The Union Daily Times

CONGRESS WILL MEET TOMORROW

Washington, Sept. 20.—Congress will reassemble tomorrow noon, after a recess since August 24, with a full program for the remainder of the extra session which may lapse into the regular December session.

Activity at first is to center in the senate which will consider the tax revision bill; the peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary; the anti-beer railroad debt funding, the allies' debt refunding and other bills.

The treaties are to be transmitted by President Harding tomorrow and are to be pressed at once.

The house will reconvene under a gentlemen's agreement to transact virtually no business until October 4. Comparatively few representatives were in Washington tonight and the leaders were not expected until next month. The bill to reapportion the house membership is slated to be taken up when the house begins work.

Presentation to the senate of the peace treaties with the revenue bill was expected to be the principal event tomorrow although leaders tonight indicated a possibility that the sessions tomorrow might be perfunctory and business put over one day. Death of house members during the recess, it was said, might out of respect cause an immediate adjournment of both senate and house.

Vice President Coolidge was here tonight ready to open the senate, but the house will be presided over by Representative Walsh (Republican) of Massachusetts in the absence of Speaker Gillett, who will not return before October. The house agreement provides for three day recesses until October 4.

A definite legislative program for the rest of the session is to be arranged soon by Republican steering committees whose members will confer with President Harding. The tax bill is to have senate precedence, according to present plans, although debate on it is not expected to begin until next week.

In view, however, of the administration desire to press the peace treaties, it was said by leaders tonight that the tax bill and the treaties might be considered virtually simultaneously in discussing the treaties during debate on the tax.

Republican leaders, it is understood intend to have the treaty debate after action by the foreign relations committee in executive session, but efforts to open the doors are planned by Democrats and by some Republicans.

The anti-beer bill also is to be pressed at once, according to Senator Sterling (Republican) of South Dakota, who is in charge of it. As the conference report was adopted by the house just before the recess, the bill has parliamentary priority in the senate even over the tax bill or the treaties.

After disposal of the tax bill, the senate finance committee is to resume work on the suspended tariff revision measure, but with little prospect of final enactment before early spring.

The railroad debt funding bill is to be urged at the first opportunity in the senate, according to Republican leaders. It passed the house just before the recess.

On October 10 under a formal agreement entered into last month, the senate will vote on the Borah bill to restore to American coastwise vessels free tolls privileges in the Panama canal.

Much senate and some house discussions of questions involved in the armament conference are in prospect. Good roads legislation is in conference with final action on the Townsend-Dowell federal aid bills expected next month.

The joint congressional committee investigating agricultural relief is to continue hearings in October.