The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-03
|sENATE EXPECTED| | ID GET ID WORK
Legislation Probable In Spite Of Incomplete Committee
 Organization

WARRINGTON. Jan. 2.-Congress will come back tomorrow from it's Christmas recess ready to begin the serious work of the session.
 With committees of both the House and Senate organized the way Is cleared for republican leaders to press for enactment of legislation recommended by President Coolidge in his annual message. They will seek to wind tip the work of the ses- sion in time for adjournment just before the republican national con- ventfon meets five months hence.
 While the Senate still is dead- locked over the election of chair man of the interstate commerce com mittee, majority leaders are hopeful that this problem will be solved opS way or another within few days. Balloting for a chairman will result tomorrow with little prospect of a decision, but there appears to be growing sentiment for perNitting the committee to function without the formal election of a hsad 50 that the Senate may proceed with other busi- ness.
 Other important measures to come before the House will be the an- nual appropriation bill on which sub committees have been working dur ing the holiday recess. Until the fiNst of these are ready early next week. the House will mark time. during the delivery of some prepared speeches. Speeches scAeaaled.
 Among those to be delivered to- morrow is one by Representative republican, Massachusetts. on the anthracite situation, another by Upshaw of Georgia upon the Sobriety," and a third by Pedro Guevara, who win discuss Philippine independence.
 Consideration of tax legislation, the most important question that will come before Congress at the session, will be resumed tomorrow by tho House ways and means committee, which has agreed on a program of studying administrative provisions of the Mellon bill before acting on the soldiers bonus or rate schedules in the revenue bill. Committee mem- bers said another ten-day or two weeks would be required to complete consideration of the administrative features. t
 Meantime republican members of the House, who are former service men. expect to force the issue on the bonus. They are circulating a peti- tion for a republican party confer ence on January 10, with view to having the majority membership in- struct the ways and means com mittee to report the bonus bill ahead of the tax revision measure. Some republican leaders have expressed op- position to the conference plSn,l but those back of the movement insist they will go ahead with their pro- gram.
 Democrats Discuss Tax.
 Democratic members of the ways and means committee, at confer ence today, in which Representative Garrett of Tennessee. the minority leader, participated. discussed the tax question in a general way. Views as to policy were expressed but no decision as to tfe minority program was agreed upon.
 Thus far there has been no cali for meeting of the House inter- state commerce committee. which handles railroad legislation, al- though Chairman Winslow said today the committee probably would get together next week. A wide range ot bills for the amendment of the trans portation act have been referred to this committee. asaa
 Revision of the House rules. de- manded hy the republican insurgents and agreed to by majority leaders as a way to the <6reaking of the re- cent speakershir deadlock, will be taken up again by the rules com mittee with a view to making a re- port to the House by January 14.
 Before this committee is pending Frear republican of Wisconsin. Tor the resolution of Representative the investigation of Governor Gen eral Woods administration in the Philippines Besides this inquiry a number of others are proposed in the House and Senate, including cam paign expenditures in the Texas senatorial election In November, 1922; diploma mills; expenditures of the federal farm loan board and the Russian ouAstion