Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-09-29
CONGRESS
ENDS ITS WORK
Members Go Home to Look After
Political Fences.
QUITS AFTER LONG SESSION
Passage of $2,545,210 Deficiency Bill
Among Last Acts-Worid's ReIa-
tons and Acute Domestic Is
sues Taken Up.

washington, Sept. 23.-Almost ten
months of legislative action ending
with adjournment sine die of the Sec
ono session of the Sixty-seventh con-
gress covered vide range, affecting
the nations international relations as
Wen as its economic, industrial and
nome life. Legislation passed in the
closing minutes of the session was
signed at the capitol by President
Harding.
Passage of the adjournment reso-
lutlon In the senate was marked by
Drlef thrust by Senator Harrison
lDem., Miss.) at the Republicans. the
mississippi senator declaring that the
session ended as the most reactionary
congress since the time of Aldrich.and
the most subservient to executive die
tatlon since the days of Roosevelt"
one OF the last acts of the two
houses was Passage of the deficiency
Dill carrying a total of $2,454, 210, in
Guiding 100000 for relief of Ameri-
cans in Smyrna.
Session Began Last December.
Passage of the permanent tariff re-
vision and the soldier bonus bill-the
latter failing because of the Presi-
dents veto-probably were the chief
features of the session which began
December last. 1t was the first regu-
lar session of congress since the in
auguration of the Harding administra-
ton, special session being called in
the spring of 1921. The Washington
conference on limitation OF armament
and Far Eastern questions, and the
railroad and coal strikes, however,
gave congress new and unexpected
problems to deal with.
The naval limitation and a half
dozen other conference treaties were
ratified by the senate last March after
weeks of debate had delayed other
legislation, and about as many weeks
were required for conferences and
legislation growing out of the two
strikes-the federal coal commission
and coal regulation and distribution
bills.
Appropriations at $2,250, 100000.
Scores of other new laws were made
and dozen regular and several spe-
cial appropriation bills, carrying up
ward of $2,2500O0,0OO, passed, the
first under the new budget system and
the reorganiZed congressional apLro-
priation committees.
The session was marked by three
personal addresses by President Hard
ing at joint sessions, one opening the
session, another one on merchant ma
rine legislation and a third on the
industrial situation
Other notable features of the session
included the seating of Senator New
berry (Rep., Mich) by the senate JAN
uary II; the recent attempt by Repre-
sentative Keller (Rep., Minn.) to i'm
peach Attorney General Daugherty
confirmation by the senate of ambassa-
doris and ministers to Germany, Aus
tria and Hungary; confirmation of ex-
Senator Sutherland of Utah as a
justice of the Supreme court to sue
coed Justice Clarke, resigned; deaths
of Senators Penrose and Crow of
Pennsylvania resignation of William
S. Kenyon from the senate to go on
the federal bench, and the long tariff
debate in the senate.
The tariff discussion began April
IL and broke all congressional records
for continuous legislative day.
through daily recesses without single
adjournment. from April 20 to Au.
gust 2.
Politics" as might be expected be-
fore the biennial congressional cleo
tons, was constantly in the capitol
air during the entire session, with in
Vulnerable partisan speeches
Important Legislation Listed.
Headed by the tariff bill, the SEES
sion's more important legislation pro-
vided for:
Creation of the allied debt-funding
commission.
Appropriation of $20OOO,OOO for Rus
sian relief.
Appointment of "dirt farmer" on
the federal reserve board
Cooperative marketing by farmers.
Regulation of grain futures" so as
to meet the Supreme court decision
making the original Capper-Tincher
law imperative.
Creation Of % more federal Judge.
ships.
Extension of the 3 per cent immi-
grafton quota law for two years.