exceptionally heavy prog: gramme awaits the 71st session of the United"States Congress which opened yesterday. Among the questions of vital importance which will be considered are many affecting the Far East. An attempt is also to be made to force the session to consider the problem of.prohibition, with a view to its revision. Other important bills likely to be introduced are those concerning the improvement of U, S. trade with China, a ravis the alleged humiliating clauses of the U. S, Jupanese immigration Jaw, and the possibility of the United States becoming members of the World Court.
Washington, Nov. 28.
Important problems of tpn Pacific interest await the attention fof the third session of the Seventy: first Congress of the United States, scheduled to convene on Monday.
China, Japan, the Philippine Islands, and the Samoan Islands will be especially affected by pro-acts already on the calendars, or expected to be introduced as the result of plans made during the recess.
Trade with China has been. reference to during the recess by a Senate foreign relations: sub-committee headed by Senator Pittman, Democrat, committee report isa much interest, in view pressed economic situation, in using countries.
The resolution providing for this survey gave the sub-committee rather wide discretion in studying treaty relations of United States ind other countries, a fact which brandons the political significance of the impending report Japan's interest in the new session of Congress relates particularly
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