Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-09-28
CONGRESS- CLOSES
SESSION Sine Die.
Adjournment Taken After Ten
Months Of Business.
HARDING SIGNS LAST BILLS
Ending Of Session in Both Houses
Marked by Brief Thrusts of Mem

bers.
Washington.-Th second session of
the sixty-seventh congress adjourned
sine die
Legislation passed in the closing
minutes of the session was signed at
kthe capitol by President Harding
Congress was in session ten months
One of the last acts Of the two
houses was passage of the deficiency
bill carrying q total of $2,454,210, in
Guiding 100000 for relief of Ameri-
can in Smyrna.
The president arrived at the capitol
a quarter Of an hour before the time
set for adjournment, and at his desk
in the presidents room affixed his
signature to the last minute legisla-
! tive measures.
i h The house quit work promptly at
2 two O'Clock in accordance with the adj
journment resolution, which the SEN
ate adopted. Signing by the senate
presiding officer of a number of re-
Gently passed bills delayed adjourn
ment of tha senate until a few minutes
later.
Adoption of the adjournment resolu-
ton was marked by brief thrust by
Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missis-
sippi, at the Republicans He said
the session sended as the most reac-
tionary congress since the time CT Al
Adrich and TIE most subservient to ex-
ecutive diction since the days of
Roosevelt
Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah,
asserted no congress ever enacted a
greater percentage of legislation prom
ised by the majority party.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, Ten
nessee, used some of the closing min
utes in attacking the presidents veto
of the soldiers bonus bill. Senator
Sutherland, Republican, West Virginia,
entered a protest against adjournment
without action on thu anti-lynching
bill.
In the house there were many re-
quests from members for permission
TO extend their remarks in the Record
ton all sorts of subjects. AS the hour
of two O'Clock arrived Speaker Gillet
gave the gavel a bang, wished all
members a safe journey home and a
pleasant vacation, and declared the
session adjourned sine die.
Representative Quinn, Democrat,
Mississippi, who always gets 4 big
laugh, was one of the closing perform
ers, and he got the house in rare good
humor Representative Langley, Re-
publican, Kentucky, as a sort of self
appointed interlocutors added TO the
! gayety by some strong thrustss at the
= Mississippi orator
Representative Wingo, Democrat,
Arkansas, tried to learn from Repre-
sentative Campbell, Kansas, acting Re-
publican leader, whether the president
had decided to call a special session
in November but Mr.. Campbell had
no information.
The president, while at the capitol,
signed sheaf of small bills and reso-
luti0ns which We're rushed through in
the closing minutes, and also affixed
his signature to thet deficiency appro-
priation measure, final action on which
had been taken only an hour before.
Before his departure for the capitol
Mr. Harding Lad signed the rivers and
n liarbors Development bill which auth-
orizes ultimate expenditure of nearly
S50,0O0,000.
Important bills which failed of en-
actment and went over to the next
session, in addition to the anti-lynch-
ing bill, included the measure author
izing a loan of $5,000,000 to Liberia.
A large number of nominations died
with adjournment, most Of them being
/ post masters and consulars officers.