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Show CONGRESS READY WITHJTWO BILLS WILL ASSIST PRESIDENT HARDING HARD-ING BY PASSAGE OF BILLS FOR INVESTIGATION Senator Borah Has Measure Ready For Labor Committee Covering Fact Finding in Nation's Coal Industry Washington. Steps were being taken in congress Monday to push through two of the measures recoup mended by President Harding for j meeting the strike situation. The house was prepared to pass this week a .bill setting up a federal commission com-mission to investigate every phase of i the coal mining industy in the hope j that such an inquiry will lay the i basis for permanent peace in this j strike beset industry. Such a bill was j to be introduced Monday by Chairman i Winslow of the interstate corumerc committee. Although the senate is taking a rest from the long tariff grind, the foreign relations committee met on the president's presi-dent's proposal for legislation giving federal courts power to protect the -treaty rights of alienjs so that the federal government could intervene and punish those responsible for violence such as that Herrin massacre. The bill of Senator Kellogg which incorporates the president's suggestion sugges-tion may be reported favorable Monday Mon-day or Tuesday, but it is not probable that the senate will act on it until next week, after the soldier bonus has been disposed of. Senator Borah, chairman of the senate sen-ate labor committee, said Monday he would try to get the labor committee providing for a fact finding agency in the coal industry. Borah's bill has been indorsed by the White House as being, in general, what the president desires in the way of legislation to secure se-cure reliable facts regarding how much money the coal operators are making, whether wages are right and whether prices are reasonable. Because the senate is pledged to take up the bonus, actual steps toward working out the legislative program asked by President Harding will be left to the house this week. But all the house intends to do, under present pres-ent plans of the Republican leaders, Is to pass the coal investigating bill. There is the same strong sentiment in the house as exists in the senate against making an attempt to enact legislation providing for a federal agency, financed by the treasury, to buy up coal and distribute it fairly in Interstate commerce. This was one of Harding's chief suggestions. |