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Show SHORT SESSION OF CONGRESS BEGINS .. ., PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING IS FIRST. TO GIVE UNUSUAL, SPEECH TO BODY. Urges Senate to - Make Remaining Three Months of Wilson Administration Administra-tion a Fruitful Time. Heavy , . .- Work Ready for Members. Washington. Congress Is again in session, the two houses hieeting at noon on December 0, Speaker Gillett calling the' house to order promptly at noon, while Vice-President Marshall let his gavel fall a moment fater. A new precedent in American history his-tory was established when Presidentelect President-elect Harding addressed the senate as a member of that body. He told his colleagues in a brief, Informal In-formal talk that while he would al- ways be mindful of the senate's place and responsibility in the government, he would also remember, and expect the senate to remember, that he was president. Harding requested co-operation, declaring de-claring that It was not . ecessary for either the congress or the executive to surrender to the other. ' He also urged the senate to make the remaining three months of the Wilson administration a "fruitful time" instead of so much waste. His speech was made at the suggestion sug-gestion of Senator Lodge, Republican leader, who asked the chair to recognize recog-nize the "senator from Ohio." This short session has been looke'd on In prospect as a rather routine session, ses-sion, de- oted largely to passnge of the fourteen up, oprlatlon bills. But indications in-dications are that it 'will be crowded with other iniportnnt business. Not only will the mass of routine be tremendous, tre-mendous, but there is to be considerable consider-able foundation laying for t' e Sixty-seventh Sixty-seventh congress, when the Republicans, Republi-cans, in complete control of both legislative leg-islative and executive brunches of , the government, purpose an ambitious program. pro-gram. Here Is some of the work which this session will be called on to dispose of: Fourteen appropriation bills. Reappointment of representation in Hid limiwA rf rpnrasimitn f I vis hnupfl nn the 1920 census. A national budget bill. A bill to amend the Volstead prohibition pro-hibition enforcement law to mnke prohibition pro-hibition less stringent. A bill to make the Volstead law more stringent, and to give the prohibition commissioner a bigger force, , more money tuld wider powers. A demand for a sweeping investigation investiga-tion of prohibition enforcement. Some measure of tax revision, although al-though the main program of tax and tariff revision is to-be undertaken at the,next session, according to present plans of Republican leaders. A soldier bonus bill. ' 1 Measures to lower the cost of living. liv-ing. Proposed amendments of the railroad rail-road law. A treaty with Japan covering land ownership by Japanese in California and other stales. ; A treaty with Colombia, settling the old controversy over the Tanaum canal and establishing American oil interests inter-ests In Colombia. , , ; l'rlsposiils to curb the power of grain exchanges to control the price of whent and other grains, |