The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-13
MUCH WORK FOR coNREsS

MUCH WOrh OH great variety or subjects, international and domestic, is before the Sixty-sixth congress. the events of the session, the last be- fore the nominating conventions of next summer and the final campaign in the fall. Leaders propose to have congress recess for the conventions and to work through afterward into October
 Among the measures expected to be completed soon are oil, coal, gas and phosphate land leasing bill and the Edge measure, authorizing the forma- tion of corporations to finance Ameri- can export trade. Both bills are now in conference.
 Besides the treaty of Versailles, sev- eral other treaties are pending and Three treaties, the one guaranteeing assistance to France in the event of German aggression; that establishing Poland and defining the Rhine from tier, and the long-pending $25,OOO,OOO Colombian pact, are pending before the foreign relations committee.
 The peace treaty with Austria also is expected to be ready for transmits sion by the President soon. The com mittee also has before it the resolu- tion of Republican Leader Lodge, pro- posing that congress, by concurrent resolution, declare the war with Ger many ended. This will be fought wig orously by the administration. Early planned by the committee majority, but the Polish treaty, the leaders say, will be pressed.
 Among other important interna- tional matters pending or in prospect are the house bill to repeal the Cana dian reciprocity treaty and commer- cial conventions and trade extension arrangements with the allies, the 
 enemy countries and other nations.
 On the legislative calendar are many measures already passed either by senate or house. They include bills establishing a federal budget system, providing a permanent shipping pol icy, regulating cold storage of food products, and providing for develop ment of water power.
 Fiscal legislation promises to have a nrominent place in the work of con- gress. General tariff revision ana modification of the internal revenue laws are planned before the political campaign. Repeal of many war taxes will be proposed, and anti-dumplng bills to protect American manufac- turers are pending. Permanent army reorganization policies, incorporating the moot question of universal traln- ing. soon are to be brought out by the senate and house military commit tees. while the committees must pass on a new building program and on bills increasing the navy's personnel and it's pay.
 Prominent among the other meas ures to be taken up are those dealing with radical aliens and anarchists and the high cost of living. Leaders also plan to- give attention to means of ayerting industrial strikes by. federal mediation or other methods. The Lane-Mondell bill, embodylng Secre- tary Lanes plan of farms for soldiers and sailors, also is up for passage, ana congress will attempt the revision o1 several standing laws and repeal or the espionage and other war meas ures.
 Numerous investigations also are planned. Senate inquiries into Mexl' cap affairs. and the coal, wheat ana sugar situations will continue, while the house will carry on it's invest1ga- tions of war department activites' New investigations proposed Ill the senate include that into the prlht naner situation and into charges py Senator Watson of Indiana that 30 cialists and radicals are in the employ of the Federal Trade Commission. The senate privileges and elections com