The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-22
Congress Adjourned This After.
noon at 2 O'clock.
Only a Handful of Members
Present at the Close.
HOME FOR FALL ELECTIONS
Members to Give Attention to
Fence Making Now.
First Real Vacation Since Hard
ing Took Office.

Washington, Sept. 22.-The Sixty
seventh congress wound up its session
this afternoon and adjourned sine die.
The closing session, attended by a
corporars guard of members of both
houses, was featured only by the evil
dent desire to finish up and get home
as quickly possible.
Members of both houses strained
impatiently to get away from Wash
ington and back to political fence
making at home, as the second session
of the Sixty-seventh congress drew to
close.
BY nightfall, members of congress
will be on their way home to inaug-
urate a hectic six weeks campaign
for reelection on November z. final
adjournment of the session having
been agreed upon by the senate this
afternoon and the hour set at p. m.
in accordance with a similar agrees
ment by the house.
Harding Signs Bills.
President Harding arrived at the.
capitol a quarter of an hour before
the time set for final adjournment
and at his desk in the presidents room
began affiXing his signature to last
minute legislative measures.
There were genuine signs of relief
on the part of Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike over the closing of the
tumultuous session which began on
December 5, last
The approaching recess, for it will
amount to that in which President
Harding intends calling in extra ses-
sion the middle of November. will be
| the first real rest the Sixty-seventh
congress has had since President
Harding came into power on March
a, 1921. Within a month after his
Inauguration, he called a special ses-
sion. Except for a ten-day recess at
the close of last November, congress
has been steadily in session ever
/ since.
Republicans Praise 1t.
Praised by Republicans, as one of
the most constructive congress In
recent history. and just as much
damned by the Democrats as a "do
nothing congress" the Sixty-seventh
ileaves Washington in a stateNof nerv-
i Gus apprehension over the fate that
awaits the entire membership of the
4 house and one-third of the senate on
4 November z.
The Republicans are going home to
praise the record of this congress and
assure their constituents that a great
era of prosperity lies just ahead as a
result of the new tariff bill. They
will also stress heavily the business
administrat ton inaugurated by the
Republican administration. ~,
Democrats to Fight.
The Democrats are going home to
tell their constituents that the new
tariff bill is to raise the cost of living
| in the United States some S20O, ,O0O, 900
| a year and they have organized fly
ing squadron of speakers to tear down
the business arguments of the Re-
publicans. One fact that Democrats
will stress is. that the Republicans
closed this session of congress with
a. deficit of 65,000.000 staring them
| in the face-reported by Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon as one of the
chief causes of the bonus veto,
The tariff of 1922 will form one OF
| the chief, if not the chief, campaign
issues for the next six weeks, it was
conceded today by leaders on both
sides.
Ten Outstanding Features.
The ten outstanding features of the
second session of the Sixty-seventh
record.
l. Inauguration of the budget sys-
tenn.
2. Agricultural credits acts. extend
| ing financial relief to farmers.
g. Ratification of the treaties
growing out of the Washington con-
| ference.
4 Renewal of the per cent immi-
grafton law.
| 5. Passage of the Capper-Tincher
anti-grain gambling bill.
| 6. The tariff act of 1922 imposing
| Payne-Aldrich bill.
| z. Rejection of the soldiers bonus
after a veto by President Harding.
| s. Legislation aimed at stabilizing
| the coal industry.
| .. Creation of an American debt
funding commission to collect the
$11, 900. 900, 900 foreign Indebtedness.
II. Gewberry, of Michigan.
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