New Britain herald., 1926-12-07
AVALANCHE OF NEW
 |. BILLS PRESENTED
Congress Also Listens to PreSi-
 dents Recommendations
TRIBUTE TO JUNGLE JOE"

ute to Former Speaker-Resolu
 tions Presented Wagner Holds
 Reception in Senate.
 Washington, Dec. 2 R-Already heading into traffic jam on the second day of it's new session, con- gress was given new list of things to think about today by President Coolidge.
 Following his custom of last year, MT. Coolidge sent his message to Capitol Hill by messenger. and it was read by clerks in senate and house shortly after noon.
 At the same time he added to the crowded senate calendar more than 1000 nominations to public of fee, including many postmasters throughout the country. -
 Early Adjournment
 Receipt of the presidential mes sage was the chief business of the day in senate and house. While It's committees worked on the appro- priation bills the house agreed to early adjournment out of respect for Uncle Joe Cannon. The senate went ahead with the resolution questioning the qualifications of Senator Gould of Maine first on the calendar.
 Tho brevity Of the house session did not preclude members from adding materially to the thousands of bills already awaiting action. Among the new proposals was the sessions first plan for settlement of the farm relief question. It was introduced by Representative Nc I<eon, democrat, Oklahoma, and was designed to standardize the produc- ton of cotton, wheat and other farm products whel. a surplus causes an unfair return"
 But Little Attention
 Senate and house presented col orless scene as the clerks intoned the presidential message. Most Of the members were present, but many talked In undertones to colleagues while others drifted in and out, pre- ferring to read the presidential ut terances from the printed record. Now and then there was applause for some salient announcement in the message.
 In the senate there was so much confusion that Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, interrupted the reading to ask for "order on the republican side" After that, there was less noise, but apparently no more attention.
 Senator Elect Wagner of New York held an impromptu reception in a corner of the chamber, with Senator Copeland doing the honors. When the presidents remarks about cotton were read. Senator Heflin of Alabama made copious notes.
 House More Attentive
 The house was more attentive and more generous in its applause. The first handclapping came from the republican benches when the house clerk read MT. Cooldge's tribute to the protective tariff. But on the democratic side there was only silence.
 At the first mention of the treas ury surplus, members on both sides leaned forward in their seats. There was applause from the republicans for the proposal for a tax credit.
 Scattering handclaps on the re- publican side of the house support ed the presidents stand that the government must not enter the price fixing business to help the farmer.
 When the reading was an hour under way and only half completed, republicans and democrats alike grew restless. But both sides of the chamber came to life a few moments later to applaud MT. Coolidge's view that government bureaus should be reduced.
 Poison Gas Treaty
 SollCluSlOu Ol the reading lQ the senate let down the bars for the first time this season for introduc- tion of legislation and there was an immediate scramble for recognition.
 Chairman Borah of the foreign re- lations committee got the floor momentarily and announced he would bring up the poison gas treaty tomorrow.
 "Unclc Joe" Memorials
 Uncle Joe Cannon, who during his forty-siX years in the house voted for as many resolutions of regret as any man who ever served there, was himself the object of formal tribute by his former colleagues.
 Members of all faiths joined in voting Uncle Joe a distinguished statesman, a. master of logic and wit, and great and representative citizen of the American republic.
 In honoring the memory of the former speaker by adjourning, the house added to it's tribute, because adjournment for a man who died out