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Show WORK OF RECENT WAR CONGRESS IS ' BEING REVIEWED WASHINGTON, March 23. Accomplishments Accom-plishments of the Sixty-fifth or war con-1 gress are officially reviewed in the final number of the monthly compendium of the house of representatives, appearing today. Unfinished business of the congress, con-gress, which necessarily must be considered consid-ered in the legislative program of the new congress, soon to convene, also is contained in the publication, which was edited by W. Ray Loomis, an official of the house. "Constituting, as it does, a statistical retrospection of the accomplishments of the Sixty-fifth congress," says Mr. Loomis in a' foreword of the compendium, com-pendium, "the final issue of the Monthly Compendium throws the searchlight on the transactions of three sessions of unparalleled un-paralleled events. W hen the congress met In April, 1917, the country was at peace. In the interim a war had been declared, a war had been won, and a war had been ended. So this issue carries legislative history of a character that perhaps never again will be duplicated, both as to the .amount of money authorized author-ized to be expended and as to the extent of the revolutionizing of the social and business lives of the people of the nation." na-tion." Huge Appropriations. The Sixty-fifth congress is shown to have appropriated approximately $57,000,-000,000; $57,000,-000,000; passed 349 public laws, 4S public resolutions, 48 private laws and conducted conduct-ed 32 congressional investigations. A total to-tal of 22.5IH bills and resolutions was introduced, in-troduced, of which 1 fi,t)84 originated in the house and the remainder in the senate. sen-ate. President, Wilson vetoed five measures. meas-ures. President Wilson's part in congressional congression-al matters is set out by a list of notable dates, including his approval of the history-making laws and his numerous addresses. ad-dresses. It is shown that for the first time Jaws were signed in a foreign country; coun-try; that for the first time a measure a revenue bill was signed on a railroad train; that for the first time a president had addressed the senate in favor of woman suffrage, and had signed a bill to "move the sun forward' and then hack-ward," hack-ward," and had gone on the floor of the house to shake hands with members of foreign war missions. Unprecedented Featu?-e. Another unprecedented feature was that practically one-fourth of all tho laws of the three sessions were approved during the last nine days of the congress. Fifteen Fif-teen representatives and ten senators and twenty ex-members died during the congress. Two former presiding officers of the senate, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks, also are included in the death roll. A list of authors of hills receiving action ac-tion hevond mere introduction shows a predomination of names of chairmen of committees. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, Ore-gon, chairman of the military committee, with fifty-eight measures, leading the list, with Senator Myers of Montana, chairman of the public lands con unit tee, second, with ..thirty-five bills. |