Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-03-07

SPENT TWO BILLIONS.

Washington, March 3.-Ihe re-
cordbreaking Fifty-ninth Congress
will end at noon tomorrow.
With the conclusion of its labors
many men who have been long IL
public life will retire after years in
active service. Among these in tn
Senate are Senators Spooncr, Berry
Blackburn and Carmack, and in tn,
House veterans like Grosvenor, Lacey
and Wadsworth. There will be man!
other changes in the Senate and Hous'
next winter and this, coupled Will
the work accomplished by members
OF the present Congress, will make to-
morrow n spirited day at the Capitol.
The first. session Of the expiring
Congress was remarkable last winter
for the great amount Of work whicl
it accomplished and the enactment
of important rcformatory measures
like the Railroad Rate law, the Pure
Food law, the Meat Inspection law,
the Naturalization law and similar
measures, in addition to invcstjga-
tons held and inquiries ordered.
While the second session docs not
measure up to the first in the mater
Of work accomplished, it must be re
membered that the two sessions can
not be Justly compared in ills resp, c.
in view of the fact that the first SEES
sion continued until June 30 OF last
year, while the present scssion.is--four
months shorter. Both sessions have
been practically billion dollar sessions
and the Fifty ninth Congress will 60
into history as the first Congress thai
has made appropriations aggrcgating
$4,000, 100000.
There were 157. days in the frs.
session, and tomorrow will end a
session lasting II days this winter.
Up to today the total number of bills
introduced in the House has been 25,
500, while the total number intro
duced in the Senate has been S,626.
This includes both sessions of Con-
gress. OF the House bills thus enum-
Grated, 20,51S were introduced dur
ing the first session last winter and
there were $3.50 bills introduced in
the Senate during the opening session,
OF this Congress.
As an indication Of the actual work
done the records show that up to this
evening $40 bills have been report
ed to the House during both sessions
Of this Congress, while there Were Z,
$40 Senate bills reported during the
two sessions. During the first session
Of this Congress there were 4l6 pub
lie laws and 1878 private laws enact
cd Thus far this winter there have
been 152 public laws enacted that
have been signed by the President
and enrolled, in addition to 2,010
private bills signed and enrolled up
to today. In addition to this the
present session, according to the Off
cial clerks, has passed about 100 other
bills of a public nature and about 2,
600 private bills which have not yet
been set in type at the Government
Printing Office, and which have not,
therefore, been returned to the Capt.
tol for the official accounting, To
this must be added the grist of minor
measures which is being showed
through the two houses during the
time that they are yet in session.
The principal matters pending are
the conference reports on the Sundry
Civil, Agricultural and Deficiency
bills, the Ship Subsidy bill in the
Senate, the La Toilette Hours-of
vice bill, which was amended in the
House, producing disagreement be-
tween the two houses in conference
for further parleying, and the pend
ing 1G-hour bill.
The principal work OF the session
has been the Brownsville matter, the
Subsidy fight, the Appeals bill strug-
gle, the passage of the immigration
and Repatriation laws, the amend
mcnt of the Denatured Alcohol law,
the fight which has only just begun
over the Presidents public land poll
cy, AMI which will he resumed with
bitterness by Western Senators and
members next winter, in addition to
tie general grist of minor public and
private bills as well as some bills of
Importance but not be classcd with
the great reform measures. Sun.