Show WORK PILES UP FOR 4 ONLY SHORT TIME IS LEFT TO LABOR ON LEGISLATION LEGISLATION LEGISLATION LEGIS LEGIS- LATION MATTER After Holidays Congress Takes Up Work of Handling Mass of Bills and Appropriations I Washington With just a few weeks before it passes into history the Sixty eighth congress went back to work January 2nd after its holiday holiday holiday holi holi- day recesses with a great pressure of legislation facing it After having laid it aside long enough to pass within a single day more than bills and resolutions the he senate will get back to its con- con of Muscle Shoals under a unanimous consent agreement After this long-considered long problem the unanimous consent agreement agreement- that calling for a final linal vote on the Isle of Pines treaty will treaty will become op op- While the senate is dealing with these problems the mass or of annual appropriation bills passed by the louse louse will vili continue to pile up Four of them them the the agriculture interior naval and treasury treasury- treasury treasury-postoffice a ice are re awaiting senate action either on the floor loor or while house leaders plan to put through another the army measure within a short time Before taking up the war department department depart depart- ment bill the house will give attention attention attention atten atten- tion to bills on the unanimous consent consent con COIl sent calendar Taking a leaf out of or orthe the senates senate's book it is expected to pass a large mass of measures many of them private claims and bridge bills I Laying aside the Muscle question temporarily the senate will take up for final action President Coolidge's veto of the postal salary increase bill under an agreement calling for a vote by late Tuesday after sharply limited debate debate debate-a a rather rath rath- er unusual procedure in the senate senat 1 the senate postoffice committee will rush work on the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration measure for postal rate increases to meet the salary raises in the hope of having it ready before the senate reaches the veto on the executives executive's veto of the salary mea mea- sure Present plans are to bring in a temporary temporary tem tern rate increase measure to fill the gap until a permanent one can be worked out in committee This plan is expected to meet with pointed reference in debate on the veto Many senators having already charged ed that the tue whole effort Is to defeat the salary increases because it will willbe willbe willbe be impossible to put through a rate advance bill before March House leaders expect to adhere to their plan to rush the appropriation bills through and und they expect that after the last of these bills has been sent to the senate there will be e time for the consideration of a fair amount of general legislation How of it will get through in the final rush however is regarded as problematic cal |