, 1920-06-10
WATER POWER
BILL is VETOED
TWENTY THOUSAND BILLS WE'RE
OFFERED DURING LAST SEES
SION OF CONGRESS.
AWARD WAR PENSIONS
MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES
FAIL TO PASS FINAL
SESSION..
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, June ELEVEN bills
and resolutions passed by Congress in
the closing days of its session, includ-
ing the water power measure and the
Joint resolution repeating most of the
wartime lam and proclamatiOns, were
killed by President Wilson through a
pocket veto" Fifty-eight measures,
including the merchant marine bill and
that providing for the exclusion and
expulsion of aliens from the United
| States who are members Of unarchis-
tic organizations, were approved.
The most important measures to
pass were:
The naval appropriation bill, carry
ing $436, 100000.
The army appropriation bill, carry
ing 1894, $4,000.
The sundry navy bill, carrying
S436, 100000.
The District of Columbia bill, car
rying S1S,373,O0O.
The diplomatic and consular appro-
priacion bill carrying $9,21S,537.
lbt NIilu uCLiNlSBNS piA hhb
S5S,00O,000.
The army reorganization bill.
The merchant marine bill.
The postoffice pay increase bill.
A bill providing for the exclusion
and expulsion from the United States
of aliens who are members of anar-
chistic organizations.
An act to pension soldiers and sail
ors of the Spanish-American war, the
Philippine insurrection and the hin
relief expedition.
A bill permitting government-owned
radio stations to handle private and
press messages.
An act amending the trading with
the enemy act so as to permit the res
toration of seized property to returned
enemy aliens and to residents of for
mer enemy countries now residents of
new countries set up under the peace
treaty.
An act to establish a woman's bu-
reau in the Department of Labor.
An act granting pensions and in
crease of pensions to certain sailors
and soldiers of wars other than the
| Civil War;, and widows and dependent
relatives of such persons.
An act authorizing enlistment in the
federal forces of non-speaking English
citizens and aliens.
An act regulating the immigration
of aliens and their residence in the
United States.
Important measures which failed Of
passage included:
The soldier bonus bill, which was
| passed by the House, but which was
not taken up by the Senate.
The budget bill, which President VIII
| son vetoed and which the Senate failed
to pass after the Hous had amended
it to meet the Presidents objection.
The bill to regulate and control the
meat packing industry.
The cold storage bill.
The bill to abolish the housing cor
poration.
Besides the legislation passed, Con-
| gress also sent to the President and
he approved sixteen supply measures,
| carrying a total of $2,6SS,3S5, lab. Per-
manent appropriation bills of a total
| of 1,492, 000, 900 also were passed and
approved.
During the six months of the session
lust ended, a total of approximately
| twenty thousand bills and resolutions
were introduced. The Senate approved
about 315 bills and joint resolutions,
and the House 37S bills and joint reso-
lutions. The former adopted about
230 resolutions not requiring House
action and the House adopted about
the same number not needing Senate
action.