Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-05
CONGRESS ENDS
DELIBERATIONS
SlXTIETH SESSION PASSES
INTO HISTORY
SENATE MEETS TO CONSIDER
NOMINATIONS TODAY
House VIII Not Meet Again Until
Legislative Body Is Convened in
Extraordinary Assembage
March is Next
rBy Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON March 4.-The Six
tieth cngress ended at noon today. The
final act, though unofficial in so FAR as
the house was concerned, took place III
the senate chamber, where both houses
witnessed the incoming of the new ad-
ministration.
The senate will meet at noon tomor-
row to consider President Tafts nom
nations, but the house will not convene
again until the extra session is begun
March Is.
The senate met at $40 o'clock, but
the proceedings were confined 10 the
most formal work. wee PresluelI
Fairbanks delivered an address IN re-
Spouse to resolutions thanking him 1or
his conduct of the office.
Immediately after adjournment OF
the Sixtieth congress the proclamation
of the president calling the senate IN
extraordinary session to consider pres
idenrial appointments was read.
Utterly lacking in all the stirring IN
cidents usually marking the closing or
q congress, the house at 1852 O'Clock
was declared by Speaker Cannon to be
adjourned without day. Having con-
vened at 10 o'clock in the morning, the
two hours were spent in clearing up
conference. reports and passing a rev
bills of no great public interest.
The special committee appointed to
wait on the president, as is the custom,
reported he had no further communica-
tions to make. The speaker wished the
members peace, health and prosperity,
and the house adjourned.
Expenses Keep on Increase
During the session Chairman Tawney
of the appropriations committee IN the
house declared the expenditures OF the
government had at no time, except in
war, increased as rapidly as during the
last eight years.
This condition was caused, he de-
clared, by popular and executive de-
mands upon congress for approprla-
lions for the exercise of rights and
functions belonging exclusively to the
states and by the abnormal and un-
necessary war expenditures during the
time of peace.
Expenditures during the last eight
years, including the fiscal year 1910,
he said, were equal to $7,O07, S39,1S3, and
he declared that at the end of the pres
ent fiscal year there would be deficit
of $150,000, 900. He severely criticised
the executive branch for submitting
estimates of expenditures far in excess
of estimates of receipts.
He placed the appropriations at 81
044, ,29S for the Roosevelt administra-
ton.
Mr.. Livingston of Georgia, the rank
ing minority member of the committee,
declared congress should be commented
for the millions it had refused to APP
propriate, Notwithstanding the pres
sure brought to bear by the executive
and the badgering of innumerable in
terests on all sides clamoring to get
their hands into the treasury"
Senator Culberson submitted state
ment covering the last seven years,
stating the increase of appropriations
for 1910 shows an increase over those
of 1903 of more than 1928, 100000. or
ury's estimated expenditures for 1910
exceeded 1902 by over $375,O0O, 900, an
increase of 60 per cent in eight years
Speaker censures Clark
In the failure of Minority Leader
Clark to present the usual resolutions
to the retiring speaker, Mr.. Payne, the
majority leader, presented them, and
Mr. Cannon in reply alluded to Mr..
Clarks attitude, saying:
After all is said and done in the af-
fairs of parties of men, what is needed
in the public service is virile men; men
who favor policies that they believe in
and have the courage of their convic-
tions. Whether it be the majority or
the minority-and minority virile and
patriotic is as necessary as is a major
ity in a government of the people
strong men in public life as well as in
private life strike above the belt and
tell the truth.
"As one member of this house. and
under the tongue of good report as well
as of evil report, ! have performed my
duty to the best of my judgment with
out regard to personal consequences to
me. ! thank the members for their CO.
operation, approval or criticism, when
approval or criticism is not fulsome on
the one hand or captious on the other
81 wish you health and prosperity in
dfvidually. Some of you are not mem
bers of the incoming congress. You
join the great body of citizenship in
private life; you will perform your du-
ties there as well, no doubt. You may
return again. [ can look in the faces
of many of you who depart from pub
lie life, on both sides of the house, with
sorrow at your departure. May peace,
health and prosperity attend your foot
steps"