Evening star., 1920-12-07
$50 NEW MEASURES BEFORE
CONGRESS AS SESSION OPENS
House Bills and Resolutions Deal With
Every Conceivable Object and Ask
Millions for Many Purposes.

More than $50 new bills and resolu
tions were introduced in the House yes
terday on the opening of the short
session. The rules committee today
started work on the schedule of pre-
ferred" legislation by taking up the
bill reported out yesterday by the
House immigration committee which
practically prohibits all immigration for
two years
almost every conceivable subject, In
cluding proposals for repeal of wal
laws, for appropriations Of millions
of dollars for a myriad of purposes
pensions and many measures for farm
ers' relief.
Committees of both Senate and
House are to begin work Immediately
| endars from preceding sessions and
on the new grist. Calls for numerous
| committee meetings this week were
issued by chairmen today, but leaders
said that the regular appropriation
bills would have the right Of way
all Of the appropriation, bills before
March 4, but that considerable othe,
leRisla ation would be squeezed in" II
also was said that there probably
would be q short holiday recess about
December % over New Year day and
| that tho principal work Of the ses.
| sion would come after the holidays.
VIII Resune Inquiries.
Arrangements also were made fol
resumption of numerous congressional
| Investigations suspended part OF
wholly during the recent session.
Among early committee meetings
called was session OF the Senate for
leign relations committee, for tomor-
Canada dealing with military desert
ers. and other unfinished business. II
was indicated that no treaties, ex-
cept the Colombian treaty now on the
Senate calendar, would receive early
consideration.
OF the mass Of new bills and reso-
lutions introduced in the House only
of them and thousands from preced-
| ing sessions, will die unless enacted
before March 1.
Bills Affecting Membership.
A measure proposing to increase the
House OF Representatives membership
from 455 to 483 as = result Of the 1926
| census and another to limit the size tt
| $50 members were introduced today ir
the House. but with little prospect Of
l ACStVu OIl luSIu Al tulS 6c06lCn.
The proposal to add forty eight mem.
bers to the House was offered by Chair.
| man Siegel Of the House census com.
| mittee. while the other, resolution
proposing q constitutional amendment
to limit the total representation. was Of
fered by Representative Hull, democrat
| Of Tennessee.
! Representative Fish Of New York. i'm
mediately on being sworn in as a new
| member, requested In a resolution tina
the War. Department be instructed t,
bring to the United States the body o
| an unknown American soldier. He pro
posed that It Be intefned in . court o
honor to be erected in the nationa
cemetery at Arlington, Va.
The selection and care of the bod,
would be placed upon the War Depart
ment and would be made with the ut
most tmpartiahty.
Representative King Of Illinois Of
fered resolution authorising Presi
dent Wilson to call q constitutions
convention Of duly elected member
In the Philippine Islands for the pur
pose OF framing constitution. Til
Convention would be called one yea
1 after tho passage Of the resolution
and a. soon as the constitutions wa.