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seth CONGRESS ENDS
ENDS End SESSION
Senate Does Not Act on Budget Bill.
Which Measure Ia Now Dead

Senate Does Not Act on Budget Bill.
Which Measure Ia Now Dead
Washington. June e.-The Sixty-sixth
Congress ended its second session yester-
day. adjourning sine die at 400 p. m.
Unless a grave emergency arises which
makes necessary a special session. it will
not meet again until December 6.
The close of the session was marked
by none of the hectic rush that gen.
orally attends a getaway Congress. but
there was the usual applauding and
cheering in the House chamber after
Speaker Gilletts gavel had released the
members Tor the first long vacation. Con-
gress has had since the United States
entered the war.
The House cleaned up its work early
in the day and twice recessed to await
possible Senate action on pending meas
ures. The Senate remained in continuous
session. and as the result of a small
sized filibuster there the bill to estab-
fish national budget system failed of
passage.
Final sessions Of both houses passed
without the plethora of political speeches
which had been expected by many, since
Congress was quitting on the eve OF the
national political convention. Just at the
finish in the House. Representative
Mondell of Wyoming. the Republican
leader, delivered an address praising Con-
gress for the work accomplished at this
session. Representative Garrett. Demo-
crat, Tennessee. replied, declaring that
this Congress had been a 'humiliatins
failure"
POMERENE RESOLUTION ADOPTED
The nearest thing to a political speech
in the Senate was an attack by Senator
Pomerene, Democrat, of Ohio. on the
contingenut expense committee for de-
lay in reporting his resolution proposing
an investigation by the elections COM
mittee into expenditures in the forth
coming presidential and congressional
campaign He declared that neither the
Republicans nor the Democrats dared to
saw to the people that it was none OF
their business where campaign funos
came from or how the ywere expended
The resolution was adopted without
record vote.
The session Of Congress which ended
Yesterday began on December !. lmpor-
tant legislation enacted during that time
included
The Army Reorganization bill. prov1d-
ing for a peace time army OF @."o om-
GERS and men. a National Guard and a
reserve force.
The Transportation act. designed to
assist the railroads over the period I'M
mediately following their return to pri-
waite control last March /.
The Oil Leasing bill. by which thou
sands of acres Of oil and mineral lands
in the West and South were thrown open
to development.
The Merchant Marine bill. providing
for the ultimate sale of the vast Govern
ment-owned merchant fleet.
The Sterling Anti-Sedition act and the
johnson bill providing for the deporta-
ton and exclusion Of dangerous aliens.
The Edge bill, authorizing the forma-
tion Of corporations to finance American
export trade.
The Civil Service Retirement bill.
The Postal Pay Increase bill.
Important measures which failed of pas
sage included
The Soldier Bonus bill. which was pass
ed by the House last Saturday night.
but was not taken up by the Senate.
The Budget bill. which President Will
son vetoed and which tbe Senate failed
to pass after the House 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.
The annual rivers and harbors supply
measure, which was left in conference
Congress finally passed the water power
BILL which had been pending for twelve
years. but it was killed automatically
with the adjournment of Congress
through failure OF the President to sign
II.
Besides the legislation passed Congress
also sent 10 the President and he APP
proved sixteen supply measures. carry
ing a total Of 2,68, 3s5,l+3. Permanent
appropriation bills OF total of sl.492,
0OO. 600 also were passed and approved.
10000 BILLS INTRODUCED
During the six months of the session
lust ended, a total Of approximately D,-
90 bills and resolutions were introduced.
he Senate approved about 3l5 bills and
Joint resolutions and the House 37S bills
and Joint resolutions. The former adopted
about go resolutions not requiring House
action. and the House adopted about the
same number not needing Senate action.
Much of the session was occupied by
another unsuccessful effort to agree on
A PEACE settlement which would end
the technical state of war. The treaty
of Versailles. laid aside at the close
of the first session in November. was
brought back before the Senate early in
February and a final vote on its ratifica-
ton was reached on March 10. after all
efforts to bring about compromise had
failed.
AS an alternative both Senate and
House later passed joint resolution
formally declaring a state Of peace, but
Il was vetoed by the President. and when
Republican leaders sought to repass II
tho House failed to muster the necessary
two-thirds majority.
Besides this measure and the budget
hill. the President vetoed three other
measures during tho session. and none
wa. passed over his Veto They were
the legislative, executive and judicial bill,
the measure to prohibit interstate ship
ment of obscene motion pictures dds
auproved because an engrossing clerk
made an error in transcribing ~, and
biil to pay claims of certain persons nj
Alabama growing out OF hood on the
Warrior river.