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Show WAR CONORESS ENDED. Moth the 8nale and the Home Turned the Clock Hack. Washington, Fob. 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, lloth the senate and the house turned the clocks back ten minutes. The vice-president vice-president declared tho scnato adjourned without day at 12:03 p. m. Tho house adjourned at 12:10. Iloth the senate and house agreed to all appropriation bills. The Pacific cablo amendment fallod. In the naval appropriation bill the house won all Its amendments for In crease of the navy and tho senate amendment reducing the price of armor plat to .(300. prevailed. The. senate amendment for an armor-plate factory was eliminated. The house of representatives of the present congress has passed 1,030 bills and resolutions, against 1,200 by tho Flfty-fourth, 051 by the Forty-third and 892 by the fifty-second congresses, respectively. Forty-two distinct army measures wero presented during tht three sessions. |