Arizona republican., 1908-05-31
PHOENIX ARIZONA MAY 31, 1908.
THE ADJOURNMENT OF CON
 GRESS.

II seemed a probability yesterday that the outcome Of the painful and pro- lor-cG cratory of Mir. La Toilette would be the adjournment of congress without the enactment of any curren- cv legislation: that the bill in its un- finished shape would be allowed to g7 over to the short session where in all Likelihood would be displaced by some thing moro elaborate, or dropped a. together.
 The currency bill was not one in which the members of either house were sufficiently interested, to endure the sweltering days of June and to rroI5ng the session far beyond the usual time Of adjournment.
 Probably a majority of the congress- men preferred no currency bill at al. The pending one was offered t. tn" country only as a concession to bait- ing newspapers which have ben charging congress with ~egligea,e.
 Tho Vreeiand-Aldrich hil. an inc'n- rrous mixt,re Of black and vhit- ,',.s not been taken very sori7us--. .tE-- in CT out of congress. The oou'-Fy when 1t w5s assured that i- ,.ou.d lave the law di5not indulge in ~-y seif-concratllattyn oyer it. The dem ocrats. he'd the bill } en talk to death. wcu.i rrolably hay- ;l'a'led iE---eiycs of some checr canp-.-n ,-ate-ial to b used in -i'e coming residential and congressional cleo ti.a. But had the bill calel to earrive the oratory of the gentleman from Wisconsin, if there are any yho advantages for the country they would and advantages for the country would naturally have charged the deprivation of such advantages to MT. La Toilette who is after all. more of a populist and a democrat. tan a Republican, and to .Nessrs. Stone and Gore who are out and o,,t democrats.
 Now that thc adjournment Of con- G-ess, set for 9 week a5o. has finally been effected we may consider brief J what has been accorp isAed in tte lcnS session. h the f-st p,ace the program of the speaker has been fully carried out. but nothing be-oad that has been accomplished. No man can say that any useful legislation has been neglected.
 Congress entered upon it's work with the idea that the United States needed a rest mere than anything else a2d that idea has been steadfast- ly maintained.
 All records were broken in the late sess.on in the matter of bi-ls intro duced, o~er 29CG0. It is. undoubtedly fortunate that only meager propor- ten of them were passed, less than 15O measures, hardly more than the aver age Arizona legislature enacts. .,
 The amount of the appropriations considerably exceeds one billion dol lars, vet this amount would have been -e-LAe Esttttitt II Nll- estimates Ol the different departments had been ac- oeptod and the wishes of a multitude cf bureaus had been given attention.
 Throughout the session. the majori- ty was threatened b. the minority with an appeal to the people at the cary elections. Timid republicans in pio-od the majority to engage 3a the manufacture Of campaign material as Iuajcrities have generally done or the eve Of a national struggle.
 Both threats and prayers were dis regarded. The majority throughout expressed a willingness to so before the voters on such a record as it might make uniHfluenced by the prox- unity Of the polls. There was tc be no dazzling Of the eyes of the multi tude