River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-06-04
NEW MONEY LAW;
CONGRESS QUITS
SENATE PASSES THE CURRENCY
BILL AFTER FILIBUSTER.
THE PRESIDENT SIGNS 1T
Both Houses Then Rush Through the
Remaining Business and Ad-
iourn Just Before
Midnight.

| urday afternoon, after having been in
operation since noon Friday, the fill
buster against the currency bill went
to pieces, the conference report was
adopted and the measure was signed
by President Roosevelt, who gave the
pen with which he wrote his name to
Representative Wilson of Chicago.
Senator Gore, the blind orator from
Oklahoma, had the floor when the
filibuster came to an end having
talked two hours and ten minutes.
1t had been arranged among the trio
Of directors that Senator Stone was
to follow Gore and later on Mr.. La
| Toilette would make another effort
to break into the ring. For once at
least Gum Shoe Bil1'' was not right
on the job. No one seemed to know
just where he was putting in his time,
but the Republican leaders were on
the alert and seized the opportunity
AIdrich Engineers the Coup.
| Senator Aldrich, the resourceful Re-
publican leader, was attending strictly
to business, and as soon as Mr.. Gore
| concluded his remarks he secured the
floor and Immediately moved to pro-
coed to a vote.
| La Toilette and Stone were both
out of the chamber, and there was
nothing in the way. Earlier in the
day, with characteristic foresight, Mr..
Aldrich had provided that the vote
should be taken by yeas and nays.
A roll call was actually in progress
before La Toilette or Stone could be
notified, and there was then no way
of preventing vote.
The folly of the whole f1libustering
proceeding was sufficiently shown
when the currency bill was passed in
the senate by vote of 43 to %.
The Democrats voted solidly against
1t, and with them were only five Re-
publicans, La Toilette, Brown, Borah,
Bourne and Hepburn. Senator Kit
fridge and one or two other Republic.
ans were paired against it, but they
did not go on the record.
Congress Adjourns.
The first session of the sixtieth con
| gress adjourned Saturday night at
11:50. Legislative work ended early
| in the evening and while President
| Roosevelt was engaged in signing the
last grist of bills, the senate took
| quiet recesses and the house INDUCED
in the customary levity in the line of
singing, flag waving and speechmak-
| ing.
The sudden action on the part of
the senate in adopting the conference
report on the currency bill and thus
sending that measure to completion,
| served to galvanize both branches Of
congress into a swift working gait
that brought final adjournment up to
matter of a few hours.
The house quickly swept aside the
consideration of small, unobjected
bills, and resolutions that had been
| occupying its time, and brought the
omnibus public building bill-the
piece de resistance among the legis-
lative features of the session-to the
fore.
The regulation 40 minutes debate
and the filibuster roll call demanded
by the Democrats were held, and the
great pork measure reached it's final
passage. There were inward prayers
Of thanks all over the place.
Last Big Supply Bill.
The general deficiency bill, the last
of the big supply measures and which
this year carries the heavy appropria-
lions for public buildings and sites,
came along next No difficulty was
found in putting the bill through early
in the evening.
The government employees liability
bill, strongly urged by the president
and Secretary Taft, had a narrow es-
cape, but urged by Senator Depew, it
finally went through just before the
| senate recessed for dinner
Senator Beveridge seized the oppor-
tunity to push his omnibus terri
| tories" measure through the senate
when it convened at $3.50 after a re-
| cess. The bill, previously passed by
| the house, carried miscellaneous legis-
lative projects for the territories.
The measure had encountered
heavy objection for several days in
the senate and went back to the
house amended in several particulars
| That body agreed to the amended bill
without conference.
President Appears at Capitol.
President Roosevelt and his party
| including Secretary Loeb and cabinet
officers Root and Garfield, appeared
| at the capitol at nine o'clock, just be-
! fore the resolution to adjourn at
1850 was adopted, and went at once
to the presidents room, just off the
marble lobby of the senate. A series
of conferences with the vice-president,
Senator Aldrich, and several leading
senators were Immediately com
menced over the various measures to
receive the signature of the executive
before ADJOURNMENT
President Roosevelt signed the ON
nfbus public building bill, the general
| deficiency bill, and the government
| employees bill, and then with his cab
met officials plunged into the consid
Grafton of the budget of local bills and
measures of minor Importance that
awaited him, turning them off rapidly,
as fast as he became satisfied a. to
their contents.