The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-06-10
ADJOUR.NS
Republicans Put Through Many I'm
portant Measures During the
Six Months Session.
Unless Special Session is Found Nee
essary Congress Will Not Re-
convene Until Dec.6.

convene Until Dec. 6.
On Saturday at p. m. the second
session of the sixty sixth congress adj
journed sine die and, unless grave
emergency arises which makes neces-
sary special session, it will not meet
again until December 6. The session
which ended on Saturday opened on
December l, 1919, and important legis-
lation enacted during that time in
cluded:
Army reorganization bill providing
for peace time army Of .297 900 Of
ticers and men, national guard and
a reserve force.
Transportation act designed to as
sist railroads over the period immedi-
ately following their return to private
control last March.
Oil leasing bill by which thousands
of acres of oil and mineral lands in
the west and south were thrown open
to development.
Merchant marine bill providing for
ultimate sale of vast, government
owned merchant fleet.
Sterling anti-sedition and the john
son bill providing for the deportation
and exclusion of dangerous aliens.
The Edge bill authorizing forma-
ton Of corporations to finance Ameri-
can export trade.
Civil service retirement bill.
Postal pay increase bill.
Important bills which failed to pass
include:
Soldier bonus bill passed by house,
but not taken up in senate.
Budget bill which President Wilson
vetoed and which senate failed to pass
after the house had amended it to meet
the presidents objection.
Bill to regulate and control meat
packing industry.
r The cold storage bill. 3;.s,
Bill to abolish the housing corpora
ton.
Annual rivers and harbors supply
measure left in conference.
Besides the legislation passed, con-
gress also sent to the president and he
approved sixteen supply measures,
carrying total Of $2,688, 1886, 14ss.
Permanent appropriation bills Of a
total Of $1,492,0oo,ooo also were
passed and approved
During the six months Of the ses-
sion just ended, total of approx,
matcly 10000 bills and resolutions
were introduced. The senate ap-
proved .315 bills and joint resolutions
and the house 37s bills and joint reso-
buttons. The former adopted about
23O resolutions not requiring house ac-
tion and the house adopted about the
same number not needing senate ac-
ton.
Much Of the session was occupied by
another unsuccessful effort to agree on
a peace settlement which would end
the technical state Of war. The trea-
ty of Versailles, laid aside at the close
of the first session in November, was
brought back before the senate early
in February and a final vote on its
ratification was reached March 10, af-
ter all efforts. to bring about a COM
promise had failed.
AS an alternative both senate and
house later adopted a joint resolution
formally declaring state Of peace,
but it was vetoed by the president, and
when republican leaders sought to re-
pass it the house failed to. muster the,
necessary two-thirds majority.
The house was in restless mood
throughout the closing day and efforts
of many members to have taken up
special bills in which they were inter-
ested failed. In the last half hour the
house, however, settled down to give
close attention. to the addresses Of
Representatives Mondell and Garrett.
Mr.. Mondell declared that this con-
gress in its two sessions had made a
saving Of $2,374,46O,817. Eight APP
preparation bills that passed the house
in the sixty fifth congress, but faile.l
in the senate fiilibuster, were reduced
$94O, 510,598, Mr.. Mondell said, and the
estimates submitted by the govern
ment departments for the next fiscal
year were reduced by SLABS, $50, 21s..
Several laws were cited by Mr..
Mondell as constituting record un-
equaled in American history. He in
cluded the transportation act, the
woman suffrage amendment, the mer-
chant marine bill, the mineral .land
leasing, bill, the water power act, the
civil service retirement measure, the
Volstead prohibition enforcement law,
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