Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-03-04
LAST DAY FIFTY
NINTH CONGRESS
House Did Work
in Same Old
Way
SENATE TOOK A RECESS
Immediately After Conven-
ing---Ship Subsidy Bill Will
Not Be Resurrected.

Washington, March 4.--Both Houses
Of Congress met at $3.50 O'Clock today
for the last sitting of the session OF
the Fifty-ninth Congress The attend
ance was slim, both in the House and
the Senate. Those present showed
signs of fatigue due to almost con-
tinual meetings since last Saturday
morning.
House Was Kept Busy.
The House proceeded as If the en-.
tire session was still before it, but
the Senate finding itself with
quorum and with all the necessary
routine business disposed Of, took
recess a few minutes after assem-
bling and it was at once evident that
no further serious effort to secure ac
tion on the ship subsidy bill or upon
any disputed measure would be al
tempted
La Toilette Railroad Bill ain the Air.
The only important measure aside
from the ship subsidy bill, which was
"in the air. was the La Toilette
railroad employees bill.
Adjourned Sine Die.
The Senate adjourned sine die AT
1918 o'clock and the House seven
minutes later.
Error Delayed Adjournment
The final adjournment was delayed
slightly by an error in the enrolment
of the La Toilette Bill regulating the
hours of service for trainmen. The
bill had been enrolled in advance by
agreement of the conferes and it was
found that change had been made
In the phrazology which necessitated
re-enrollment of the measure.
Agreed to Bill.
The Senate agreed to the confer.
| ence report on the bill limiting the
hours of service of railway employees
| as agreed upon by the conference com
mittee. The House also agreed to the
conferees' report and in both Houses
the adoption was made unanimous by
vote. The agreement limits ~ uahs
/ service OF railway telegrapners to nine
hours with the provision that the re-
4 uuirement may be extended as to any
particular cases when a prupeI show
ing Is made to the Interstate Com
| merce Commission.
| No Crisis in Treasury.
! pn,,aenpf,i;yn u,u,o, Nf;,,,o
sofa, chairman of the committee on
appropriations announced in the
House today that instead of facing a
crisis in the treasury at the close Of
the fiscal year of 1905 which seemed
imminent at one time, there would
be a surplus of $20,OO0,0OO at that
time. The total appropriations made
at the present session of Congress he
said aggregated approximately $919,-
! 94S,679.
Ship Subsidy Bill Dropped.
The Ship Subsidy Bill which has
been before the present Congress
more or less and in prominent way
for the past two years and for the past
two days in an acute form, finally re.
ceived quietus in the Senate at II
o'clock today when Senator Calm
ger, in behalf of the measure, rose
and finally announced his decision
not to press it for further considera'
ton
President Signed Many Bills. ny
President Roosevelt arrived at the
Capitol about II o'clock. Thirty bills
we're signed by him there before noon
The delay in engrossing the bill lin
iting the hours of railway employees
prevented the President completing
his entire task before noon, and II
was exactly three minues after Il
o'clock when he attached his sigma
ture to that measure This was the
, last bill he signed and he then left
the Capitol.