The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-13
LEADERS HOPEFUL : OF PASSING FIRST
 MAJOR LEGISLATION
Senate Resumes Work on Farmer Relief Measure To-
 day While House Will
 Take Up Immigration
By Associated Press

Washington, December 12.--The Senate and House will convene tomorrow with leaders hopeful of passage before ad' journment of the first major legislation to be voted on at this session of Con- gress.
 The Senate will resume its considera- tion of the agriculture committee reso- lution directing recreation of the war finance corporation and the extension by the federal reserve ssytem of rural cred its to farmers. An informal understand.
 ing has been reached to bring the reso- lution to a vote before 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The roll call on the measure is expected to be preceded by an att tempt to strike out the provision relat-
 ing to farm credit legislation by the fed- eral reserve system on the ground that lit is unnecessary and useless. The House, under arrangements cum pleted today, is expected to proceed rap idly to final vote on the Johnson bill to prohibit immigration. The measure, as amended by the House in the com mittee of the whole, would stop imml- grafton for one year, instead of for two years, as originally drafted. Advocates of the longer prohibition period organ
 zed at conferences held today to elini- nate the one-year amendment when the measure comes before the House sitt!ag in regular session. Representative Rakcr, democrat, California, assisting Chairman Johnson of the immigration committee,
 in urging enactment of the bill, said to- night he was confident the measure s supporters would have sufficient strength to vote down the amendment. Ultimate passage of the bill is regarded as as- sured
 TO GO AFTER PACKERS The Senate, after disposing of the farmer relief legislation, will take up the Gronna bill to regulate the packing in- dustry, one of the measures left over from last session. A long period of de bate is considered in prospect on th,s measure Several senators were said to- day to be preparing formal speeches on other subjects. including international af- fairs. which may cause the Senate de- bate between now and the Christmas re- cess to be turned into channels other than that relating to regulation Of the packers.
 The yolstead resolution to repeal most of the wartime laws will have the right of way in the House after disposition of the immigration bill. General debate on the Volstead resolution by decision of the rules committee is limited to two hours,
  to be added to the list of adopted legis- lation before the end of the week.
 Disposition of the resolution designed to grant financial relief to farmers will not end consideration by the Senate of means of helping farmers confronted by falling prices. The Senate agriculture committee will continue it's hearings with a. view to adopting relief measures
 subcommittee, headed by Senator Kellogg, will begin an investigation of cable landings which is the subject of controversy between several departments and the Western Union Telegraph com |pany.
 Chairman Fordney of the House ways and means committee announced today that his committee was prepared to be- gin hearings tomorrow on tax revision legislation.
 These hearings will continue until the Christmas recess. and early in January the hearings on tariff revision will be- gin. Neither tariff nor tax revision Will be attempted at this session, leaders have agreed but the hearings are designed to permit prompt action at the extra session to be called by Presdent-elect Harding soon after his inauguration.