The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-02
MANY IMPORTANT
 BILLS TO COME
 BEFORE CONGRESS
Present Session Will Be Ex- ceedinJly Busy Time for
 Representatives.

" StSIl4 llS ton, Lee. E.---MdnV month work on a great variety Of important subjects, international and domestic. Were before the 66th Congress today when 1t met for it's second and ''regu- lar sesslpu, q. hicu was expected to close only with the presidential cam paign next fall.
 Members of both Senate and House returned to work with only ten days rest since the adjournment of the ex- jraoICinary session which ended Nov. ly when the Peace Treaty failed of ratification in the Senate. Because of the eNUra session the opening day lacked much of the usual hustle at ending the launching of a new ses- sion.
 With he Congress already in har- ness" and with much legislation ready for immediate consideration, little delay in the beginning of work Was expected. Calling Of Senate and House rolls for quoruns, appointment of committees to notify the Pres: dent and each other that Congress again was "on the job" were among the customary opening formalities.
 Besides legislative recommends tons. President Wilson's message was y,c1 ID Goat t. ;nternat onaI re lattons and particularly with the Treaty of Versailles While early ratification of the treaty with com promise reservations was expected by many senators, with hopes of action before the new year, leaders believed the issues involved would be carried into the pres. dential campaign.
 Politics is due to play a large part in the events Of the new session, the last before the nominating conven- : tons and work through afterward into October.
 Enactment of legislation is expected to begin inr.c Stately The Senate to- day had pending, with privileged status the Cumnins railroad bill with it's provisions against strikes and for return of the railroads to private ownership In the House the bill to restrict immigration and provide for deportation of alien radicals was first on the calendar. The House probably will be occupied largely with the appropriation bills for many weeks and leaders hope to enact sev- eral measures before the holiday ad- journment, to begin about Dec. 2G and continue to Jan. 5.
 Long debate on the railroad bill in the Senate was anticipated and leau CTS had little hopes of it's enactmen. before Jan. 1, the date on which the President has said the roads would be returned to private operation. 4 temporary resolution continuing gual anteed compensation for the carrier mil permanent legislation is com p,eted will be passed if neces- sary.
 Among the measures expected to be completed tn 5 month are the oil coal gas and phosphate land lea ing bill and the Edge measure ! authorizing formation of corporations to finance American export trade. Both bills are now in conference. Besides the treaty of Versailles, several other treaties are pending and promise to evoke long Senate de bate. Three treaties one guarantee ing assistance to France in event of German aggression, that esta abIishing Poland and defining the Rhine from tier and the long-pending $25,t 1000 Colombian pact, are pending before the Foreign Relations Committee.
 The Peace Treaty with Austria also is expected to be ready for trans niss:on 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 administra- ' | treaty is not planned by the com na-ttee majority, but the Polish treaty, the leaders say, will be press ed
 i Among other important interna- l tiOnal matters pending or in pros . pect are the House bill to repeal the ! Canadian reciprocity treaty and com ; mercial conventions and trade ex- tension arrangements with the Allies. | the enemy countries and other na- 1 tions.
 i On the legislative calendar are ] many measures already passed either by Senate or House. They include bills establishing a federal budget sys- tenn, providing a permanent shipping 1 policy, regulating cold storage of food products, and providing for de- i Velopment of waterpower.
 Fiscal legislation promises to have prominent place in the work Of Congress. General tariff revision l and modification of the interna tional revenue laws are planned before the political campaign. Repeal of many war taxes will be prosposed and anti dumping bills to protect American i manufacturers are pending. Per manent army reorganization policies, Incorporating the moot question of universas training, soon are to be brought out by the Senate and House military committees, while the com mittees must pass on a new building g ! program and on bills increasing the navy's personnel and it's pay.
 Prominent among the other meas ures to be taken up ara those dealing ! with radical aliens and anarchists and the high cost of living. Leaders also plan to give attention to means of averting industrial strikes by fed eraI mediation brother methods The Lane-Mondeu bill embodying Secretary Lanes plan of farms for soldiers and sailors also Is up for passage and Congress will attempt re- vision of several standing laws and repeal of the espionage and other war measures.
 Numerous investigations also are 1 planned. Senate inquiries into MeM- can affairs and the coal, wheat and 1 sugar situations will continue while the House will carry on its investi- gatons of War Department activities. New Investigations proposed in the Senate include that into the print pa per situation and into charges by Senator Watson, of Indiana, that so- cialists and radicals are in the employ