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Show SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS NOW ONJAST LAP Confronted With Great Man of Work That Mutt Be Cleared Up Before Noon Tomorrow Washington, March 3. Tho Sixty-third Sixty-third Congress swung into tho last 21 hours of Its llfo today confronted with a mass and Jumble of work which must be dono before noon tomorrow. to-morrow. Doth house and senate will bo In practically continuous session until adjournment. Ono by ono tho accumulation of bills nnd resolutions was being disposed ot and sent to tho Whlto Houso for President Wilson's Wil-son's signature, but tho closing hours wero not without threats of failure for somo measures. Today senate and houso conferees wero deadlocked over tho rural cred Its amendments to tho agricultural appropriation bill; thoro was like-wlso like-wlso a deadlock over tho railway mall pay provisions In tho postolllco bill. Uultlmatums to abandon tho disputed points or let th0 bills fall, wero being exchanged between tho contending sides. No differences ap peared In the other large bills that woro not euro to bo composed. So much work on tho appropriation bills remalnod to ho dono that administration ad-ministration leaders did not hope to seo any ot tho Democratic legtshv tlvq program passed. They expected expect-ed 'the ship bill, tho Phllllpplno bill und other measures would havo to go over tor tho next Congress. Senators Root, Burton, Smoot and Lodgo who Iod tho Republican opposition op-position to the ship bill arranged watch tho closing hours of tho sen-nto sen-nto to meet any attempt to pass tho bill when tho opposition was not watchful. |