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Show WAR CONGRESS ENDED. lloth the Senato and the House Turned the Clock Hack. Washington, Feb. 7. The Fifty-fifth congress came to an end after a session that lasted from Friday at 11 o'clock until 8 minutes after 12 Saturday. Both the senate and the house turned the clocks back ten minutes. The vice-president vice-president declared the senate adjourned without day at 12:03 p. m. The house adjourned at 12:10. Both the senate and house agreed to all appropriation bills. The Pacific cable amendment failed. In the naval appropriation hill the house won all its amendments for increase in-crease of the navy and the senate amendment reducing the price of armor plate to 8300 prevailed. The senate amendment for an armor-plate factory was eliminated. The house of representatives of the present congress has passed 1,636 bills and resolutions, against 1,200 by the Fifty-fourth, 951 by the Forty-third and 892 by the fifty-second congresses, respectively. Forty-two distinct army measures were presented during the three sessions. |