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Show mnaamMnMMBHnMHUiHaMnHi SHORT SESSION OF CONGRESS BEGINS PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING 18 FIRST TO GIVE UNU8UAL SPEECH TO DODY. Urges Senate to Make Remaining Three Months of Wilson Admlnlstra. tlon a Fruitful Time. Heavy Work Ready for Members. Washington. Congress Is again In session, tho two houses meeting nt noon on December 0, Speaker Glllott calling the house to order promptly nt .noon, whllo Vice-President Mnrshall let hls'guvel'full ii moment inter. A new precedent In American history his-tory wus established when Presidentelect President-elect Hnrdlng addressed tho sennte us u member of tlmt body. Ho told his colleagues In n brief, Informal In-formal talk tlmt whllo hu would always al-ways be mindful of tho senate's place nnd responsibility In the government, ho would also remember, nnd expect the sennto tu remember, that he was president. Harding requested co-opcrntlou, declaring de-claring thnt it wns not necessary for cither the congress or the executlvu to surrender to the other. He ulso urged the senate to make tho remaining three months of the Wilson administration a "fruitful time" Instead of so much waste. Ills speech wns made at the suggestion sug-gestion of Senntor Lodge, Itepublleun leader, who usked the chair to recognize recog-nize tho "senator from Ohio." This short session bus been looked on In prospect as n rather routlno session, ses-sion, devoted largely to pnssngo of the fourteen appropriation bills. x Hut Indications In-dications are that it will be crowded with other important business. Not only will the muss of routlno bo tre mendous, but there Is to bo consider able foundation laying for tho Sixty-seventh Sixty-seventh congress, when tho Ilepubll-cans, Ilepubll-cans, In complete control of both legislative leg-islative and executive branches of tho government, purpose an ambitious program. pro-gram. Here is some of tho work which this session will be culled on to dlsposo of: New Bills. Fourteen appropriation bills. Itenppolntment of representation In thu houso of representatives, based on tho 10'JO census. ' , A nntlonnl budget bill. A bill to amend tho Volstead prohibition pro-hibition enforcement law to mako prohibition pro-hibition less stringent. A bill to make the Volstead law moro stringent, nnd to give the prohibition commissioner u bigger force, more money und wider powers. A demand for u sweeping investigation investiga-tion of prohibition enforcement. Some measure of tax revision, although al-though tho main program of tax" nnd tariff revision Is to bo undertaken at tho next session, according to present plans of Itepublleun lenders. A soldier bonus bill. Measures to lower tho cost of living. liv-ing. Proposed amendments of tho rail-rond rail-rond law. A treaty with Japan covering land ownership by Japanese In California und other states. A treaty with Colombia, settling the old controversy over tho Panama canal nnd establishing American oil interests inter-ests in Colombia. .Measures to Improve housing conditions. condi-tions. Proposals to curb the power of grain exchungos to control the. price of wheat und other grains. A Inrgo number of welfare measures. meas-ures. In addition sumo now luvestlgn-I luvestlgn-I loirs doubtless will bo undertaken. The senate campaign fund Investigation committee is uxpoctcd to miiko u partial par-tial report, and will ulso contlnuo Its nijulry. Having iisked how candidates nnd parties ruls?d the money, tho 'ommlttee now will ask how they spent t A final report may ulso be nmdo on the Newberry election case. |