Evening star., 1921-02-27
What Congress Is Doing
The Senate.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Senate faces a huge task in
the final days of the present ses-
sion, ending Friday at noon. In
addition to putting through the
Navy bill. to which there is oppo-
sition. it must act upon a large
number of conference reports on
appropriation bills that have
reached the conference stage, and
must deal with a number of i'm
portant legislative measures.
The Legislative measures await
ing action by the Senate include
the Fordney emergency tariff bill,
the conference report on which, it
is hoped. will be voted upon in the
Senate at 2 pm. tomorrow. Then
there is the soldiers bonus bill. re-
ported to the Senate yesterday
from the finance committee, with
amendments putting off the time
the benefits are to be granted and
eliminating entirely the taxation
features of the House bill. While
efforts will be made on the part of
proponents of the measure to get a
vote, it is expected that objection
unanimous consent to fix a date
for vote, and that the bill will
fail because of lack of action.
Action on the House measure
proposing the repeal of the war
time measures extending very
greatly the executive authority is
demanded vigorously by Senator
Borah of Idaho, Senator Sterling of
south Dakota and other senators.
Some supporters of this bill threat
en- hlfbuster against other legis-
vspt tn,,
bills, unless they are given an op-
portunity to vote on the House
measure. On the other hand. SEN
ator Thomas of Colorado and other
senators are said to be determined
to prevent vote on it,
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin,
chairman of the manufactures COM
mittee, is knocking at the door
with the Calder coal regulation
bill. But Senator Reed of Missouri
is violently opposed to this legis-
lation, and it is understood that he
Will object to vote being taken
on it even in the modified form in
Whlch 1t was reported to the SEN
ate.
Democratic senator's. under the
leadership in this particular in
stance of Senator Robinson of Ar
Kansas. are planning another ef-'
fort to have the higher Army Off
GERS nominated by President Will
son acted upon before the close of
the session. In this connection it
is likely that the republicans will
resist all efforts to bring about
any further combinations Of NOM
inees of President Wilson.
They have prevented an execu-
tive session of the Senate during
the entire present session of Con-
gress. and so have made it impos-
sible for the reference of the thou
sands of nominations sent id by the
President to the various commit
tees of the Senate to which, under
the rules. they go before they are
acted upon by the Senate. These
obstructive tactics will continue
until the end of the session, it IS
said.
Senator Sterling of South Dakota,
chairman of the civil service COM
mittee, has given formal notice in
writing of a motion to discharge
the Senate appropriations commit
tee from further consideration of
the Jones bill on reclassification Of
government employees and to have
the bill referred to his committee.
This motion is due to come up this
week for action.
The Senate yesterday put the fin
ishing legislative touch upon the
immigration bill, agreeing to the
conference report, and the bill now
goes to the President for his ap-
proval.