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Show Ml EXTRA SESSION: ! SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS AD JOURNS WITHOUT SETTLING IMPORTANT BUSINESS. Within an Hour After Closing Session Ses-sion Call is Issued for Congreis to Meet In Special Session on the Fourth of April. Washington. The Sixty-first con gress, heedless of one of the mont Important Im-portant legislative tanks set before it. came to an end shortly after noon Saturday. Within the hour following President Presi-dent Tuft hud Issued a proclamation calling the new congress to meet In extraordinary session at noon, on Tuesday, April 4. He will then submit sub-mit for ratification to a hoime overwhelmingly over-whelmingly Democratic, and to a senate sen-ate barely Republican, the reciprocity agreement with Canada. The McCail bill, carrying that agreement into effect ef-fect and paused by the house, met on Saturday, at the bands of the old senate, the death freely predicted for IL The permanent tariff board bill, forced to its passage through a reluctant re-luctant senate at 6:30 o'clock Saturday Satur-day morning, was hurried over to the house, there to be strangled by a Democratic filibuster. Congress provided funds to contlnuo the work of the temporary tariff board for another year. It was at the request of the Demo crats of the house and senate that President Tuft fixed the date of the extra session on April 4. There Is little doubt now that the Democrats of the house will undertake under-take to revise at least two or three of the schedules of the Payne-Aldrlch tariff act, and there Is every reason also to believe the bills will lie favorably fa-vorably received In the new senate. How long the extra session will lust Is problematical. While the new congress con-gress may promptly ratify the reciprocity recip-rocity Agreement, some Democrat are In favor of withholding confirmation confirma-tion until two or three new tariff schedules are ready. If tariff differences dif-ferences should arise between the new house and the senate the session ses-sion unquestionably would be a long one. The old congress ended amid scenes of extraordinary excitement and uncertainty. un-certainty. In the house the disorder at times In the closing hours, when the successful filibuster against the tariff board bill was In progress, became be-came almost a riot. Retiring Speaker Cannon was eulogized eulo-gized by Champ Clark, who will bo the next speaker of the house, Mr. Clark characterizing Speaker Cannon as a "great bls'orlcal character," and ending his remarks with the declaration declara-tion that "we all wish for the rotlrina speaker peace, plenty, prosperity, happiness and length of days. |