DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

Aug. 28-The House passed the bill authorizing the President to confer on Gen. Pershing the permanent rank of general. President Wilson asked Congress to appropriate immediately $825,000 for expenses of the American peace commission in Paris, and submitted a report showing the actual and estimated cost of America's part in peacemaking is $1,506,776.

Aug. 29-The House passed the Senate bill increasing the number of authorized officers in the army from 11,500 to 18,000 for the present fiscal year.

Sept. 2-The House by a strict party vote passed the bill levying a protective tariff on pearl buttons on the ground that the Japanese industry, with cheap labor, has virtually driven American manufacturers out of the market.

Sept. 3-The House passed the bill designed to encourage foreign trade by permittting national banks and other financial institutions to invest up to 10 per cent of their capital and surplus in corporations engaged in export business.

Sept. 4-The Senate passed the bill incorporating the American Legion without debate or opposition. The House passed bills adding more than 1,000,000 acres to government-owned land in the Thunder Mountain region of Idaho, to Fayette and Idaho national forest. Passed the bill providing a flat increase of $150 a year in annual salaries to all postoffice employes.

Sept. 10-After undergoing amendment in several particulars the Edge bill designed to finance American export trade was passed in the Senate.

The House sent the national prohibition enforcement bill in conference, managers for the House being Representatives Volstead, of Minnesota ;

Morgan, of Oklahoma, and Webb, of North Carolina.

Sept. 11-Senator Lodge submitted the majority report on the peace treaty and league of nations.

Sept. 12-The House, by a vote of 247 to 22, passed the resolution by Representative Lehlbach, of New Jer sey, calling on Postmaster General Burleson for a complete report of all appointments he has made, with corresponding recommendations of the civil service commission.

Sept. 13 The Senate passed House bill extending the food control act to penalize profiteering, as requested by President Wilson and Attorney General Palmer.

William C. Bullitt, formerly attached to the American peace mission, made startling revelations before the foreign relations committee, stating, among other things, that Secretary Lansing told him in Paris last May that "if the Senate and the American people knew what the treaty meant it would be defeated.”

Sept. 16 The House passed the bill making transportation of stolen automobiles from one State to an other punishable by a fine of $5000 and five years' imprisonment.

Passed the Senate resolution elevat

ing the American legation in Belgium to an embassy.

Sept. 17-The House and Senate passed joint resolutions extending the thanks of Congress to Gen. Pershing and to the officers and men who served under him. Chairman Good, of the appropriations committee, warned the House that the Treasury is facing a deficit of more than $3,000,000,000 by July 1 next.

"In our might and majesty and in the confidence and definiteness of our own purpose we need not and we should not form alliances with any nation in the world."-Woodrow Wilson.