The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-03
CONGRESS NOW
Is MOVING TO
ADJOURNMENT
Busy Day Is Expected in the
National Congress as it
Ncars End
VOTE SOME BILLS
Big Appropriation Bills Safe
ly Cleared From the Leg
islative Jam
BIG BILLS IN JAM

Washington, March 3.-The
Sixty-Eighth Congress entered
the stretch of its final session
today with all of its remaining
projects for major legislation
LOSING ground In their race
against time.
The appropriations program
was virtually complete by early
afternoon but general agriculture
legislation, the Muscle Shoals
Bill, the Champion prohibition
reorganization measure. the mi
gratory bird law, and virtually
all the other legislative proposals.
the leaders had hoped to see
written on the statute books be-
fore final adjournment at noon
tomorrow seemed to be caught in
tangle of opposition from
WHICH they could not be cxtri-
Gated.
As a consequence, private bills
and measures of lesser import
arce occupied the attent ION of
both Senate and House during
much Of the day and promised to
keep them busy until late to-
night.
Washington, March 3.--{By the A.
P.)--The somewhat lcisurely fashion
in which Congress has neared the
adjournment hour at noon tomorrow,
promised to give way today to ses
sions extending we'll into the night
for both houses in the last minute
rush to clear the calendar of all
bills having any chance of enactment.
With all of the regular appropria-
tion bills safely cleared off the leg
islative jam, the Senate and House
set what was declared to be almost
a precedent for both by adjourning
without night sessions yesterday and
with only few hours remaining
before sine die adjournment. The
Senate called it a day shortly after
seven o'clock after Senator Pepper,
Republican of Pennsylvania, had
called up the house branch banking
bill as the unfinished business, SEN
ator Curtis of Kansas, the Republi-
can leader declaring mo Senator be-
lieves this bill can be disposed Of,
finally obtaining an adjournment un-
til eleven o'clock today.
The House fixed its converting
hour today at ten o'clock when it
adjourned yesterday at 1880 p. m.
After completing round days work
in which a dozen measures were
passed under suspension of rules.
in addition to acceptance Of the Sen
ate's amendment to the rivers and
harbors bill and adoption of the con-
ference report on the Interior bill.
and also joined in putting through
a bill appropriating $1O,0O0,OO0 for
additional hospital facilities for
World War vetetans.
Big Deficiency Bill
The only one of the important
money bills still held up is the final
deficiency measure. The dispute be-
tween the Senate and House on this
measure arose from the elimination
in conference of Senate amend
ment to appropriate $8,00O,O00 for
construction of public buildings
throughout the country, heretofore
authorized, the Senate refusing to
accept the conference report.
Legislation in the Senate to carry
out the cooperative marketing inves-
tigatiOn of the Presidents agricul-
ture conference. now faces practi-
cally certain failure. The House in
passing the Dickinson Cooperative
bill already has once re-
jected the Capper-H -Haugen measure
reported yesterday by the Senate
committee. and there ap-
pears no chance of either bill be-
coming law.