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Show CONGRESS TAKES UP LOAD Appropriations Bills and Other Measures Meas-ures Will Cause Busy Time. Washington. Congress on Monday entered into the peak load period with only twenty-eight days left and appropriation appro-priation bills and legislation jammed up. The final money bills, the army and navy supply measures, with the diplo-. matic and rivers and harbors appropriations appro-priations are to come before the house, while the senate plans to take up the postoffice and sundry civil measures. Republican leaders are beginning be-ginning to be dubious of getting through. . To hasten action on the appropriations appropria-tions bills,, the Fordney emergency tariff bill is to be given what Republicans Repub-licans say will be its "last chance" in the senate. Naval disarmament also is to come up prominently In the senate. Immigration exclusion legislation is to be considered by the senate immi-' gration committee. Reapportionment of the house on the basis of the 1920 census will come before be-fore the senate census committee, "in its consideration of the house bill retaining re-taining the present house membership of 435. Provision for more hospitals for disabled dis-abled service men is expected to be made by the house through passage of a bill to establish additional, hospitals. |