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Show LONG SESSION OF CONGRESS ENDED SOUTHERN MEMBERS ABANDON FILI3USTER WHEN PROMISED ACTION AT NEXT SESSION. Congress Had Been in Session for 304 Days and Except for a Month's Recess, Re-cess, Had Been in Session Practically Prac-tically Two Years. Washington. After nearly nineteen months of continuous session, tht longest ever known, the Sixty-third congress adjourned its second session on Saturday, October 24, after the col. lapse of prolonged efforts to procure cotton growers relief legislation. Leaders in this movement agreed to adjourn, however, only on the condition condi-tion that pending cotton relief measures meas-ures would have the right of way when congress reconvenes December 7. Not more than fifty members of the house and less than a quorum of the senate were in attendance when the gavels fell on adjournment without day. The second session of the Sixty-third Sixty-third congress was one of the longesl sessions in the history of the United States. The session convened December 1, 1913. When it adjourned it had been in session 304 days, exclusive of the recess from December 23, 1913, to January Jan-uary 12. 1914. Except for a month off in 1913, congress has been in almost al-most continuous session since Decern ber 2, 1912, practically two years. The first s-ession of this congress lasted from April 7, 1913, to December 1, 1913, a total of 239 days. Adding this to 304 days of the second session gives the Sixty-third congress a total of 543 days. The following are the statistics ol the bills ordered in this session: Senate Sen-ate resolutions, 472; senate bills, 6,641; senate joint resolution, 196; senate concurrent resolutions, 33; house joint resolutions, 372; house concurrent resolutions, res-olutions, 50; house resolutions, 648; house bills, 1,037. The senate received about 5,000 nominations. nom-inations. Twenty-four peace treaties were ratified. The total amount of money appropriated was $1,115,908,-; $1,115,908,-; 777.26. The most important of the laws enacted en-acted at this session were the federal reserve act, the repeal of the free tolls provision of the Panama canal act, the Clayton antitrust act, the Alaskan railroad act providing for the construction construc-tion and -operation by the government of 1,000 miles of railroad, and the war tax bill, intended to provide $107,000.-000 $107,000.-000 to make up the loss in revenue caused by the European war. Among the other measures of importance im-portance passed at this session were the following: Law regulating cotton future sales on stock exchanges. Appropriation of $20,000,000 for river and habor improvements, the money to be spent at the discretion of the government engineers. Law giving the city of San Francisco Francis-co the right to take its water supply, from the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yo-semite Yo-semite national park. Law limiting the labor of women in the District of Columbia to eight hours a day. Agricultural extension act providing for co-operation between department of agriculture and state agricultural colleges. Act providing income tax of 1 per cent of the gross annual income of railroad rail-road corporations in Alaska. Act reorganizing diplomatic and consular service of the United States. The Jones Philippine bill, which declares de-clares the purpose of the United States to recognize the independence of the Philippines at some future date, was passed by the house. |