Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-03
CONGRESS MEETS
EARLY TO SPEED Up
FINAL LEGISLATION
Adjournment at 3. P. M.
Voted-Many Proposals to
Be Left Unsettled.
PRESIDENT TO SIGN
MEASURES AT CAPITOL
Last Minute Action Is Sought on
D. c. Utilities and Retirement
and Radio Bills.

The first session of the SiXty-nntl
Congress ends at 3 O'Clock this after
noon.
Members of both houses will e
back to their homes to fight for re
nomination and for e-electiOn mex
Fall. The entire membership of the
House is 10 be elected and one-thirC
of the Senate.
When the Senate met at 10 o'clocl
this morning. Senator Curtis, the Re
publican leader. reported from the ap
preparations committee the adjourn.
ment resolution, which had all eady
been passed by the House. with ar
amendment providing that the Senate
should sit as court of impeachment OF
November 10 in the trial of Judge
George w. English. Federal judge fol
the eastern district of Illinois. The
resolution provided for adjournment
sine die of Congress at pm. today
The resolution WAS promptly passed
by the Senate and sent to the House
=. where the Senate amendment was con
Cured in.
Both Senate and House met at 10
am. today. two hours earlier than
the usual meeting time. in order to
permit both houses to put the finish
ing touches on legislation coming
from conference committees and upon
bills which one or the other house
had already passed
Coolidge to Visit Capitol.
President Coolidge plans to go to
the Capitol this afternoon to sign last
minute bills before the adjournment.
He signed three important measures
Yesterday. sent him by Congress: The
administration bill creating CO.
operative marketing division in the
Department of Agriculture-the only
farm legislation which has come
from the present session-the war
veterans bill and the Army aviation
bill
The President early this afternoon
signed the second deficiency appropria-
ton bill. carrying a total of $51 ,000.-
600. The measure includes an ap-
preparation for beginning of construc-
ton of public buildings in Washing
ton and also includes an appropria-
tion of $500, 900 for prohibition en-
forcement.
Senate Has Night Session.
The radio bill got tangled in the
legislative snarl in the Senate as the
hour approached for adjournment. and
the Senate put through hurriedly a
temporary eXpedient in the form of a
resolution providing that no licenses
shall be issued for longer than 80 days
to broadcasting stations. and no
licenses for any other kind of station
for longer than two years. The reso-
lutiOn then went the I1OllSp
The House yesterday afternoon
shelved until December 8 the bill in
creasing the salaries of Federal
judges. In the Senate Chairman
Borah of the foreign relations COM
mittee obtained unanimous consent
for the reconsideration of the Lau-
same treaty between the United
States and Turkey, when Congress
reassembles after the Summer recess.
The treaty may be considered in open
executive session. Senator Borah in
dicated.
Although the House was not in ses-
sion last night the Senate met at s
O'Clock and continued at work until
J pm.
Prior to its dinner-hOur recess the
Senate at an executive session con
firmcd a number of nominations but
failed to ratify the League of Nations
treaty to outlaw the use Of poisonous
gas in time OF war. AZ n result it's
sponsors feared it would not be ap-
proved.
The Senate also completed action
on the measure to increase the pen
sions of Civil and Mexican War vet.
Grams and their dependents, sending
1t to the President and passed, among
other bills, two House proposals de-
signed to curb patronage evils.
1t also received a long list OF nomi-
nations from President Coolidge
VetOes Oil Lease Bill.
The President Informed Congress
that he had vetoed a bill to authorize
oil and gas mining leases on unallot-
ted land within executive order India
reservations.
Among the measures passed by the
a Senate last night were the following:
\ resolution requesting the new
board of mediation to attempt set
tlement of the labor dispute between
the Western Maryland Railroad and
It's engineers and tiremen.
A bill not passed by the House ALL
thorizing Colorado, Nebraska and Wy
oming to agree among themselves on
the apportionment of water from the
North Platte River and other streams
in which the States are jointly inter
ested, the agreement not to he binding
until approved by the three State
Legislatures.
Favors Lease of Islands.
A House bill to carry into effect the
treaty between the United States and
the loyal Shawnee Indians. signed
October IA. 1868. and authorizing ap
preparation of s463,000 for Indian
property destroyed by the Govern
ment.
4 House bill authorizing the lease
of islands off the coast of Alaska fol
fur farming, amended to limit the
lease to 10 years and the area to sc
square miles.
Several committees have been au.
thorized to function during the
recess. The Senate campaign fund
committee is expected to conduct
hearings here and elsewhere thruogh
much of the Summer and Fall
the House appropriations commit
tee received authority yesterday
to meet during the recess to prepare
, routine bills for speedy action; the
" House ways and means COMMITTEES
already had arranged to get an early
start on legislation looking to the
windinG-un of the alien property Gus.
todianS affairs. and the House com
merce committee will meet early t.
N'ontinued on pare 2 CoIup,p ~