Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-05
SUPPLY MEASURES
TOTAL 4 BILLIONS
Congress Works Late to Clean
8 Up Congestion of Legis-
lation.
ADJOURN q P. M. TODAY
All Appropriation Bills Save
One Have Been Completed
by Legislators.
ADJOURN q P. M. TODAY
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lby Associated PreSs.
WASHlNGTON, June i.-Both Sen
ate and House held long sessions
again tonight in final effort to clean
up congestion o. minor legislation
and one or two important bills be-
fore adjournment at i. NJ tomor-
row.
All Of the big annual supply meas
ures except one had been completed
before the night sessions ended. The
one remaining is the rivers and
harbors measure. and. since it still
was deadlocked in conference, leaders
had about given up hope of it's
passage. House confcrces held ou,
for the SI2,000.Q00 total fixed by the
House, while the senate managers
apparently were equally as insistent
that the Senate total of $4,000. .O0O
be retained.
Senate amendments to the joint
resolution repeating most OF the spc-
cial wartime laws were accepted late
tonight by the House without,
record vote. The measure goes to
the President tomorrow.
The third deficiency bill, carrying
s5s.o0o.o00. also was in conference.
but 1t was expected to be passed
before adjournment. One money
measure passed, the naval bill. car
ryinE s436.000.0o0. and still awaits
the Presidents approval
Total OF Bills S4,I22,as5.I43.
The total OF all OF the supply meas =
ures, including two deficiency bills
and the railroad deficiency measure,
passed at this session was placed at
s4,122,3S5.143. This included pcrma :
ncnt appropriations OF sl.492 900. 600
for the public debt sinking fund,
good roads and government depart
ments and Institutions not provided
for In the thirteen regular annual sup
ply measures. The largest OF the sup
ply bills was the post office measure,
which carried s462,539.490. The next
largest was the army bill with a
total Of s39+,e23.00O. The sundry civil
measure carried the same amount as
the naval bill. For railroad deficiency
$303. 100000 was appropriated, while
S27o15o.o0o was provided for pen
sions. The only other supply meas
ure exceeding SlOo.Oo0.0oo was tho
legislative. executive and judicial
which carried S1oi,7o5.00o.
Several Measures Fail.
Several important measures failed
OF enactment. They included bills to
regulate the meat-packing industry
to bar dangerous aliens from the
country and tariff measures to pro-
tcct industries built up during the
war. including dyes. button manutac-
turc and certain mining. The cold
storage bill. the measure to place an
embargo on exports Of sugar and the
bill giving the War Department au-
thority to operate the Musscl Shoals
nitrate plant also have failed.
Bes:des those OF the 600 postmas-
ters. the Senate has number OF
other nominations pending. Leaders
said tonight that the nominations OF
John SHELTON Williams to be Comp
troller Of the Currency. and of Mar
tin ]. Gillen to be a member of the
Shipping Board. would not be con-
frmed at this session
Two important measures-thc wa
ter power and army reorganization
are before the President Some SEN
afors said that unless these were ap-
proved before Congress adjourned
they automatically would fail by rea-
son Of the constitutional provision
that no bills could be signed when
Congress was not in session.