Arizona republican., 1919-07-02
CONGRESS ENDS
 WORK -ADJOURNS FUR 0NE WEEK
Four Appropriation Bills Are Passed After Stormy Session - Will Consider Liquor Enforcement Bill Upon Reconvening

WASHINGTON, July 1.-Congress adjourned at midnight until Tuesday, July s, after enacting all appropriation bills needed by government agencies for the new fiscal year.
 | Success crowned the efforts of re- publican leaders to complete the neces- sary appropriation measures, but only after hours of delay which at times almost threatened to block their plans.
 The final bill, the army measure, carrying SITS, 100000; the sundry civil bill, carrying $so5, 5,oOo, 900; the District of Columbias annual budget of s15, ,000. 900, and deficiency measure of $25,- coo, 900 were all completed tonight and tomorrow will be sent to the White House. President Wilson will be un- able to approve the bills until ne re- turns, but by special arrangement the funds will be made available fo: immediate use, it is antic'r ated.
 With enactment of the final biIs to-
 night, including measures passed at the
 last session of congress, more than
 5000, 100000 has been appropriated
 for federal needs during the new year
 which began today. Congress also has
 cancelled more than $15,000,000 of war
 appropriations previously authorized
 The recess of congress was accom-
 plished after many delays today with
 controversies centered upon sundry
 civil and army measures. The recess
 gives congress a rest over Fourth oi
 July holiday, and when it returns il
 is expected that President Wilson will
 submit the treaty negotiated with Ger
 many
 To Take Up Beer Question
 Legislation for more strict enforce
 ment of wartime prohibition also is
 to be taken up immediately upon re- = converting.
 The vote in the house in favor o the recess was 133 to S9, while only hal a dozen senators were in their seat: 3 when the session ended in the upper , branch.
 : The army bill as adopted represent.
 decrease of s114000000 from tht amount carried in the senate bill, anc l. provides for maintenance of an average army of S25,000 men during the fisca | year which began today. The confer ence report was approved in the senat ! without a record vote, and Senate Il Smith, democrat, of Georgia, criticized 2 the reduction in the army and tn 5 amendment inserted stopping con 5 struction work on Camps Bennings ' Georgia, and Bragg, North Carolina. The house. in accepting the confer . ence report on the sundry civil bil . approved the senate increase of appro
 priations for the United States em ' ployment service from s200,000, tn u house total, to s4o0,000, which wa ,. voted by the senate.
 7. MT. Mondell, in statement inserte , in the Congressional Record just be 4 fore adjournment, declared:
 Big Sum Saved n There had been a saving of approx 70 imately sS00,o00,000 in the six grea
 supply bills which were passed in tn
 special session of the Sixty sixth con
 gress as compared with the amount U carried by the same bills which faile
 in the closing hours fthe Sixty-fift It congress, and a saving of s450,000, ,0( It on the railroad deficiency bill as com l. pared with the estimate of the railroa r. administration, or a total reduction ( re S1. .250 ,000 000"
 lp MT. Mondell said the principal savin le ether than the reduction in the railroa m fund request were s343,000,000 in tf IS army appropriation bill, s211,o0o.o00 r. the naval bill, and $24zoo0,ee0 in u
 lsundry civil appropriation biIl