Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-07
money MEASURES
TO HOLD ATTENTION
IOF LOWER BRANCH
First Days Business Given
Over to Reception of
Wilson's Message.
UPPER HOUSE HOLDS FORTH
FOR TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES
Galleries of Both Bodies Are
Filled With Spectators to
Glimpse Proceedings.
$50 BILLS ARE INTRODUCED
| Myriads Of Proposed Laws Fall in
! House Hopper, Asking Money
/ for Various Purposes.
UPPER HOUSE HOLDS FORTH
FOR TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES
$50 BILLS ARE INTRODUCED
Myriads OF Proposed Laws Fall in
House Hopper, Asking Money
for Various Purposes.
IBy Associated Press.l

w->SHlNGTON. Dec 6.-Congress
rcconvened today with the Gus
tomary brief and routine opening
sessions. which We're attended by
great crowds and marked by an ad-
dress in the Senate by President
Elect Harding. rs unique and his
toric feature. Senator Harding took
his seat. answered his name when
the Senate roll was called and made
brief address from the rostrum.
Other features OF the opening OF
the third and final session of the
SiNty-SiNth Congress were receipt OF
annual appropriation estimates ag-
grcgatinE s4.G53.000.0 600, and intro
duction in the House of an unusual
volume OF new bills and resolutions.
Senator's held up their bills until to-
morrow In accordance with the GUS
tom of limiting the first day to for
NAL conversation. A1.-y
Tho principal business of today's
sessions was to arrange for receipt
| tomorrow of President Wilson'S
opening message. y joint committee
called upon. the President Mt the
White House. and the latter, receiv-
ing them in the blue room. told them
he would have "a communication"
tomorrow. He did not state whether
he would send or read his message.
but 1t was understood the former
course would be pursued.
Scuntc In Session ~ Minutes.
The Senate was in session twenty
five minutes, and the House. notwith-
standing it's longer roll call. only
twice as long. New members elected
last November to fill vacancies We're
sworn in and adjournment taken un-
til noon tomorrow. when both bodies
plan, after receiving the Presidents
message, to proceed TO work.
AS usual the Senate session pro-
cecded with disnified calm and the
House with boisterous confusion. The
iatter's roll call was taken amid
bedlam of Fluctuations Of returning
members and conversation OF mem
bcrs and spectators.
Galleries OF both bodies were
jammed and thousands OF persons
stood in the halls to catch glimpses
and sounds of the proceedings with
in. About the Capitol, conferences
of party leaders. cafe dinner parties
and surging crowds in the corridors
furnished other opening session at
mosphere.
The program for tomorrow's inau-
Suration OF actual work called for
debate in the Senate on the bill for
Federal regulation of the meat in
dustry. and for the launching OF i'm
migration restriction legislation in
the House. The House Immigration
Committee bill prohibiting immigra-
tion Tor two years. was reported out
today. and the Rules committee to-
morrow will consider n rule for its
immediate consideration, under limi-
tation of debate.
350 Biiis Introduced.
More than $40 new bills and rcsolu-
tions were dropped into the House
hopper today and u flood OF similar
proportions is expected tomorrow in
the Senate. The new House measures
dealt with almost every conceivable
subject. including proposals for re-
peal OF war laws. for appropriations
OF millions OF dollars for myriad
OF purposes, pensions and many
measures for farmers relief.
Committees of both Senate and
House are to begin work immediate-
ly on the measures left on their call
endars from preceding sessions and
on the new grist. Calls for numer-
Gus committee meetings this week
We're ISSUED by chairmen today. but
leaders said that the regular apprn-
priation bills would have the rish,
OF way. They added that It was
hoped to pass all of the appropria-
tion bills before Marh 4, but that
considerable other legislation would
be squeezed in" 1t also was
said that there probably would
be short holiday recess about De-
cember %, over New Years Day and
that the principal work OF the ses-
sion would come after the. holidays.
Arrangements also were made to-
day for resumption of numerous con-
gressional Investigations suspended
in part or wholly during the recen,
recess.
To Act ON One Treaty.
Among early committee meetings
called was session of tho Senats
Foreign Relations COMMITTEES. for
next Wednesday. to take up con-
vention with Canada dealing with
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