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Show TO EXCEED A BILLION DOLLARS Appropriations Largest on Record Sent for Presi-dent's Presi-dent's Signature. Washington. Feb. 28. rNow that billion dollar sessions of congress are tho rulo, little other appropriation legislation can be enacted during the short sessions, and tho one to end this week Is no exception to the rule. Tho appropriations probably will bo the j largest on record, even exceeding tho $1,000,000,000 provided for at the first ' session. As only one of the fifteen i general appropriation bills has been ' sent to the President for his signature, signa-ture, - an accurate statement of thu amount to be appropriated Is impossible. impos-sible. . , Scarcely any of the general policies of the country were touched upon hls session. The discussion of the secret sossion, the Panama canal, the Brownsville affair and the Tennessee Ccal and Iron company purchase has brought tho Roosevelt administration administra-tion prominently in view. The veto of the censu-i bill, because the employes em-ployes for the taking of tho de-cennlai census were not to be' placed under civil service regulations was a feature in another interesting chapter. This bill goea over to' the special session. The appropriation of $800,000 ror the relief of the Italian' earthquake sufferers, has been spoken of as the' most significant element of the se-' slon. Another piece of legislation.1 the remission of tho remainder of tbj Chinese indemnity which was authorized. au-thorized. ' An act of great Importance to western west-ern home-seekers authorized enlarged homestead entries In tho arid regions. I In the 'closing hours of the session the fate of many highly important measures will be determined.- It remains only for the two houses to approve the agreement already reached by the conferees of the two bodies. As a result of this legislation the government will, through a "rider," "rid-er," enter, the field of regulating tho interstate' shipment of Intoxicating' liquors. An amendment to the code prohibits Interstate, "C. O. D." shipments ship-ments of Intoxicating liquors, and provides for the marking of the packages pack-ages 'of such liquors 1n interstate commerce' with the name of the consignee con-signee and the nature of the contents: con-tents: The Btatehood bill, admitting Arizona Ari-zona and New Mexico, is still In committee com-mittee in tho senate. It Is conceded it cannot pass this session'. The fate of the Galllnger ocean mail subsidy bill rests with the hous,e. It has been reported out of committee, but its passage through the house is problematical. It provides ' for subsidizing sub-sidizing mail lines to South America, Japan, Asia, the Philippines and AU3-trallasia. AU3-trallasia. Many Important measures are regarded re-garded as certain to fall to pass. Among these are the Burke wireless telegraph bill; the Week's' forest le-serve le-serve bill; the Currier copyright bill; the $500 million bond Issue for irn provement of water ways; changes In the government of the Isthmian canal zone; federal inspection of naval stores and grain, and suppression of gambling in cotton futures. A movement to amend the rules tit' both the senate and house has attracted at-tracted much attention. In the house there has been an organized open Insurrection, In-surrection, but In the senate the op- I DOSltion did not" crn hvrnrl tomn Rh.irn criticisms by new senators. In th-? j house the omvement will cause the establishment of a calendar day lor the call of bills every Wednesday. About 38.000 bills and 1,510 resolutions reso-lutions wore presented in both houseF. Of these about 275 public bills will become laws. There will be abou". 175 private bills enacted: About 50 resolutions were agreed to. Early in the congress, the President outlined his pollclos. as follows: National child labor law; an em ' plovers' liability law; antl-injunctlon legislation; amendments to the anti-Sherman anti-Sherman antl-truat law, for good corporations cor-porations and for labor unions; financial finan-cial legislation; postal savings banks, revision of the tariff; waterways coDi-mlsslon; coDi-mlsslon; regulation of water rights ou navigable streams. When the session ends there will be no national child labor law, io postal savings bank, and no regulation of water rights. An employers' liability lia-bility law has replaced the ono da-clared da-clared unconstitutional. A commercial commer-cial law, was enacted and a moneta;-y commission 16 Investigating the subject sub-ject of further financial legislation. Active steps looking to a revision ol the tariff have been taken. All through the session, tho house committee or. ways and means has considered i tariff bill. A waterways commission is now exlstant. and better regulation of water rights on navigable strenms Is being coneldered The adoption ot a greater naval pro gram marked tho congress. In entn session two battleships were author-, ized. The Balary Increase of those In the. government serlce was another .'mature. .'ma-ture. This included men snd ofllceri in the army and navy and kindred branches of the government, the sala rles of the president, the vice-president, the speaker, members of the supreme su-preme court, cabinet officers, senators sena-tors and members. The congress has also been dla-tlngiiMhed dla-tlngiiMhed by the number of Investigations Investi-gations Inaugurated. Among the most prominent were the Invested ttons of the Brownsville affair, the sec- I rot service, the submarine legislation and the papor Industry. |