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Show J LONG SESSION OF CONGRESS ENDED SOUTHERN MEMBERS ABANDON FILIBUSTER WHEN PROMISED ACTION AT NEXT SESSION. Congress Had Been in Session for 304 Days and Except for a Month's Recess, Re-cess, Had Been in Session Practically Prac-tically Two Years. Washington. After nearly nineteen months of continuous session, the longest ever known, the Sixty-third congress adjourned its second session on Saturday, October 24, after the collapse col-lapse of prolonged efforts to procure Dotton growers relief legislation. Leaders in this, movement agreed ta adjourn, however, only on the condition condi-tion that pending cotton relief mea urea would have the right of way when congress reconvenes December 7. Not more than fifty members of th house and less than a quorum of th senate were in attendance when the gavels fell on adjournment without day. The second session of the Sixty-third Sixty-third congress was one of the longest sessions in the history of the United States. The session convened December 1 1913. When it adjourned it had been in session 304 days, exclusive of th recess from December 23, 1913, to Jan uary 12. 1914. Except for a montt off In 1913, congress has been in al most continuous session since Decern ber 2, 1912, practically two years. The first session of this congresi lasted from. April 7, 1913, to Decembei 1, 1913, a total of 239 days. Addinj this to 304 days of the second sessior gives the Sixty-third congress a totai of 543 days. The following are th statistics oi the bills ordered in this session: Sen ate resolutions, 472; senate bills, 6,641; senate joint resolution, 196; senate concurrent resolutions, 33; house joinl resolutions, 372; house concurrent res olutions,, 50; house resolutions, 648; house bills, 1,037. The senate received about 5,000 nom inations. Twenty-four peace treaties were ratified. The total amount ol money appropriated wa3 $1,115,908 777.26. ; The most Important of the laws enacted en-acted at this session were the federal reserve act, the repeal of the free tolls provision of the Panama canal act, the Clayton anti-trust act, , the Alaskan railroad act providing for the construction construc-tion and operation by the government of 1,000 miles of railroad, and the war tax bill, intended to provide $107..000,-000 $107..000,-000 to make up the loss in revenue caused by the European war. Among the other measures of importance im-portance passad at this session were the following Law regulating cotton future sales on stock exchanges. Appropriation of $20,000,000 for river and habor improvements, the money to -be spent at the discretion of the government engineers. Law giving the city of San Francisco Francis-co the right to take its water supply from the Hetch Hetchy valley In Yo-?emlte Yo-?emlte national park.1 ' " Law limiting the labor of women in the District of Columbia to eight hours a day. Agricultural extension act providing for co-operation, between department of .."gricu'tntfo and state agricultural colleges. Act providing income tax of 1 per cent of the gross annual income of railroad rail-road corporations in Alaska. Act reorganizing diplomatic ' and :onsuUr service of the United States. The Jones Philippine bill whi-ch de-clares de-clares the purpose of the United States to recognize the independence of the Philippines, at some future date, was pabsed by the house. |