The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1920-06-11
IHE66TH CONGRESS
ADJOURNED June )
olePs' BONUS BILL FAILED
TO PASS-DlED IN
SENATE.
MEMBERS ANXIOUS TO GO HOME
o.oubIicans Praise Work of Congress
While Democrats Call it a "Hu-
initiating FaiIure"-Peace
Talk, Too Much.

initiating TdlIbIC cave
Talk, Too Much.
WASHINGTON.-The Goth congress
orded it's second session Saturday, adj
iourned sine die Unless a grave emer-
gency arises, as President Wilson said,
# will not meet again until Deem
Der 6.
AS the result of filibuster, the bill
nroviding national budget system
failed of passage.
lust as the finish in the house, Mon
dell of Wyoming delivered an address
Draising congress. Garrett of Ten
nessee replied that this congress had
been a "humiliating failure"
Important measures which failed of
passage included,
The soldier bonus bill, passed by
the house last Saturday night and
pigeonholed by the senate.
The budget bill, which President
Wilson vetoed, and which the senate
talleu W pass d1LOi IuC uouoS Hdu
amended it to meet the presidents
objection.
The bill to regulate the meat pack
ers
The cold storage bill and the act to
abolish the housing corporation.
The annual rivers and harbors sup
ply measure.
important Bills Passed.
Important legislation enacted in
cluded:
The bill providing for peace time
army OF $4,000 officers and men, a
national guard and a reserve force.
The transportation act to assist the
railroads.
The oil leasing bill by which thou
sands of acres of oil and mineral
lands in the west and south were
thrown open to development.
The merchant marine bill providing
for the sale of the government-owned
merchant fleet
The Sterling anti-sedition act and
the Johnson bill providing for the
deportation of dangerous aliens.
The Edge bill authorizing the for
nation of corporations to finance ex-
port trade.
The civil service retirement bill.
The postal pay increase bill.
Total Grist 10000 Acts.
Barring the six months of the SEES
SION just ended "a total of about 10000
Ollls and resolutions were introduced.
ne senate approved about 315 bills
ana Joint resolutions and the house
90 DIS and joint resolutions.
Inc senate adopted about 230 reso-
iu'lohs not requiring house action
ana the house adopted about the
same number not needing senate ac-
ton.
Much OF the session was occupied
Wy flnal unsuccessful effort to agree
on peace settlement which would
eho the technical state of war.
important Bills Signed.
The most important of the bills
signed were:
me naval appropriation bill, carry
ing $436,O0O, 600.
me army appropriation bill. carry |
ing $994,929, 900.
The sundry civil bill, carrying
$456,O00,O00.
The third deficiency bill, carrying
$4,000 600.
M rue army reorganization bill.
Inc merchant marine bill.
,"e poStoffice pay increase bill.
Dill providing for the exclusion
anu expulsion from the United States
', aliens who are members of anar-
OniStic organizations.
AN act to pension soldiers and
sailors -, of the Spanish-American war
cn, Fhlllppine insurrection and the
0nIna relief expedition.
Inc industrial vocational rehabili-
tation bill
y, an act amending the trading with
.n0 enemy act to permit the restora-
s ana Oh seized property to returned
aliens and to residents Of for
~ ehemy countries now residents of
reaty. 'p "i'Oei INC po'o0
81 s1n act to establish a woman's bu-
au III the department of labor.
..e an act to establish pensions and in
ma e"Se OF pensions to certain sailors
ini, soldiers of wars other than the
a,d. war, and widows and dependent
''a'iSes OF such persons. :
H. an act authorizing enlistment in
10 federal forces of non-Enolich |