The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-05
BACK ON The JOB
Sixty-Seventh Congress Con-
venes in Regular Session.
President to Deliver Message in
Person Tuesday.
new FIGHT LOOMS IN SENATE
Tariff and Foreign Debts Mixed
in Controversy.
Both Houses Adjourn So Hard
ing Can Be Notified.

Washington. Dec. 5.-The sixty
seventh congress went to work at
noon today when the first regular ses-
sion of this congress opened.
Ten days only had elapsed since the
adjournment of the extra session and
it generally was predicted that the
session convening today would not end
until well into next summer.
President Harding announced to
congressional committee which noti-
fled him of the convening of congress
tt lay that he would deliver his an
nua1 message in person at 1890
o'clocL tomorrow.
Officially Notify President.
The house took up a bill providing
for a deep sea waterway thru the St
Lawrence river. The senate, after dis
posing of morning hour business, was
TO take up the foreign debt refunding
bill.
The senate recessed until o'clock
to permit a committee of senate and
house leaders to journey to the White
House and formally notify the presf-
dent that congress was in session and
awaited his message.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
the Republican leader, and Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, acting Demo-
cratic leader, were designated by Vice
President Coolidge to represent the
upper chamber on the committee.
New Fight Looms.
Another fight in the senate is brew
ing over the tariff, The president is
expected to request in his message
that proposed tariff legislation be
made as elastic as possible to provide
a oil rNf lVrAT
will permit him to deal with the tariff
situation as it changes from time to
time, because of the stable condition
of foreign exchange and the foreign
and domestic markets.
The effect which the armament
conference and pending and prospec-
tive legislation will have on next years
congressional elections, was upper
most in the thoughts of the leaders
and the rank and file of both parties
today when the second session of the
sixty seventh congress got under way.
Next Congress Problem.
The bitter controversy regarded as
certain to break in both the senate
and house over the important devel-
opments in the international situation
since the conference opened, was one.
it was declared on all sides. that is
bound to influence the political COM
plexion of the next congress.
Members of both chambers awaited
with mixed feelings the delivery in
person by the president tomorrow of a
message which is expected to dea-
largely with the grave economic and
financial problems, domestic and in
ternational, which confront the Ameri-
can people.
Start on Foreign Debts.
It was understood that the presi-
dent would read his message in which
the shifting tariff situation would be
particularly emphasized before joint
session at which many of the repre-
sentatives of the foreign nations par
ticipating in the conference would be
present.
4 In compliance with the expressed
wish of the president the senate will
start the session with the foreign debt
funding bill over which an acrimoni-
Gus verbal battle is sure to be waged.
Efforts will be made by Republican
and Democratic senators dissatisfied
with the measure as it passed the
house to have it amended so that con-
gress may be represented on the com
mittee of five it would set up for the
purpose of handling the foreign debt.