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Show CUSSSSOBRi; ASSti) ' -' BUS ffl -LAST KM WASHINGTON, Marcli 4. -Both houses of Congress adjourned sine die about noon today. The President left the White Hpuse at 10:50 o'clock for the Capitol, arriving there about 11 o'clock.' Before leaving the executive office the Aldrich currency hill wu signed, and the first measure signed after hit arrival at the Capitol was one authorizing author-izing an Immigrant station In Charleston, Charles-ton, 8. O. '' ; Among the President's guests in the room set aside for him in the Senate wing, in addition to the Cabinet members, mem-bers, were James B. Garfield, who will succeed Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, and George L. Von . Meyer, who succeeds George B. Cortelyou as Postmaster-General. The President was assisted as-sisted in his work of perusing bills by Secretary Loeb and other members of the White House staff.. ', Ship Subsidy's Death. . " The ship subsidy bill, which had been before Congress In a more or less prominent prom-inent way for two years, and for the last two days in an acute form, finally received its quietus in the Senst at 11 o'clock, when Senator Gallinger, in behalf be-half of the measure, rose and finally announced an-nounced his decision not to press ft for further consideration. , Before making this announcement he made last re quest for a vote, whereupon Cannack expressed his regret "that the bill would still lead to extended debate.' Thereupon Gallinger made the final announcement. Before, however, he came to this statement, he entered into a furious, though brief, argument in support of the bul. Two days of "frivolous "friv-olous debate," he said, had occurred upon the measure, and he felt it to be his duty to call attention to the salient points Involved in connection with the subject. Signs a Railway Bill. " - Thirty bills in all were signed by the President at the capitol. Delay in engrossing the bill limiting the hours of railway employees, prevented the President from completing his task before be-fore noon, and it was exactly three minutes after 12 when he attached his signature to that measure. H. B. Fuller, who has. been representing the various railway brotherhoods at the capitol during the consideration of this measure, was in the room t the time it was signed. The PresiHent shook hands with Fuller, remarking, "You know the President onlv gets a percentage percent-age of what he wants' Mr. Bosevelt told Fuller that the measure was a step in the right direction direc-tion and he hoped it would result in more sweeping legislation in l the 'future. 'fu-ture. After attaching his signature to this bill, the President chatted with members of his cabinet and other visitors vis-itors for a short time, leaving the eap-itol eap-itol at 12:25 o'clock on his return to the White House. . , One of tha last official acts of George B. Cortelyou as Postmaster-General . waa the ssuanee of the following order: "That whenever the weight of man is taken on railroad routes, the whole number num-ber of days the mails are weighed shall be used aa a division for Obtaining the average weight per day." ' Cortelyou succeeds Leslie M. Shaw aa Secretary of the Treasury. |