Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-12-06
APPROPRIATION
Bills UP FOR
EARLY ACTION
Preliminary Work to be
Pushed by Harding Ad-
ministrati0n Will
be Feature.
MESSAGE TOMORROW
No Action Affecting Foreign
Relations is Expect
ed.
MESSAGE TOMORROW
(By The Associated press.)


Washington. ID. c., Dec. 6.-Passage
of the annual appropriation bills and
preliminary work on matters to be
pushed by the new administration
we're expected to occupy much Of the
time for the last session of the Sixty
|siXth congress which began today to
continue until the Inauguration of
Prcsident-Elect Harding on March 4.
Sessions today were limited to the
usual formal ceremonies in the senate
and house. Tomorrow the annual mes
sage from President Wilson will be re-
ceived and congress then will get down
to the real work of the session. Re-
ceipt from Secretary Houston Of the
annual federal appropriation estimates,
aggregating several billions Of dollars,
was one Of today's events.
Adjournment until tomorrow out Of
respect for house members who have
died since the closing of last session in
June and to await the presidents mes
sage. was arranged to follow tOday's
routine. This included the chaplain's
prayer. roll calls of membership and
adoption of resOlutiOnss to notify the
President and each body of today's as
sembling Lodge Of Massachusetts. the
Republican leader. had charge Of these
resolutions in the senate, and Repre-
sentative Mondell of Wyoming. still Oh
crutches from recent accident, acted
similarly in the house.
Other formalities on today's program
were the swearing in of Senators Cart
or Glass. of Virginia. elected to fill the
term of the late Senator
Martin. and Senator J. Thomas Retlin,
of Alabama, successor to the late Sen
ator Bankhcad. Several new house
members elected to fill vacancies also
were to be sworn in.
Unfinished Business.
The senate's unfinished business.
pending and awaiting debate. with pro.
tratcd discussion in prospect. included
the Kenyon-Kendrick bills to regulate
the meat packers and other adjuncts of
the live stock industry. The bill was
expected to be the vehicle for numer
ous speeches and .other debate by SEN
.lD
foreign, and many other subjects. The
house also had many bills waiting on
its calendar.
Although all pending bills die when
congress adjourns in March, little gen
cral legislation was planned for. the
present session by leaders. The appro-
pria ton bills. originating in the house.
were to be given right of way. in the
hope of passing all by March and hav
ing the decks clear for other le.iSla-
ton in the proposed special session of
the new congress next April. Many
new bills and resolutions were ready
for introduction. however
No Action on Treaty.
With general expectation that
wishes of President Elect Harding and
other republican leaders would prevail
rega riding legislative action during the
present session. no immediate move
American international rela-
tons was contemplated by the Repuhli-
ran leaders. There was much specula
of congress whether President Wilson
would return the Treaty of Versailles
to the senate.
Treaties before the senate foreign re-
ations committee, without prospect of