The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-24
CONGRESSIONAL
LEADERS PUSH
BICPROCRAM
Senate Has Crowded Calendar
While House Has Little
Business for Sixty
Day Session.
TO CONSIDER TAX BILL
One of the First Questions
Taken Up viii Be the
Peace Treaty With
Germany.
By L. C. MARTIN.

United Press Staff Couespondent.)
WAsHINcToN.-tBy Mail)-Congres.
got back 10 work Wednesday, with it:
leaders determined 10 push its majol
tasks TO completion within sixty days.
While the House had little ahead Of i,
requiring immediate action, the senaie's
calendar was crowded with business.
President Harding was expected 10 sub
nit the treaty with Germany at once. A,
the same time, the finance committee
was to report the s4.O00.OOO.OO0 tax
bill. These two measures appeared likely
10 claim the center Of the senatorial stage
for some weeks TO come.
In addition, the senate has the confer.
ence report on the anti-beer bill to dis.
pose Of. This is one Of the most warmly
cOntroyerted measures ever before con.
gress, and there was no sign of weaken.
ing by its opponents They were ready
10 go ahead tying up the bill indefinite.
ly. they said, until their wishes wer met.
Senator Borah's bill repeating tolls
on American coastwise ships passing
through the Panama canal was the un.
finished business before the senate when
it met. Borah's bill will be voted on
October 10, but il is unlikely much Of
the interim will be spent in debate upon
it.
by the house, and the allied debt refund.
The railroad relief bill, already passed
ing bill were both on the senaie's calen.
dar. An effort will be made 10 get the
railroad bill through. but the debt re.
funding measure has been sidetracked for
the present.
The interstate commerce committee
is scheduled 10 resume its exhaustive in.
vestigation Of the railroad situation at an
early date. In several weeks of inyes,i.
cation last spring, the committee heard
the railroads side of the questions in.
rolved. Labor is TO be heard this fall.
The senate labor committee has The
West Virginia mine war on lis hands.
and will Try TO formulate some settle.
ment. after completing its investigation.
Reports on the investigation Of Truman
II. Newberry's right to his seat as
United States senator from Michigan will
be filed with the senate, and at some
time before December an effort will be
made TO bring up the question on the
floor. This will precipitate a bitter par. |
tisan fight.
A subcommittee is to continue an in.
vestIgation began in the summer of Am
erican intervention in Haiti and Santo |
Domingo. The committee may decide TO |
visit the island republics. A naval SUBJ
committee will resume its inquiry into
the case Of Capt. Chamberlain. whose
aerial exploits during the war resulted !
in his dismissal from the naval service.
chamberlain claims he was unjustly con. |
victed and dismissed, and is seeking win.
dicaiion.
ihe senate also has the tariff bill. but
administration leaders did not know lust
where it would fit into the legislative
program. That will be determined when |.
the tax bill is out Of the way.
The house, meanwhile. may consider
the maternity bill which the senate had
passed, or may take up a soldier bonus
bill The allied loan refunding measure
also may come in for some attention. A
further deficiency appropriation also
Is expected before long