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Show ISMEIITH. i I CONGRESS QUITS i .AW MAKERS TO TA K E UP CAM- PAIGNING IN THEIR HCiV.E ! STATES President Harding Will Call Special i Session During Month of Novemb- j er to Consider Important ' Matters j i Washington With members of both h'tises straining impatiently to get away from Washington and buck to political fence-mending at home, tl.e second session of the Sixty-seventh Congress drew to a close Friday. Congressmen are now on their way home to inaikgurate a hectic six-weeks campaign for re-election on Nov. 1. There were genuine sighs of relief Friday on the part of Republican an-. Iemocrats alike over the closing of the tumultuous session which began on Dec. 5 last. The recess, for It will amount tr ! that in which President Harding in- I tends calling an extra session the middle mid-dle of November, will be the first real rest the Sixty-s-eventh Congress has had since President Harding came into in-to power on March 4, 1021. Within a month after his Inauguration he called cal-led a special session. Except for a ten-day recess at the close of last November No-vember Congress has been steadily in session ever since. Praised by its Republicans as one of the most construct. ve 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 'he fate that awaits the entire membership jf the house 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 stres3 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 n 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 Mellon as one of the chief causes of the bonus veto. The tariff of 1022 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 sides. 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, extend-. ing finuncial 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. 6. Passage of the Capper-Tincher anti-grain gambling bill. 6. The tariff act of 1022, Imposing1 the highest protective rates since the Payne-Aldrieh 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 TruiuaE H. Newberry of Michigan. |