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Show CONGRESS CLOSES REGULARSESSION 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 Corrupt Cor-rupt Practices Bill. Washington. Congress adjourned September 8, after nine months devoted de-voted to legislation. Both houses held protracted sessions Thursday night to end their affairs by approving approv-ing the conference agreement on the emergency revenue bill to raise approximately ap-proximately $200,000,000, desired by the adminisfn ,tion to meet the extraordinary extra-ordinary appropriations for national defense and the Mexican emergency. Only the physical impossibility of engrossing the revenue measure in time for the president's approval before be-fore Friday morning prevented final adjournment Thursday night, despite the waning protests of members of both houses who threatened, but did not execute the threats, to prolong the session by demanding action on other measures which were forced over until un-til December. The last appropriation measure, the general deficiency bill, was adopted by both houses while waiting for the conference report on the revenue bill, and the Danish treaty to provide for purchase of the Danish West Indies for $25,000,000 was ratified. The corrupt cor-rupt practices bill to limit campaign expenditures and the immigration bill, which President Wilson bad announced announc-ed he would veto if passed, were put aside and will be taken up in the December De-cember session. The revenue bill, as it went to the president, contains drastic provisions empowering the president to retaliate against foreign interference with American commerce, creates a nonpartisan non-partisan tariff commission, increases the duties on dyestuffs to encourage their . manufacture in the United States, provides means to prevent dumping of cheap foreign-made goods into American markets after the war, and provides for income, inheritance, munitions, corporation stock, liquor, and miscellaneous internal revenue taxes. Democratic leaders are claiming that the first session of the sixty-fourth sixty-fourth congress has established a record rec-ord for industry. Approximately 500 bills have been enacted into law. It is conceded generally that the nation al defense measures, providing $662, 456,512 to strengthen the army and the navy, are the most vital of all passed The regular army is virtually doubled dou-bled in size, a new army reserve Is established and the militia of the states is federalized. Provisions foi increasing the navy call for twenty one new warships, including ten first class battleships, eleven battle cruis .ers and ten scout cruisers, eight o: which are to be constructed immedl ately. The number of cadets who may b( appointed to West Point and the num ber of midshipmen at Annapolis an doubled. |