AMERICAN CONGRESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1037, 9 June 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN CONGRESS.

END OF THE SESSION. MANY MEASURES DROPPED, Received June 9, 9;15 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 7. Congress ended its six months' ses« sion automatically at seven o'clock tonight. Senators and representatives fought a last desperate battle to re> lieve the farmers. Many measures, including a bill authorising the construction of cruisers and .the modernising of battleships, the deficiency Appropriation Bill carrying funds to begin the operation of the bonus law and other purposes, failed in the final crush 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. The Republican leaders declared that only a special session of Congress could provide the funds for the initial costs of the bonus. —A. and N.Z. cable. PRESIDENT~~VETOES' A BILL, "EXTRAVAGANCE MUST STOP." Received June 9, 8.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 7. ; The legislation approved by President Coolidge at the wind-up of Con-? gress included a bill creating J a commission to select a site for a national penal institution for women, the first of its kind ever authorised by Congress. The appointment of a Senate Committee to sit during the election campaign and investigate the expenditures of the candidates for President, Vice-President, and Congress and Federal offices was authorised by the Senate.

The Postal Salary Increase Bill was vetoed by President Coolidge, with the declaration that "Government extravagance must stop." The bill made no provision for raising the sixty-eight million dollars necessary from the postal revenue.—Reuter.