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Show TWO BILLS I TO SETTLE I Congress Confronted With General Defici- I ency and Indian Ap- propriation L Washington, Mar 4. Congress, upon up-on reassembling for its last day. was confronted with only two outstand-ing outstand-ing annual supply bills, the general deficiency and Indian appropriation. All the other appropriation measures, whose delay had aroused the leaders of both bouses, had been agreed upon In conference and put through both The deficiency bill was hung up In conference The Indian bill was mr. rking time In the senate when the two houses, still In the legislative day ot Saturday, recessed from shortly IJ after 4 o'clock this morning until 9:30 a. m., following a continuous all-day session. Night Festival Sidetracked. The night session lacked the spec-tacular spec-tacular features of some of its pre-decessors pre-decessors In the dying hours of a congress The proposed "festival" of song and humor was sidetracked Speaker ( lark bad sat on the ros-trom ros-trom almost twenty hours continuously. continu-ously. Republican Leader Mann and Democratic Leader Linderwood re-niained re-niained at their posts. JH Claimed Time-Honored Privilege-Requests Privilege-Requests to extend remarks in the Col gressional Record, a time. honored privilege, became so frequent that at ". a. m, Representath e Akin of New York askori unanimous consent to ex-tend ex-tend bis remarks "on all subjects." jH Former Speaker Cannon denounced th sundry civil bill and declared th president would not approve It be-cause be-cause of the conference acceptance of the provision excepting labor un-I un-I Ions from the applicability of the 1300,000 of funds appropriated to en-j en-j force the anti-trust laws. Mr Can- H non contended that was class legis- |