Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
What Congress Is Doing
The Senate.

The tariff bill. according to the
plans of the leaders. is to be given
the right Of way in the Senate cham
Der this week. The minority report
OF Senate finance committee on the
measure will be filed by Senator
Simmons of North Carolina, demo-
crat. and the general discussion Of
the measure will be well under way
before the close Of the week. The
bill was taken up on Thursday of
last week and made the unfinished
business. Chairman McCumber Of
the finance committee discussed the
bill in general.
While the Senate is wrestling
with the tariff bill. the finance
committee Is expected to deal with
the soldiers bonus bill. The re-
publican members OF the commit
tee at a preliminary meeting yes
terday determined in general
way to report out measure SINH
lar to the House bill. but with
that the Senate committee Will
seek to finance the bonus through
the issue of short-term certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness, pending the
receipt of money from the allied
nations on their war Indebtedness
to the United States. 1t may be
that it will be necessary to place
any legislation looking to raising
revenue for the payment OF the
bonus In the tariff bill, as revenue
measures must originate in the
House and that body would resent,
it is said, any effort on the part OF
the Senate to place in the bonus
bill, which Is not a revenue-rais-
ing bill, provision for raising
money to meet the payments.
The republicans of the Senate in
party conference last week voted
20 to 3 to pass bonus bill at the
finance committee to report out
such a bill within a reasonable
time" 1t Is pretty well under
stood that as soon as the bonus
bill Is reported. the tariff bill Will
be laid aside while the Senate
takes up and disposes of the bonus
measure. Senator McCumber, chair
man of the finance committee, IS
favorable to this plan of procedure.
The Senate appropriations COM
mittee Is busily engaged, through
subcommittees. in dealing with the
Army and Navy appropriation biils.
Hearings on the Army bill were
underway all last week. An enort
will be made to increase the size
of the Army over the $4,000 men
provided for in the House bill: 1t is
expected that a number OF In
creases will be provided. also in
the Navy bill as 1t Is reported
from the Senate committee.
Senator Capper, chairman OF the
Joint committee on public schools
in the District, probably will get
the Joint committee together this
week to draft it's report to the two
houses Of Congress. He also VIII
seek to have the Senate pass the
so-called compulsory education and
school census bill
Chairman Phipps Of the confer
ence committee on the District ap-
preparation bill expects that the
conference on that measure will
conclude its work this week. The
so-called Jones rider, dealing with
the fiscal relations of the District.
and one or two other items in the
bill are causing the delay.
Senate passed. last week, the
state and justice appropriation
bill. and sent that measure to con-
The proposal to deport the Rus
sian general, Semenoff, from the
United States, and the status of
the present Russian ambassador,
NJ, Bakmeteff, probably will be
discussed on the floor Of the Senate
by Senator Borah, chairman of the
committee on education and labor.
which has been holding hearings
on Semenoff.