| Show CONGRESS QUITS UNTIL JANUARY 2 en Senate ate Confirms on II ms But One ne Appointment Appointment Ap Ap- Before Adjourning Adjourn Adjourn- ing for Holiday Recess ASHINGTON Dec Dee Congress 19 Congress WASHINGTON adjourned for tor the Christmas holidays hol hol- holidays today after some somo lively maneuvers maneuvers maneu maneu- vers ors to get President Tafts Taft's message o Into tho record secure action on the tho Presidents President's recent appointments and Archbald Impeachment impeachment Im im- bring bring- proceedings In the thc to a point where they mil may maybe maybe be disposed of ot early In January Januar The House was unable to Ret get a quorum and adjourned without even e receiving tho the Presidents President's message The message a o waited for four our hours to secure entrance Into tho the Senate When that body convened con tho the Republican Republican lican n senators asked ed for Cor or Immediate consideration of or their demand for an executive session to tal take e up appoint appoint- ments Tho Democrats consented to tho the plan and until the tho Impeachment trial automatically took tho the floor loor the Senate fought over tho the filling of or presidential pres pres- presidential offices with tho the debate carried carried car cu ried on behind closed doors It was not until tho time Impeachment court ad- ad adjourned adjourned about i 4 o'clock that the Presidents President's Presidents President's Presidents President's dents dent's message was received and read Both houses of oC Congress adjourned to meet on Thursday Jan Jab 2 The Tho Senate confirmed but one ap appointment appointment op ap- that of ot John H. H Brown as ns postmaster at Concord N N. II IT No o action of ot taken tho reappointment was as on Edgar Edg-ar dance Clarke whose term as Interstate commissioner expires December Do- Do cember 31 1 Senator Hoke Smith acting acting- for tor torman man many Democrats offered a resolution for the confirmation of ot Arm army and navy appointments but the Republican senators senators sen sen- insisted on starting at the tho head hend of ot the list for tho consideration of ot postmasters Objections by Senator Hitchcock Democrat that the appointments appointments appoint appoint- m ments had Imd not received consideration b by tho the full membership of ot the postoffice postoffice post post- office committee drew tho the declaration from Senator Lodge o that if It this point were forced It would be bo embarrassing I throughout tho the administration of ot Woodrow Wilson Nilson Senator Lod Lodge e declared that the Senate always had followed the precedent precedent prece prece- dent of ot confirming postoffice appointments appointments appointments appoint appoint- ments on the recommendation of ot the subcommittees or Individual senators to which they were referred Senator Hitchcock finally withdrew his objection objection tion but no action was taken on the theother theother theother other appointments Figures Fig were presented by Senator Smoot to show that in previous changes of ot administration the tho Senate always confirmed tho the appointments of or orthe the retiring presidents Senator I Smith declared that President Taft raft had sent over 1300 appointments to tho the Senate during three weeks week of ot this session session session ses ses- sion while whilo President Cleveland sent in but during the whole three months of ot the last Congress of the first Cleveland eland term |
