Norwich Bulletin

CONGRESS ADJOURNED SINE DIE YESTERDAY

Washington, Sept. 22.—Congress adjourned sine die today with leaders generally expecting a call from President Harding for a special session November 15, preceding the regular December session.

The president was in attendance today for a few minutes before the final gavels dropped, to sign the usual sheaf of eleventh hour bills. The only important measure to get through on the last day was the deficiency appropriation bill. The administration Liberia loan bill and the Dyer anti-lynching measure went over until the next session.

Lacking in the adjournment today were many of the popular features often attending the death of a congressional session. The gallery crowds were small and undemonstrative and there were few floor wrangles. After disposing of the deficiency appropriation bill, the senate passed a number of minor measures and listened to a few set speeches while house members made one minute addresses mostly for publication during the next few days in the Congressional Record, and heard Representative Blanton, democrat, Texas, defend Attorney General Daugherty and criticize republicans for alleged neglect in that respect.

Statistical sharps tonight were busy calculating the work of the session, prominent in which was enactment of the tariff law and passage of the soldiers' bonus bill with its death after the president's veto. About 800 laws were said to have been enacted out of 3,498 bills and 358 resolutions introduced in the house and 1,249 bills and about 280 resolutions in the senate. Appropriations of the session aggregated over $2,250,000,000 and, with authorizations, $3,751,917,000 was made available for the government's fiscal year needs.

About 9,000 nominations were sent to the senate by President Harding, which were confirmed with but few exceptions.