SESSION ENDS

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 7

SESSION ENDS

IN AMERICAN CONGRESS. IMPORTANT BILLS JETTISONED. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYMOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ■WASHINGTON, June 7. Congress ended its six months' session automatically at seven o'clock tonight, when Senators and Eepresontatives fought-the last desperate battle on the question of giving relief to farmers. Many measures, including the Bill authorising the construction of cruisers and the modernising of battleships, and the Deficiency Appropriation Bill, carrying funds to begin operation of the Soldier' Bonus Law, and for other purposes, failed in the final crush j of legislation. A special resolution passed in the last five minutes by the House to make the bonus appropriation available was lost in the Senate. Republican leaders declare that only a special session of Congress could provide' funds for the initial cost of the bonus. [The Soldier Bonus Act, for which finance lias not been made available, was passed by both Houses over the Presidential veto. It was estimated that payment of the bonus would commit the nation to an average annual expenditure of 114,000,000 dollars for the next 20 years. Country interests have been pressing all the session for Legislature to come to the relief of agriculture.]

WASHING-UP MEASURES. NO DEPORTATION OF IMMIGRANTS. (BEOTEH'a TKLIOEAMB.) WASHINGTON, June- 7. Legislation approved by President Coolidge at the wind-up of Congress included the Foster Bill, creating a commission to. select a site for a national penal institution for women, the first of its kind ever authorised by Congress, and the appointment of a Senate Committee to sit during the election campaign and to investigate the expenditures of candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency and Congress and Federal offices authorised by Senate. The Postal Salary Increase Bill was vetoed by the President with the declaration that "Government extravagance must stop." The Bill made no provision for raising the 68,000,000 dollars necessary from postal revenue. Congress passed, and the President signed, a special Bill admitting immi-1 grants detained owing to a Supreme I Court ruling reversing the decisions j of the lower Courts, whereby tho wife and children of an alien already admitted to America could enter the United States without regard to the quota. [A message received a week ago said that nearly 25,000 immigrants, some of whom arrived years ago, would shortly be deported as a. result ,of a Supreme Court decision reversing decisions of tho lower Courts, whereby the wife and children of an alien already admitted could enter the United States without regard to the quota.]