Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-10

WASHINGTON, June S.-Com.
gress ended it's six months session
last night in an atmosphere Of con-
troversy and turmoil characteristic
Of the bitter dissension which has
marked it's proceedings from the
start.
western senators and representa-.
tives in the final hours of the SEES.
sion fought and lost a desperate
fight for legislation to relieve the
farmer and to reform the reclama-
ton policy of the government.
Many other measures, including
the bill authorizing construction Of
eight new cruisers and moderniza.
ton of battleships, and the def.
cheney appropriation bill, carrying
funds to begin operation of the DO.
nus law and for many other pur.
poses, failed in the final crush OF
legislation when the session ended
automatically at p. m.
Not only did the deficiency bill go
down in defeat in the race against
time but a special resolution passed
in the last five minutes by the house
to make the bonus appropriation
available regardless, was lost in the
senate.
Republican leaders declared tina.
only a special session of congress
could provide the necessary funds
for the initial costs Of the compen.
sation measure.
Coolidge Veto Sticks
The deficiency bill itself was block.
ed at the last minute by Senator
Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, because
of the omission of a reclamation ap.
preparation proposed by him and ac-
'tion on the emergency bonus reso.
lution was prevented by objections
by Senators Borah, Republican,
Idaho, and King, Democrat, Utah.
The postal salaries increase bill,
passed by both senate and house by
almost unanimous votes, also went
by the board when President Cool
idge vetoed it on the ground that it
was "extravagant." No effort to
call it up for repassage was made
in the short time remaining.
A renewal of the Teapot Dome de-
bate in the senate, growing out Of a
futile effort by Senator Walsh, OF
Montana, to secure approval of the
majority report of the oil commit
tee, tied up business at that end Of
the capitol most of the afternoon.
The house cleaned up many minor
bills but spent most of the day quar-
relling over the reclamation legis.
lation, which had been attached by
the senate to the deficiency bill.
The principal features Of the admin.
istration's reclamation plan finally
were accepted but other changes
were made to which the senate would
not agree.
Among the mourners over the un.
usually painful demise of the session
was the senate Daugherty commir.
tee, whose plans to resume sessions
in midsummer went awry because
Chairman Brookhart failed to obtain
opportunity to call up an authorizing
resolution drafted for that purpose.
Coolidge at Capitol
An hour before the final fall of
the gaVels on the presiding officers
desks in senate and house, President
Coolidge went to his room in the
capitol to affix his signature to last
minute legislation. He signed
number of bills and received there
the senate and house committees ap-
pointed to notify him of the ad.
journment.
After it had disposed of deficiency
bill and it's reclamation rider, the
house twiddled it's thumbs during
the last half hour of the session but
in the senate partisan strife ccn
tributed its dramatic note until the
very end.
Senator Walsh tried early in the
day to secure action on the oil re-
port but Senator Spencer, Repub-
l;"an, Missouri, objected to vote
until he had opportunity to state at
length his objections to it. Despite
Democratic charges of filibuster.
he talked for more than two hours
and when he had finished Senator
Norbeck, Republican. South Dakota,
obtained the floor to make a fight
for farm relief.
No sooner had the South Dakota
senator moved to attach q wheat ex-
port bounty provision to pending
house bill, however, than Senator
Smoot, Republican, Utah, launched
into speech of more than half
hour on the financial record of the