Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
CONGRESS MEETS WITH
BIG PROGRAM AHEAD
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establishing Poland and defining the
Rhine frontier and the long
pending $25,000.000 Colombian pact,
are pending before the Foreign Re-
lations Committee.
Austrian Treaty Up Soon.
The Peace Treaty with Austria
also is expected to be ready for
transmission by the President soon.
The committee also has before it the
resolution of Republican Leader
Lodge proposing. that Congress, by
concurrent resolution, declare the
war with Germany ended. This will
be fought vigorously by the admin
istration. Early action on the
French treaty is not planned by the
committee majority, but the Polish
treaty. the leaders say, will be
pressed.
+ Among other important interna-
tional matters pending or in pros
pect are the House bill to repeal
the Canadian reciprocity treaty
and commercial 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 perma-
nent shipping policy. regulating
cold storage of food products, and
providing for development of water
power.
Fiscal legislation promises to
have a prominent place in the work
of Congress, General tariff revision
and modification of the interna-
tional revenue laws are planned
before the political campaign. Re-
peal of many war taxes will be pro-
posed and anti-dumping bills to
protect American manufacturers
are pending. Permanent army reor-
ganization policies, incorporating the
moot question of universal training,
soon are to be brought out by the
Senate and House military commit
tees must pass on a new building
program and on bills increasing the
navy's personnel and it's pay.
Other Measures.
Prominent among the other meas
ures to be taken up are those deal
ing with radical aliens and anarch-
lists and the high cost of living.
Leaders also plan to give attention
to means of averting industrial
strikes by federal mediation or
other methods. The Lane Mondell
bill embodying Secretary Lanes
plans of farms for soldiers and
sailors also is up for passage and
Congress will attempt revision of sew
eral standing laws and repeal or
the espionage and other war meas
ures.
Numerous Investigations also are
planned. Senate inquiries into Mex
lean affairs and the coal, wheat and
sugar situations will continue
while the House will carry nits
Investigations of War Department
activities. New investigations pro-
posed in the Senate include that
into the print paper situation and
into charges by Senator Watson, of
Indiana, that socialists and rad
icals are in the employ of the Fed
eral Trade Commission. The SEN
ate Privileges and Elections Com
mittee plans to take up the contest
filed by Henry Ford against the
election of Senator Newberry, Re-
publican, of Michigan.
Senate democrats are to hold
conference this week to elect lea
der to succeed the late Senator Mar
tin, of Virginia, with the contest
narrowed to Senator
Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska,
leader in the Peace
Treaty fight, and Senator Under
wood, of Alabama for Democratic
Leader in the House.
Conferences of the Republicans
and the steering committees of
both parties also are planned soon
to fill committee vacancies.