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Show Review of Measures Passed and Bills Defeated x Washington, March 4. Out of the smoke of the closing battle in congress, con-gress, emerge these results of larger-interest: Positive Results. Provision of ?3,000,000 for the fortification forti-fication of the Panama canal. Provision for two new battleships. Recodification of the judicial code regaided as the most important for amelioration of the laws delays. Cieatiou of forest reserves In the southern Appalachian and White mountains. Provision for tho construction of embassy .anq legation buildings abroad. Provision requiring the inspection of locomotive boilers. Negative Results. Failure of the Canadian reciprocity reciproc-ity agreement and consequent certainty cer-tainty of an extra session Failure of the permanent tariff board b',11. which passed the senate, but was killed by a filibuster in ,the house. Failure of tho resolution to admit "to statehood Arizona and New Mexico Mex-ico by a filibuster in tho senate. , Falluro of the proposal to increase the rato of postage xm the advertising advertis-ing pactions of the large inagazlnes: but a commission provided to Investigate Inves-tigate the subject. ' Failure of the resolution providing for the direct election of United Stales senators. Failure of the general age pension bill. Failure to act on the Balllnger-Pln-chot investigation reports. Failure to enact the ocean mall subsidy, passed by the senate alone. Failure of the effort to eject William Wil-liam Lorimer fiom the senate on the charge of bribery. oo- |