess. His son-in-law, his two sons and two daughters-in-law were also present, also Justices Van Devanter and Stone of the Supreme Court, Senators Warren, Phipps, Ernst, Means, Goff, Congressmen Madden, Tilson, Taylor, Hardy, Governor Parks of Alaska, Will H. Hays, Frank W. Steamsmany of them with their ladies? and enough others to make it the largest dinner given to the President this season by a member of the Cabinet...
...House, the Republican leader, Mr. Tilson, announced that he would leave the fate of the measure to the Steering Committee. Although there is apparently much opposition, Representative White of Kansas reported to the House a similar resolution on the day that the Senate passed that offered by Senator Norris. The White resolution differs from that of the Senate principally in fixing Jan. 4 for the assembling of Congress, and Jan. 24 for the inauguration of the President...
...last time Mr. and Mrs. Longworth were guests of honor at the White House was on Feb. 17, 1906, when they were married. The other guests at the dinner included Senator and Mrs. Joseph T. Robinson, Senator and Mrs. Wadsworth, the Republican and Democratic leaders in the House (Messrs. Tilson and Garrett) and their wives, Mr. Alexander P. Moore (onetime Ambassador to Spain), James A. Drain (onetime Commander of the American Legion) and Mrs. Drain, two former ex-Secretaries to the President (C. Bascom Slemp and George B. Christian) and Mrs. Christian, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Dr. and Mrs. Jason...
Future Developments. Congressman John Q. Tilson of Connecticut last week began to plan for putting this non-partisan bill through the House with Democratic cooperation. Unless the Democrats change front, he believes that the bill can be considered and passed by the House between the 14th and 23rd of December, so that it can go to the Senate immediately after the holiday recess, leaving that body a good two months to pass it and yet make it effective before the March 15 payment of income taxes...