The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-24
.SOLONS HURRY TO
ADJOURN CONGRESS
SEEATE HOLDS NIGHT SESSION
TO REJECT MAIL SUBSIDY
FOR STEAMSHIPS.
HOUSE IS kXTRAvACANT
Votes $4,000 to It's 1oe Employees
Despite Scandal Talk From Some
emhers--Presen Session
Expensive One.

! Washington. May 23-Although the
figures ON the total appropriations for
/ The present session OF congress are
incomplete from careful estimates to
night the indications are that they
will exceed 81 020, 900, ,000, This Is
$lG0, 900 900 in excess Of any previous
s ssion. The largest increase over
previous years are found in the post
office, pension, naval and army ap
preparation bills.
When the senate met today there
was a general understanding that
nothing would be done to delay the
final adjournment of congress, that no
legislation will be anacted beyond
completing consideration Of the grea.
supply bills.
The senate and house are proceed
ing under diversity Of opinion on the
question OF final adjournment This
afternoon Senator Hale confidently
announced of the floor OF the senate
that an adjournment next Monday at
2 o'clock was quite feasible, but this
opinion had scarcely gone forth when
Speaker Cannon made known his view
that ii would be impossible To com
plete the business of the session be
fore next Thursday, and when the
house took a recess tonight until Mon
day morning with a number of import
ant conference reports pending, many
senators, including Hale, were com
PEELED to acknowledge that It would
be impossible to complete the session
on Monday. There has come to be
some little feeling between the two
houses. bur IL Is not of sufficient ins
tensity TO create any serious compli.
cations.
For the second time within "a hours,
the house tonight, following a discus
sion OF two hours. rejected the mail
subsidy provision for ocean steam
ships. Previously similar action was
taken with respect to the senata
to the postoffice appru
priation bill reducing the number OF
days upon which weighing OF mail
are to be conducted with the result
that the postofIice bill for the third
time was sent back to conference, all
other features OF the bill being agreed
TO by unanimous consent
Altogether the day was busy one.
reports on the omnibus
pension claims bill and on the fortiil
cations appropriation bill were agreed
to; resolution providing for the re
mission Of part Of the Chinese indem
nifty growing out of the Boxer troubles
omtion increasing the pay of over a
of the house employees and
The conference report on the
bill cnlarging homestead entries In
was rejected, thereby finally defeating
the bill, and report authorizing an
extension of a dam across the Rainey
river in Minnesota was passed over
the presidents veto.
Consider Reports at Night.
Senator owen Oklahoma, spoke
on his joint resolution providing that |
an amendment to the constitution for |
the election of senators by the people |
be submitted to the states for ratifiea |
tion, and moved vote on the passaga
Of the measure. but the motion to sent |
It to the committee on privileges |
and elections was carried by a vote |
IF 33 to 20.
Intellectual efforts We're made by |
Senator Beveridge to pass the omni |
1us territories bill, and by Senator |
Ncwlands to secure consideration of |
lis resolution creating an inland |
commission Just before |
he close of the days session Senator |
iale announced an agreement made IN |
Executive session to take a recess un-
il =. m, with the understanding |
hat the night session would be devo |
ed exclusively TO considering the con |
erence reports and such measures a
'ould be taken up by unanimous con |
sent Senator Hale had previously |
state his belief that congress could |
adjourn at , O'Clock Monday after
loon.
The house today voted s23.000 In |
'ayor of los of its employees. from ser
seant-atarms down. the money |
practically to an inereasa
IN salary. There already had been |
granted these and other employees anl
extra monthss pay which is usual at |
The end of the. session.
Too Many House Employees.
This new proposition was character |
zed by some speakers as scandal. Mr..
Shefley. of Kentucky. maintained that |
there were three times as many EN-
ployes as were needed The house. |
he said could not affaird to talk about !
economy in the lecture heads of the
several departments unless it beganits