The Washington herald., 1920-12-21
EMBARGO DEMANDS FLOOD CONGRESS
What Congress Did Yesterday

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ana rorefgu Commerce Comnittee
IN behalf 81 maternity bill.
Census Cemmittee aBnounced
hearings on siegeI bill increaslpg
House membership to $s5 for De-
eember 70 and - epd January 4.
Census. Committee reported bill
nuthorisfhg payment Of cents
name for census epumerstion OF
array and navy.
Ways ana Means Committee re-
ported bill inereasing tarin rates on
farm products, eReetive for ten
ssonths.
Bills Passed on Unsnineus Consent
Calendar.
Extending time for payment Of
purehase money On -homestead en-
tries In former standiRg Rock Res
ePvat1en IN Nerth and South Dakota.
Autherising the cutting Of timber
by ecrporations orgsnised In one
state and operatfng II anether.
DECLARING Platte River to be .
nsansvigabie stream.
Providing protection water supply
ss sunnytide Utah.
Bxtending time for payment pur-
chase money under Homestead en-
trfea within former Fert Assinnf-
hoine Reservation, Montana.
Amending an act providing for sale
IL desert lands In certain states.
Amending the United states penal
code.
Previains for the conveyance Of
lots on the low grounds Of WASH
inEton, d. c.
Authorising sale portion Of Cop
per-Harbor Range Lighthouse Res
ervation, Miehisan.
Bills Passed. Over -witheut Preiudice
ana Placed at the Foot Of the
Unaaimous Consent Calendars
Auth orisi.g appropriation s1o0.000
for erection Of postofliee. courthouse
and Jail at Cordova, Alaska.
Providing for the allotment OF
lands within Fort Belknap Indian
Reservation, Montana.
Authsrising lieu selection BY
State of South Dakota for 100 acres
on Pfne Ridge Indian Reservation.
Providing for disposition certain
public lands withdrawn and i'm
proved and which are NO longer
needed.
Grantias relief to members Of the
Military Telegraph Corps Of the
army duriag civil war.
Anending ~ act making further
provisiens for civil Eeves1ment OF
Alaska.
Encouraging reclsmatios certain
arid lands In California.
Amending act granting additional
quarantine powers and Imposing ad-
ditional dnties on Marine Hospital
Service.
AuthcrisinE consolidation OF lands
In AntionaI forests, south Dakota.
Authorizing addition certain Iands
to sequoia National Park, California
and to change name to Roosevelt,
National Park.
Providing for disposition aban-
doned portions rights of way grant
ed to railroad companies.
Validating certain applications for
and entries Of public lands.
Bills defeated by objection, only
one objection being necessary on
unanimous consent day,
Providing for esta bHshment Na.
tfonai Employment Bureau In De-
partnent Of Labor.
AuthoriEing Indians of CaliSoruis
to submit elains to Court Of Claims,
Authorizing FEDERAL Trade Com
mission to i1vestixate whether any
corporation IL violating anti-trus,
laws touching sugar.
Authorizing issuance Of patent to
MIX RiYer Valley Gun Club.
Astheffsing graatisg certain irri-
ration easements in YeIlowstene
National Park.
Authorizing refund Of duties col
lected 'on field kitchens imported
durinE 1915.
Te Increase, without Federal ex.
penditure, opportunities Of people Ia
acquire rural homes.
Authorising exchange Of lands
within Montesuma National Forest,
Colorado. -
Providing for the monthly pay
meat Of pensions. =.
Bills introduced.
Monahan, Wiscoasin-Autho orixinr q
painting of Abraham Lincoln for
the hall Of the House Of Representa-
tives.
Weaver, North Carolina Appro-
priating &10,OOO,o00 for continue tiou
food control act.
Langley Kentucky - Auth orising
construction bridge across Tug
River, Mtngo County, W. Va.
steenersou, Wisconsin-Trausfe
ring to War Finance Corporation
funds held BY Alien Propefty Gus
todian. for dfscounting export bill.
for products OF the United States
shipped to certain European coun-
tries.
johnson, washington-Autho
Ing lease of school lands ontainine z
depesits Of coal, oil. oil shaIe or
gas by State Of Washingtou for
longer periods. than hve years.
Huh, Tenn.-Provfding for an
pointment of joint select committee
to facilitate exchange and sale of
agricultural products between pro-
ducer and consumer.
Volstead-Amendin bankruptcy
act by extending time for the fling
Of applications for discharge with
court OF bankruptcy after having
been adtudged bankrupt, to one
year.