The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-06
IlRIFF BILL PASSED,
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
Game Of the Senator's Who We're Loud in Their
DenunciatiOn of the Bill Finally
Fell Into Line
extraordinary Session of Congress Finally AdiOurns and the
Long Agony of Revision Is Over.

return to the White house through a
| driving storm.
The signing Of the bill had been pre-
| ceded by a busy day, both in the house
/ and senate. Meeting at 10 o'clock, the
| senate devoted four hours to final debate
on the measure. At o'clock the vote
| was taken on the adoption of the con-
/ ference report. The senate then adopted
| Mr.. Aldrich's concurrent resolution pro-
| viding for a reduction of the duties on
various manufactures of leather to meet
| the views of western senators who have
been defeated in their efforts to obtain
| protection for hides
! Senator McCumber's resolution provid-
| ing additional rebate regulations for the
/ bill, amended at the instance Of Senator
McLaurin to include a provision for free
: cotton bagging, was adopted without d.
vision.
Six o'clock was agreed upon by the two
houses as the hour for final adjournment
Senators lOitered about until the arrival
of the hour. A resolution offered by Sen
ator CulbersOn, expressing the apprecia-
ton OF the senate for the able and i'm
partial manner in which the vice presi-
dent had presided over the session, was
MIR Sherman thanked the senate for the
courteous treatment extended to him at
all times.
Wishing the senators a happy return
to their homes, he declared the eXtraOrdi-
nary session of the Sixty-first congress
adjourned without day
House Proceedings.
The house devoted the last day of the
/ special session to perfecting the tariff
/ bill and transaCtlng mass Of routine
/ business.
Speaker Cannon announced his commit
tee appointments, and they were received
/ with varying degrees of satisfaction.
| The concurrent resolution amending the
leather schedule of the tariff bill was
adopted without a dissenting vote. The
Ts.r
the drawback provision and placing cot
( ton bagging on the free list, previously
| adopted by the senate, had no such luck.
/ On the claim of Chairman Payne that II
was not in order. il was consigned to the
committee on ways and means.
A half hour remained before the ap-
/ pointed hour of adjournment, and the
{ time was dragging SO heavily that by
/ direction of the speaker, the hands of the
{ clock were set ahead twenty-five -T11ifi-
utes
Before adjourning the house Speaker
Cannon thanked the members for their
service during The session
The speaker said;
Representing as we do, in the aggre-
gate, ninety millions of people, scattered
as the population is. from the Atlantic
ocean to the Golden Gate, and from the
northern boundary to the southern bOun-
Diary; producing as we do One-third of
all the products of all the civilized world.
} ii is but natural when the chosen rep
U
] people come together, with varying inter
I ests. with virile constituencies, that they
should disagr as to the proper policies
I that should govern the enactment of leg
/ islation Out of that disagreement comes
compromise. Legislation is impossible ex-
/ cept by the vote of a majority. and the
majority cannot agree without COmprO-
mise.
Up to the People.
THE majority is responsible from time
/ to time for our legislation. We have per
| formed our duty to the best of our abil-
I ity. At times the contests have been
warm, but there is one good thing about
| representing the American population.
l When the contest is over and the legis-
/ latiOn IS complete. unless it is objection
/ able. the people of the country conform
I to the provisions of the legislation, and
we move on.
And as representatives, whatever the
] contests have been, the feeling passes
away when the contest is over.
Il thank you, and the hour has arrived
! for adjournment. Wishing you a safe jour
ney to your homes, health and a safe re-
turn. nothing is left for me, under the
provisions Of the concurrent resolution,
/ but to declare the first session of the
| sixty-first congress adjourned without
dav."
The actual time Of adjournment was SIS
] p. m. The members did not indulge in
/ the usual hilarity which marks the close
/ of a session and they filed sOlemnly out
/ exchanging here and there a goodbye and
| best wishes for a pleasant vacation.