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Show LONG SESSION OF CONGRESS AT END CONGRESSMEN GET VACATION AFTER ALMOST TWO YEARS OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE. Postoffice and Indian Supply Bills Failed to Pass in Final Legislative Legisla-tive Crush There Will be No Extra Session. Washington. After two years of almost continuous session, the Sixty-third Sixty-third congress, which levised the tariff tar-iff and the 'currency system of the nation, na-tion, supplemented the trust laws, created an income tax, and experienced experi-enced the first poular election of United States senators, ended at noon on March 4. When gavels fell in the house and senate, signalizing the adjournment, they marked the close of half of President Wilson's administration the first under domination of the Democratic Dem-ocratic party since 1S95. Strenuous scenes enlivened the fading hours, devoted de-voted chiefly to completing the appropriations appro-priations for subsistence to the government. gov-ernment. Two important measures the postoffice and Indian supply bills failed in the final legislative crush, after desperate efforts had been made to save them. In the emergency occasioned oc-casioned by their failure joint resolutions resolu-tions were passed and signed by the president continuing in force appropriations appro-priations of the present year. While the tired senators and representatives rep-resentatives were devoting their energies en-ergies to final essentials, President Wilson spent more than an hour in his room at the capitol, surrounded by members of his cabinet, signing the last fruits of legislation. The president found time in the midst of this task to greet senators and representatives, and he made the occasion entirely one of congratulations, congratula-tions, making no reference to projects which had failed. Scores of members of both houses joined in an exodus from Washington, taking with them assurances that no extra session of congress would be called, at least before the fall. The appropriations committee on Thursday began the work of tabulating tabulat-ing the amounts of the various bills which took money out of the treasury during the session. It will be several days before an accurate tabulation is made, but the total tabulations are estimated es-timated at about $l,12u.nii!i,000. |