Show LONG SESSION OF I CONGRESS ENDED SOUTHERN MEMBERS ABANDON FILIBUSTER FILIBUSTER WHEN PROMISED ACTION AT NEXT SESSION Congress Co Had Been In Session for Days and Except for a Months Month's Recess Re cess Had Been In Session Pr Practically c- c Two Years Washington nearly nineteen months of continues is session longest ever known the Sixty third congress adjourned Its second session on Saturday October 24 24 after aCter the cole coU lapse of prolonged efforts to cotton growers relief le legislation Leaders in this movement agreed adjourn however anI only on the condi tion that pending cotton colton relief meas uros would have the right of way when congress reconvenes December 7 Not more than fifty members of ot the tha house and less than a quorum of thi senate were in attendance when hen gavels fell on oa adjournment without day I The second session of or the Sixty- Sixty third congress was one of the longest sessions in the his history tor of the United States The session convened December 1 1 1913 When it adjourned It had been In session days cx exclusive of the tha r recess cess from Decem er 23 1913 to January January Jan Jan- uary 12 1914 for a a. month off oft In 1913 congress has been In almost almost al- al most continuous session since December December December Decem Decem- ber 2 1912 practical two years The first of ut this congress lasted from April 7 1913 to December jl II 1 1913 a total of days Adding this this to days of the second session gives s the third Sixty-third con congress ress a total of Ma days The Tho following are the statistics of the bills ordered in this session Senate Senate Sen ata ate resolutions senate bills il Joint resolution senate Concurrent res resolutions 33 house joint resolutions house concurrent resolutions res res- res- res 60 50 house resolutions house bills 1037 The senate received about nominations nom Twenty four peace treaties were vere ratified Tha otal amount of money appropriated was The most important of the laws enacted enacted en en- acted at this session were the federal reserve act the repeal of the free tolls provision of tho the Panama canal act the Clayton Clarton trust anti-trust act the Alaskan railroad act providing for the construction zion tion and operation by the government of 1000 miles of railroad and the war tax x bill bUI intended to provide to make up the loss in revenue caused by the European war Among the other measures of importance im- im passed at this session were ere the following Law regulating cotton future sales sale on stock exchanges Appropriation of for river and habor improvements the money to tobe be spent at the discretion of the government engineers Law giving the city of San Francisco Francis Frands- co the right to take uke its water supply from the Hetch tetchy Latchy valley In Yosemite Yosemite Yosemite Yo- Yo semite national park Law Lav limiting the labor of women In Inthe Inthe inthe the DistrIct District of Columbia to eight hours a day Agricultural extension act providing for tor operation co-operation between department of agriculture and state agricultural colleges Act providing income tax of 1 per percent percent percent cent of the gross annual income of railroad railroad rail rail- road corporations in Alaska Act reorganizing diplomatic an consular service of the United States The Jones Philippine bill which declares declares de de- de- de clares dares the purpose of the United States to recognize the independence of th thc thu Philippines at some future date was was was' passed by the house |