Show sixtieth ends first session G R as 5 ASHINGTON with tile tho passing W of an emergency currency cui rency measure and it ft fow few remaining appropriation bills tile the first session of the six loth congress con giess has baa passed into lila ills tory what speaker iier cannon calls the mill was waa well nigh choked with would be legislation that was crammed into the hopper during the session Bos slon there have leavo been bills of 0 all varieties shades and sizes bills for tho the regulation of nearly everything under the sun nun have been introduced notwithstanding tho the diminishing revenues and the aho warnings that the treasury was waa facing an almost certain deficit there was no abatement of tile the clamor for appropriations it if all the appropriations asked for had been granted the government debt would be b multiplied tenfold it wo we had put through one third ot of the bills that wore offered us said eald a prominent member of the house more than a century would be required to straighten out tile tho conglomerate mass all records were broken by the number of bills introduced during the sealon lon senators natora Se and representatives camo came to washington last fall with their grips tali full of bills and between and were introduced the first day among them were several dozen currency bills for in the early days of tho the sessions nearly every legis i lator had a panacea for the count rya rys financial ills the moro more the members studied the question tho the loss less they seemed to understand it and in tho the closing weeks few of them would admit to export knowledge of the subject the rush of bills kept up all winter tile tho total number presented in the two bran branches clips of congress being the house members introduced introduce 2035 and the ahe senators A great many of those these measures were private pension sion bills only a small percentage ot of which finally became laws during the ali list st session of tile the fifty ninth con gross which continued five weeks longer than the recent session wis wore were introduced in ili the house housa ana am in tho the senate all previous records were broken by the tha senate in tho the amount of executive business busl which was transacted thir thap ty four treaties were ratified and made public most of them arbitration treaties the congressional record will disclose that fewer speeches were made than in times gone by owing to tho the fact that john sharp williams inaugurated augu rated a filibuster several months montha ago instead of speeches ape echea tho the record is filled with roll calls about 45 min utes are required to call and verify tho the roll of the house there were over roll calls most of them on inconsequential quent ial questions like adjournment recess approval of the journal etc so BO that tile not net results of mr williams dilatory campaign was that approximately six alx lays days of 24 hours each were wasted |