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Show i CONGRESS QUITS i Lav makers to take up campaigning cam-paigning IN THEIR HOME STATES President Harding Will Call Special Session During Month of November Novemb-er to Consider Important Matters Wiisliinton. With members of both liaises straining impatiently to jret d'wn.v from Washington and buck to iolitic:il fence-mending at home, the second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress drew to u close Friday. Congressmen are now on their way home to inaugurate a hectic six-weeks-ampaign for re-election on Nov. 1. There were genuine sighs of relief Friday on the part of Republican an Democrats alike over t lie closing of the tumultuous session which began on Dec. 5 la&t. The recess, for it will amount to that in which President Harding intends in-tends calling an extra session the middle mid-dle of November, will be the first real rest the Sixty-Seventh Congress has had since President Harding came into in-to power on March 4, 3921. Within a month after his inauguration he called cal-led a special session. Kxcept for a ten-day recess? at the close of last November No-vember Congress "has been steadily in session ever since. Prais-ed by its Republicans as one of the most constructive Congresses in recent history, and just as much condemned con-demned by the Democrats as a "do nothing" Congress, 'the Sixty-seventh leaves Washington in a state of nervous ner-vous apprehension over the fate that ttillLS tne CUL11C 111C1110C1 amp OL LUC bouse and one-third of the senate on Nov. 7. The Republicans are going home to praise the record of this Congress and assure their constituents that a great era of prosperity lies just ahead as a result of the new tariff bill. They will also stres-s heavily the "business administration" ad-ministration" inaugurated by the Republican Re-publican administration. The Democrats are going to tell their constituents that the new tariff bill is to raise the cost of living in the United States some $300,000,000 a year and they have organized a flying fly-ing squadron of speakers to tear down the business arguments of the Republicans. Repub-licans. One fact the Democrats will stress is that the Republicans 'closed this session of Congress with a deficit defi-cit of $650,000,000 staring them in the face reported by Secretary of the Treasury JlelLon as one of the chief causes of the bonus veto. The tariff of 1922 will form one of the chief, if not the chief campaign issues is-sues for the next six weeks, it was conceded Friday by leaders on both Bides. The ten outstanding features of the second session of the 67th Congressional Congres-sional record : 1. Inauguration of the budget system. sys-tem. 2. Agricultural credits acts, extending extend-ing financial relief to farmers. 3. Ratification of the treaties growing grow-ing out of the Washington conference. 4. Renewal of the three per cent immigration law. 5. Passage .of the Capper-Tincher anti-grain gambling bill. 6. The tariff act of 1022, imposing the highest 'protective rates since the Payne-Aldrich bill. 7. Rejection of the soldiers' bonus, after a veto by President Harding. 8. Legislation aimed at stabilizing the coal industry. 9. Creation of an American debt funding commission to collect the $11,-000,000,000 $11,-000,000,000 foreign indebtedness. 10. The seating of Senator Truman H. Newberry of Jlichigan. |