Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-11
COMMITTEE WORK
FOR EXTRA SESSION
IS STARTED FRIDAY
Republicans Have Majority
Of Is in House and 10 in
Senate on Basis of Final
Unofficial Figures

COHSreSS CdlISu ny EIGS1uSuC f1dT-
ding to convene in extra session
November 20, members Of the house
appropriations committee were
scheduled to meet today with the
aim of having several of the appro-
priation bills ready for the house
by the beginning of the regular ses-
sion Immediately following on De.
cember 4.
During the two weeks of the ex.
ira session, the call for which was
issued by the president last night
in accordance with an announce.
ment at the White House early this
week, the house is expected to de-
vote it's attention to the ship sub.
sidy bill while subcommittee Of its
appropriation committee work on
the supply bills, which form the
most important task of the regular
session.
1t was with q view to getting an
earlier start in an effort to clean UP
important legislation, including the
appropriation bills, by next March 4.
when the sixty-seventh congress
must adjourn sine die, that the call
for an extra session which the presi-
dents proclamation said was made
necessary by public interests, has
been generally approved by Repub-
lican leaders in congress.
While there has been no definite
outline Of the nature Of the presi-
dents recommendations to be pre-
sented to the session, the senate has
several important bills pending for
action, including the Aver anti
lynching bill, already passed by the
house, and it is considered probable
that the executive will make some
definite recommendatio mas to
changes in the transportation act
at the outset of the session.
Postponement of action on the
ship subsidy bill was agreed to by
the president at the last session on
the assurances of party leader that
it would be taken up without delay
when congress reconvened.
President Harding's call, set forth
in the usual form of proclamation,
declared the extra session was made
necessary by public interests. The
text of the proclamation follows:
Whereas public interests require
that the congress Of the United
States should be convened in extra
session at IL o'clock noon, on the
twentieth day of November, 1922, to
receive such communications as may
be made by the executive;
''Now, therefore, I, Warren Ct.
Harding, president Of the United
States Of America, do hereby pro,
claim and declare that an extraordl-
nary occasion requires the cor gress
Of the United States to convene In
extra session at the capitol in the
city of Washington on the 10th day
Of November, 1922, at IL o'clock
noon, of which all persons who shall
at that time be entitled to act aa
members thereof are hereby reQuir.
ed to take notice.
"In witness whereof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be az
fixed;
Done at The city Of Washington,
this 9th day in the year Of our Lord,
one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-five, and Of the independence
of the United States, the one hun
dred and forty-seventh.
WARREN G. HARDING"
FINAL FIGURES SHOW
SLIGHT G. o. p. MAJORITIES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1o.-There
will be twenty more Republicans
than Democrats in the next house OF
representatives, and eleven more Re-
publicans than Democrats in the new
senate, unless results indicated by
practically complete returns are over
thrown.
In the house the Republican ma
jority over the combined Democratic
and scattering vote will be seventeen,
while in the senate it will be ten.
In the present congress, the Re-
publicans have a house plurality OF
1876 over the Democrats and a ma
jority of 165 over all. In the senate
the Republican majority over the
Democrats is "a, with no scattering
votes.
The lineup Of the new house,
heretofore listed as including 225 Re-
publicans and 207 Democrats was
changed to 226 Republicans and ZO6
Democrats today through change
in technical pafty utilization by one
of the successful candidates in Tues
days election. Representative Guy
E. Campbell, Of the Thirty-sizsh
Pennsylvania district, who in the
past two campaigns has run sr
Republican-Democrat, but who has
been carried heretofore on the Off
cial house membership roll as @
Democrat, requested the house clerk
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Miss Martha Berry