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Show CONGRESS 10 BERIMED NOVEMBER TWENTIETH IS TENTATIVE TEN-TATIVE DATE SET BY PRESIDENT PRESI-DENT FOR OPENING Agreement it Reached Between Harding Hard-ing And Legislative Leaden For Extra Session Of Congress Washington. A tentative agreement agree-ment has been reached between President Presi-dent Harding and legislative leader to lummon Congress back to Washington Wash-ington In extra session on November 20, thirteen dny after the eonntry decides on the political complexion of the new Congress at the polls, it was learned Friday. The decision resulted from a series ot conferences the president had held with Republican leaders at th White House this week at which a fairly comprehensive program for the expiring ex-piring C7th Congress was agreed upon. The call probably will be issued on November 10. It Is the present plan of the White House to drive the dying 67th Congress Con-gress full tilt right up to March 8, the date of its legal expiration, and then not call the new 68th into session ses-sion until the regular winter session begins In December. Mr. Harding desires to get Congress back on a basis of "normalcy." This embraces the elimination of the almost al-most continuous extra sessions which Washington has witnessed since the beginning of the Wilson administration administra-tion In 1018. It is the president's opinion that Congress should not ha in Washington all the time us It has been for the last ten years. He thinks Congress should spend five or Bix months here and then go home. At the president's direction, Senator Sena-tor Warren, of Wyoming, and Representative Rep-resentative Madden, both Republicans, Chairmen of the senate and house appropriation committees, are remaining remain-ing over in Washington and working continuously to get the appropriation measures in shape for Immediate presentation pre-sentation to Congress in December. The president plans to go to the Pacific Pa-cific coast and thence to Alaska, starting start-ing next May or June to be gone several sev-eral months, and he cannot well go if Congress is sitting in the capltol. He thinks next summer will be an ideal time to get Washington "back to normalcy." nor-malcy." j. |