Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-06-11
CONGRESS- QUITS
TILL DECEMBER 6
Second Session of the LaWmak-
ing Body Adiourns
Sine Die.
SPECIAL SESSION UNLIKELY
President cIings TO War Powers as
He Lets Repeal Bill Die-foo
Acts Are Signed by Him
at Close.


Washington, June S.-The second
session of the Sixty-sixtn congress adj
iourned sine die. Unless summoned
IN special session it will not reassem-
Bile until December 6. In the interim
President Wilson viii remain clothed
ip all his wartime powers, and in po-
sition to make nearly 200 recess APP
pointments- -some Ct them to impor-
tant posts. 1t is regarded as unlikely
that ne will call special session un-
less forced to do so by a grave emer-
gency.
Only the insistent desire of con
gressmen to end the session--with ma
tional conventions calling them urgent
ly--enabled the president 10 continue
in possession OF dictatorial powers. BY
Withholding his signature to the meas
ure repeating all wartime laws, ex-
eept the Lever act, the trading with
the enemy act and tne Liberty and
Victory loan legislation, the president
allowed the repeal resolution to die
he cannot legally sign a bill after con-
gress has adjourned
The session closed without the
usual last minute rush of bills, the
house particularly being In watch
ing the clock" frame of mind while It
waited fer the senate, In which some
minor filibusters developed There
was the usual eulogy of the session by
he majority leader and the customary
denunciation Of It's worlS--or lack #
work-by the minority's chief spell
binder
Representative Mondell, Wyoming
Republican floor leader, pointed with
pride" 20 the work of the session. de-
claring that, except as TO certain bills
for the protection of American indus
try, which passed the house but failed
in the senate because of Democratic
opposition" the program of legisla-
tion announced by the Republican
conference at the beginning of the
first session had "been carried ont to
the letter" He said the session had a
right to be proud Of the economy it
had instituted and the constructive
legislation 1t had passed.
Representative Garrett, Democrat,
Tennessee charged the Republicans
with responsibility forSa long list of
slns--both of commission and 0mis-
sion--concIudng with the remark that
the session had been ''pitiful and gave
the Republicans nothing to be proud
or"
More than 100 bills of major and
minor importance we're signed by the
president before the session closed
Among those which he permitted to
die by failure to afiix his signature,
the water power legislation, which was
passed after more than a decade of eff
fort, was regarded as next in impor-
tance to the war law repeal resolution.
A measure looking toward relief Of the
print paper shortage In the United
States died I'm a similar manner.
Among the important measures
signed by President Wilson were the
naval appropriation bill, $436,0O0.OO0;
the army appropriation bill, S394,929.-
600; the sundry civil bill. $436,OO0Oe9;
the District OF Columbia, S18,3730OO
the diplomatic and consular appropria-
fion, $9,21S.537; the third deficiency
bill, S58,000,000; the ermy reorganiza-
tion bill the merchant marine bill the
post office pay increase bill bin pro-
viding for the exclusion and deporta-
tlon of alien anarchists; bills to pen
sion veterans Of the Spanish, Philip
pine and China campaigns. and to in
crease pensions to certain Of their de-
pendents; the industrial vocational re-
hablltation bill bill permitting gov
ernment radio stations TO handle pri-
yate messages an amendment to the
trading with the enemy act restoring
seized property q citizens OF newborn
countries who when war was declared,
were enemy aliens an act establishing
woman's bureau in the department
of labor.
In addition to the bills signed or
vetoed, other important legislation
passed by the present session, which
began December /, 1919, included the
transportation act, the woman suf-
frage amendment the mineral land
leasing bill. the volstead prohibition
enforcement law, the civil service re-
tlrement measure, the Sweet war risk
act. the extension Of the Lever law to
punish prOhteers.