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Show CONGRESS CLOSES REGULAR SESSION AFTER NINE MONTHS OF WORK MEMBERS GIVEN VACATION UNTIL DECEMBER. Many Important Measures Adopted at Closing Session, Including Emergency Emer-gency Revenue Bill and the Cor-rupt Cor-rupt Practices Bill. Washington. Congress adjourned Soptembcr 8, afU - nine months do-voted do-voted to legislation. Holli houses held protracted scsiions Thursday night to end their nfTuIrs by approving approv-ing tho conference agreement on tho emergency revenue bill to rnlso np-proxlnmtely np-proxlnmtely ?200,000,000, desired by the administration to moot tho extraordinary extra-ordinary appropriations for national defenso nnd tho Mexican emergency. Only tho physical Impossibility of engrossing tho revenue mensure in time for tho president's approval before be-fore Friday morning prevented final adjournment Thursday night, desplto tho waning protests of members of both houses who threatened, but did not execute tho threats, to prolong tho session by domnndlng action on other measures which wero forced over until un-til December. Tho last appropriation measure, the goneral deficiency bill, was adopted by both houses while waiting for the conforenco report on tho revenue bill, nnd tho Danish trenty to provide for purchaso of tho Danish West Indies for $25,000,000 wns ratified. Tho corrupt cor-rupt practices bill to limit campaign expenditures nnd tho Immigration bill, which President Wilson had announced announc-ed ho would veto If passed, wore put asldo and will bo tnken up in tho December De-cember session. Tho rovenue bill, ns it went to tho president, contains drastic provisions empowering tho president to retnllato ngiilnst foreign lntorferenco with American commerce, creates a nonpartisan non-partisan tariff commission, Increases tho duties on dyestuffs to encourage their manufacture in tho United States, provides means to prevent dumping of cheap forclgn-mado goods Into American markets nftor tho war, and provides for Income, Inheritance, munitions, corporation stock, liquor, and miscellaneous internal rovenuo tnxcB, Democratic leaders aro claiming that tho first session of tho sixty-fourth sixty-fourth congress has established a record rec-ord for industry. Approximately COO bills have been ennctod into law. It is conceded generally that tho national nation-al defenso measures, providing $CG2,-450,512 $CG2,-450,512 to strengthen tho army nnd tho navy, aro tho most vital of all passed. Tho regular army Is virtually doubled dou-bled in slzo, a now army reservo Is established and tho mllltla of the states is federalized. Provisions for increasing tho navy call for twenty-one twenty-one new warships, Including ten first-class first-class bnttleshlps, eleven battle cruisers cruis-ers and ton scout cruisers, eight of which aro to bo constructed immediately. immedi-ately. Tho number of cadets who may bo appointed to West Point and tho number num-ber of midshipmen at Annapolis uro doubled. Other achievements by this conrcs3 are dlvlsiblo into two classes: Tho social Justlco and agricultural bcnollt measures. Pnramount nmouu tho first of theso is tlto Adnmson eight-hour law, through which tho most cnlumltous railroad strike in history his-tory was prevented. Interest in this nnd tho fight over tho child labor law during August overshadowed nil clso during tho closing weeks of the session. |