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Show CONGRESS WORK 1 ABOUXflNISHED I Adjournment After Lon Ses- ill sion Will Probably Be Had 1 1 TJiis Afternoon. I II NEW RECORD IS MADE 111 FOR LEGISLATION PASSED 1 1 f List of the Administration i Measures Pushed Tbrongh in m Face of Opposition. 1 1 WASHINGTON, .Tune LM.Notwlth- if 'Iff standing tlie fact that action on many W Important measures was delayed bv con- IS ul llietH between "Insurgents" and :'regu- 9 Urn lar'- Republican factious hi both branches a ma and tbat tlie Democratic minority was an Wa active force, congresH Is expected to con- fllnWt elude Its long session tomorrow wltli a ItP Ul record for legislation tbat seldom, if ever, ill nil has been equaled. JfiiM In tbe matter of "reform" movements Stlfl for which President Taft s.tood sponsor fiNBB there were many Instances of success. ftifiM Chief In the list of legislation Jar which Mtt M the administration contended wore the 'Wijl following: iSsnA Rosumo of tho Work. iBny Striking revision of the railroad laws, Si? ! Including the creation of a commerce $? Admitting Arizona and New Mexico as Knl separate slates. mm Authorizing the establishment of postal wf fl savings banks. w 9 Giving to the president unlimited au- !ffi H thorlty to withdraw public lands for con- jH j servatlon purposes. ' E jjfl Providing for publicity of campaign con- In W! trlbutions. W Hi Authorizing the issue of $20,000,000 in ,WU H. certificates ii Indebtedness to complete Eh I reclamation projects. - fl g Creating a bureau of mines. ' Snl R 1 Jixtondlng the activities of the tariff lilfta board and appropriating ?250,000 for Its i UtHS Jjooldng to the suppression of tho fHllHJ "white slave" trnfnc. ti!iaffi Creating a commission to consider ccon- wltfllf omles In the administration of the fed- flBltfll oral government. SSulHR Authorizing the entry of surface coal HhI Providing a tariff system for the Phil- flllfis Ippincs. Mlllt Legislation lhat ultimately Is expected Klfill to give prohibition, to the Hawaiian Iflllf-jt islands. . Ul jttl Opposed to tho foregoing formidable IBliiH! list of legislation obtained was a com- MJttJSi pnratlvely small number of measures . Wllffl j that had had administration support, but IflHfflj failed of passage. They wore measures n liOl on the subjects of ship subsidy, nntl- j ff Kb 'J Injunction, for now forms of government iSHBB'J in Alaska, and on tho Panama canal -rijlfflll zone, a bureau of health, increased post- 'mISSm age ratea for second-class mall matter. liljlflBJ the Appalachian forest reserve, and the JHslKP ' Increase of the engineering corps of tho SMH Battles in tho House. 4aJKsi Not tlie least conspicuous acts o'f con- gress were the strenuous measures taken 'Iffi'Sl : by tho house of representatives io re- iBsJIiifi form Its system of conducting business airlift 1' so that less power might be reposed In iJatffff the speaker and the organization of a WW if which he was the natural leader. IrJaM ' The speaker was removed from the lliflSlE ' committee on rules, which he had pre- 4IS1I5'' vlously been credited with dominating, ImCT ! and a new rule was adopted to prcvont ifjflUl ' the pigeonholing of bills by committees ill II3f when they wero approved by a majority arawS. i of tlic house. Iranil' The enormous demand for legislation tHallS ! pressed upon congress Is shown by tho .iMuHi fact that since the beginning of the IHtlil present congress 27,000 bills have been JlinWi introduced In the house und 9000 in tho uBtHti senate, In addition to hundreds of rcso- S&IIumI ' lullons. This record, as far as the mini- ffllHiBf ' ber of bills Is concerned, Is without a iKlusfti parallel. jlfii)lf ! Railroad Legislation. ill! Ml SMore time was consumed in consider- j fflW ing the railroad bill than was taken by ill , all other subjects of legislation. Tills j fla , measure not only creates a commerce . j pot court, but embodies authority for a com- ii ftiul mission to inquire Into stock and bond i W issues of railroads, extends the provision E fill , for the Interstate commerce act to tele- j (h graph and telephone companlos. and gives ; I Ufl I the Interstate Commerce commission i j j power to suspend Increases In rates uu- il l(j til the commission shall havo found the I V ! proposed Increase reasonable. : J IB ', An act was passed to compel railroads J i 1 to furnish to tho Interstate Commorco 'Bill commission reports on accidents. 'Kvli Under tho withdrawal act the presl- iBill I dent was given almost unlimited power , !.f j to withhold lands from settlement and i JAi; . ' to conscrvo water power. On tho other j j 1 j! hand, tho act providing for tho agrlcul- 'ui.h tural cnti-y of the surface of conl lands ' Jlr ' avIII open to settlement at least sixty ii ( ' million acres, but will roservo to the W'i ' government tho right to the coal. With laws providing for tho opening of jr Mi . , a portion of the Pine Ridge and the Rose- j 'yjjf bud rcsorvatlons In South Dakota, and ) MJ Ji tho Fort Bnlholdy reservation In North 'iJiiIii1 Dakota, more than 2.000,000 acres of ag- -.J raM rlcultural lands will bo available for s j W j, homestead scttlomont. Tlio sum of $1C0,- , i jJ.' 000 was appropriated for tho gauging of I yt rj streams with a vlovr to tho preservation rA 1.,' of the water supply. )t '! Conservation Policy. i'J-w i ' These conscrmtion measures am dc- . ' M ! i. : clared to bo far reaching. Under tho new i- power conferrod on tho president, il. Is V I expected that thoro will ho extensive '.'Will land withdrawals, while tho settlement l-iTiaJii of eoal lands, without Involving tho valu- 'i'tlllH able deposits beneath the surface. Is t ;J2u 4 1 expected to do much to reconcile oppon- i ftifljf onts of couscnutlon who havo contended l;J agjn against the misuse of lands merely to i aSsjiJ .I preserve natural rcsourcos for future gen- J aMrtlfi cmtlons. 1 "Kjl1 The Increase provided for tho navy was j notable. Two battleships of 27,000 tons litj each, armed with fourtccn-lnch guns, 'A rRffi making them the mosL formldabln in the . ij f Fiji I Dreadnoughts afloat, wero authorized. Mill i Tho naval strongth of the United States. ImU will bo further supplemented by six tor- J flil pedo boat destroyers, two colliers and ;'j lajf four submarines, while an Increaso of f i 1 the personnel of tho navy of 3000 men : ? jljl was authorlhed. 'lJU Greater safoty of railroad employees j fKllu ' and truvolors will bo obtained by tho , I ,mM J laws to extend tho use of safoty up- taM An appropriation of $300,000. to bo ' RfrUu used bj' the attorney general In on- f Kwaifln forcing tlfo Sherman anti-trust law, was jffnjjl Tho' sum of 5300,000, with the sugges- ; Jt!'W?Bjf lion that as much more as might bo ilkWRiiPfflfi needed might be forthcoming, was ap- Smf tWir proprlatcrl for the raising of the wreck 8$ If mmK of the battleship Maine. 5i 1 lillSHi Further regulation of the Immigration M 11 il liml servlcu was provided to Improvo Ihe Ttrt'lf fiwjfi chnraclor of Immigrants obtaining admin- VK'iriitMll slon Into this country. Other legislallo- 'JfrtS'lHi?1 makes provision for the belter protect k iWlKi '"iflfiir S of the Alaskan seal fisheries, for tho n- fPAv lt'f y motion of the efficiency of tho mllltln fv 'liHj; m i tho parole of United States prisoners. Ill Ik Hlifi 3 whose conduct Indicates that thov would lUHl' "mi 1 not abuso their liberty; for tho franking fflifl VWf vl of publications by tho blind, for the o- JritSllM Continued on Page Two. CONGRESS WORK ABOUT FINISHED Continued from Pago One. tabllshment of the Glacier National park In Montana, and for tho creation of a commission of line arts. PLACES MORE POWER ' . IN HANDS OF TAFT WASHINGTON. June 24. The house conferees today won their fight for tho PA"00 authorizing the Issuance of 520.000.000 worth of certificates of indebtedness in-debtedness for the completion of existing exist-ing reclamation projects, on which it is proposed to spend the money so raised. They made the concession, however, that the provision he modified so that the power of approving projects rost upon up-on the president alone. The house provision pro-vision would have required the approval of the army engineers. The senate opposed turning over to the army engineers the work of examining and approving projects, on the ground, that many of the projects had been developed de-veloped lo a point whero they must be continued according lo the original plans or all of the money already Invested would be lost. An effort to reconcile the differences was made at tho White house today, when the president had the conferees to lunchoon. He proposed that the question of having the projects examined by the army engineers be left to the discretion of tho executive, and the senate conferees con-ferees wore willing lo accept this suggestion. sugges-tion. The matter wns not settled, however, until after another conference at the capltol, and the agreement resulted only afrer still further concessions by the senate conferees. After considerable debate, tho senate announced the conference report. MONUMENTS FOR NOTED PERSONS PROVIDED FOR WASHINGTON, Juno 24. It is proposed pro-posed to appropriate $10,000 to erect a monument to tho memory of Hiram Cronk, said lo be the last survivor of tho war of 1812, who died in New York in May, 1905, at; the age of 105 years. A bill providing for such an appropriation has been introduced by Representative Law of New York. Representative Poindexter of Washington Wash-ington has introduced a bill to erect a monument near Rosalio, Wash., to com memorato the spot where United States troops and hostile Indians fought on May 17, 1858. Another bill provides for the marking mark-ing of tho graves of four young wo-men wo-men who woro held as prisoners of war in Kansns City in 1863, and who on August 13 of that year woro killed by the coHapso of the building in which thoy were confined. The names of the women are given as Josephine Anderson, Ander-son, Mrs. Whitsett, Mrs. Vandiver and Mrs. Kerr, whose remains wero interred in Kansas City and elsewhere in Jackson Jack-son county. 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