The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-03
CONGRESS, IN
FINAL SESSION.;
BILLS KILLED
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including new ENJOYS 20 Germany
md Austria after the peace treaties
In it's wake Congress leaves more
han fourteen thousand Enpassed
bills and resolutions, some 81 VIDE
Importance. Nearly 500 'publAc laws
we're passed by the Congress, or cx-
,luding Sundays and holidays, abou:
one law per day.
The final gavels will close . the
ubhc careers Of many veteran pub
ic r,au, including Uncle Joe,
aaron the former speaker, with
ais record of service in the House,
Rep Mondell of Wyoming, republi-
IAN floor leader; Senators Will
,ms, of Mississippi and Culberson
If Texas, both former dcHocratic
loor leaders, and others, some de-
Gated in the last elections and some
'ctiring voluntarily.
The closing Congress, in its rela-
ions with the President has been
acted for continuance OF executive
addresses to joint sessions. Mr.
Harding made half dozen of these,
chief among them being his prcsen-
tation Of the shipping legislation
February 80, 1922; the British debt
Funding agreement, with renewea
demand for a senate vote on the
shipping bill, last month; his discus
sion last August 10 Of the railroad
and coal strikes; his request for
postponement of the soldiers bonus
bill July IL, 1921 and his addresses
coincident with the opening OF SEES
sions of Congress.
Bloc Movement Born
The "bloc" movement was born
during the present Congress, with
organization of the Senate farm bloc
headed by former Senator Kenyon
republican, Iowa, with Senator Cap
per, republican Kansas as his sue,
cessor. 1t has been very active IN
passing farm legislation. The pro
gressive bloc was organized last De-
ceniber at the conference called by
Senator La Toilette. republican, Wis
cousin, and Rep. Huddleston, demo
crat, Alabama, but has never me:
again, although it promises to be
factor in the next Congress. A
war veterans bloc in the House also
was inaugurated recently.
An unusual flux of congressional
Investigations also have marked the
closing Congress, in both House and
Senate. Few were concluded. Several
will be prosecuted during the coming
recess and others in the new Con.
gress.
Many Investigations
Prominent among these investiga'
tons was those into Impeachment,
charges against AttorneyGenera
Daugherty; the Ford-Newberry sen
atorial election contest from Michi'
gan; the escape of Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft-dodger;
the West Virginia coal mine war
fare of 1921; American occupatior
Of Haiti and Santo Domingo; agrl
cultural conditions by the Lenroot
Anderson commissions; leases of ma
val oil reserves and into oil and gas
prices by the Senate manufacturer,
committee.
Other Investigations included chi
Muscle Shoals, Ala, power project
including Henry Ford's offer; tn
alleged dye lobby, treatment of wa
veterans, civil service and charge
of former Senator Watson, demo
crat, Georgia, that wholesale illega
executions of American soldiers o
the A. E. +. had occurred.
International affairs have been
prominent in the senate, with FIRE
quent discussions Of and interven,
tiCrs in immediate European devel
opments. Prominent among these was
the Senate resolution requesting re
,all of American troops from the
Rhine, which was followed in few
days by the Presidents Withdrawal
order. Efforts of Senator Borah, re
publican, Idaho, to initiate an in
ternational economic conference ais,
furnished several spectacular peri
DDS.
Some of the Achievements
A large number of treaties, mostly
of minor characters were rattle,
by the Senate, including the $25,
100000 Panama Canal settlement
with Columbia on April 20, 1921, the
German, Austrian and Hungaria:
peace treaties October IS, 1921, ant
the seven arms conference conven
tions in the spring of 1922 Their
was no, further action on the Yer
sailles of the three-power treat.
urged by France for her protection
against Germany. The treaty to re
llnquish American claim to the Isle
of Pines has gone over until tn,
next Congress.
Principal domestic legislation en-
acted by the Congress included: the
Fordney-McCumber tariff bill; revi
sion of the internal revenue laws;
the temporary, emergency tari:1
act; the reduction of the army tt
$4,000 men and the navy to $1,000
men; the 3 per cent immigratio!
qouta- restriction law; statute es
tablishing the federal budget sys
TEN; provision for federal contro
of cable landings; the Knox-Porte,
peace resolution; creation of tn
Allied Debt Commissions; the agri
cultural cooperative marketing lazy
the meat packer control act; reor
ganizatiOn of the Veterans Bureau
Strengthening of the prohibition
law by forbidding prescription o
beer; creation of the federal Goa
commission; authorization of "a ad
ditional federal judges; regulatio
ofsfuture grain grading; the fedora
maternity aid act; extension of fed
erel road aid; the China trade &C
and the resolution providing inter
changeable railroad mileage.
Little Liquidation, was vetoed b