Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 5 | Congress Fails to Enact Bills

i CONGRESS FAILS TO ENACT BILLS House Opposes Army Appropriation Appro-priation Measures and Adjournment Ad-journment to Monday Is Forced. WASHINGTON, June 30 Congress failed today in its ,iim to enact the remaining re-maining appropriation bills before adjournment ad-journment and to recess until next 1 Monday. Unexpected house opposition to the conference agreement or. the 76G.0O0,- i (mo army appropriation bill and obstruction ob-struction by hou-e Democrats to other measures forced adjournment of both the senate and house until tomorrow I after the senate had listened most of the dn. to debate on the league of nation na-tion With all the appropriation measure? needed July 1 to provide funds for many government agencies beginning the new fiscal year, leaders hoped to lear up all of the bills tomorrow and then adjourn until July 7. when President Presi-dent Wilson is expected to arrive with the German peace treaty. Of the five money bills left over, the naval appropriation measure carrying ! $616,000,000 and providing a naval personnel per-sonnel of 170,000 men, was the only lone completed today. Conference agreement.- were reached on all others, including reduction of the sundrv civil I bill from $775,000,000 to $605,000,000. The house worked on conference reports re-ports all day, with several hours of j spirited debate on the army measure which was returned t conference with its representatives instructed to insist ; that the appropriation for the air service serv-ice be limited tr $15,000,000. The I houso conferees previously had agreed to compromise the senate's $66,000.- I 000 appropriation for that purpose at , $4"."00.000. The senate planned a night session i to carry through the supply bills, but the handful of senators who returned I at 8 o'clock agreed to adjourn upon learning of the blockade in the house, where 1 "eniocratic objection to consideration consid-eration of the sundry civil and the Dis-trict Dis-trict of Columbia conference reports forced postponement of final action until tomorrow. Two important bills, the $26,000,000 'agricultural appropriation measure, carrying the rider repealing the day- light saving law October 26 and that ending government control of wires, expected to be effective July 31, were j sent late today to the White House. no