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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 yoars of almost, continuous session, tho Sixty-third Sixty-third congress, which revised tho tariff tar-iff and the curroncy syfltom of tho nation, na-tion, supplemented the trust laws, created un Income tax, and experienced experi-enced tho first poplar election of United states senators, ended at noon on March 4. When gavels fell in tho house and sonute, signalizing tho' adjournment, they marked the closo of half of I'resldont Wilson's administration tho first under domination of the Democratic Dem-ocratic party Blnce 1895, Strenuous scenes enlivened the fading hours, devoted de-voted chiefly to completing the appropriations appro-priations for subsistence to tho government. gov-ernment. Two important measures the postoffico and Indian supply bills failed in the final legislative crush, after desperato efforts had beon made to savo them. In the emergency occasioned oc-casioned by tholr failure Joint resolutions resolu-tions wero passed and signed by the president continuing in force appro-'priallb'ns"6f appro-'priallb'ns"6f "thV present' year. While tho tirod 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 capltol, surrounded by members of his cabinet, signing tho 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 hud failed. Scores of members of both houses Joined In un oxodus from Washington, taking with thorn assurances that no extra session of congress would be called, at leaBt before tho full. The appropriations committee on Thursday .bogau tho work of tabulating tabulat-ing tho amounts of the various bills which took money out bf tho tronsury during the session. It will bo several days before an accurate tabulation is made, but the total tabulations aro estimated es-timated at about $1,120,000,000. |