Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-07
Senator Harding Takes His
Seat, Answers to His
Name When Roll Is Call
ed, Makes a Brief Speech.
BUSINESS TO BEGIN
IN EARNEST TODAY
After Receiving President
Wilson's Opening Mes
sage, Both Houses Will
Get Down to Actual Work


Washington, Dec. 6. --
Congress reconvened today
with the customary brief
and routine opening sessions,
which were attended by
great crowds and marked by
an address, in the senate, by
President-elect Harding as a
unique and historic feature.
Senator Harding took his
seat, answered his name
when the senate roll was
called, and made a brief ad-
dress from the rostrum.
Other features of the
opening of the third and
final session of the sixty
sixth congress were receipt
of annual appropriation es-
Inmates aggregating $4,653,-
100000, and introduction in
the house of an unusual vol
ume of new bills and reso-
lutions. Senators held up
their bills until tomorrow in
accordance with the custom
of the first day to formal
convocation.
Wilson Is Notified.
The principal business today was
to arrange for receipt tomorrow of
President Wilson's opening mes
sage. a joint committee called up
on the president at the White
House and the latter receiving
them in .he blue room. told them
he would have "a communication"
tomorrow. lie did not state
whether he would send or read his
message, but it was understood
that the former course would be
pursued.
The senate was in session 25
minutes and the house, notwith-
standing its longer roll call. only
twice as long.
New members elected last No
vember to fill vacancies were sworn
in and adjournment taken until to-
morrow, when both bodies plan,
after receiving the presidents mes
sage, to proceed to work.
Senate Was Calm.
AS usual the senate session pro-
ceeded with dignified calm and the
house with boisterous confusion.
The latter's roll call was taken
amid bedlam of fluctuations of
returning members and conversa-
tion of members and spectators.
Galleries of both houses were
jammed and thousands of persons
stood in the halls to catch glimpses
and sounds of the proceedings
within. About the capitol confer
ences of party leaders, dinner
parties and surging crowds in the
corridors furnished other opening
session atmosphere.
The program for tomorrow's in
auguration of actual work called
for debate in the senate on the bill
for federal regulation of the meat
industry and for the launching of
immigration restriction legislation
in the house The house immigra-
tion committee bill prohibiting i'm
migration for two years was re-
ported out today and the rules
committee tomorrow will consider
a rule for it's immediate considera-
ton, under Limitation of debate.
Many Bills in Hopper.
More than $50 bills and resolu-
tions were dropped into the house
hopper today and flood of similar
proportions is expected tomorrow
In the senate. In the new house
dealt with almost every
subject, including pro-
posals for repeal of war laws, for
of millions of dol
lars for a myriad OF purposes, PEN
sions and many measures for farm
ers' relief.
Committees of both senate and
house are to begin work immedi-
ately on the measures left on their
from preceding sessions
and on the new grist. Calls for
numerous committee meetings this
week were issued by chairmen to-
day, but leaders said that the reg
ular appropriation bills would have
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