Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-01
CONGRESS CEASES
FROM ITS LAB0RS
ADJoURNs SINE DIE AFTER CAV
ELS OF PRESIDING OFFICERS
OF BOTH HOUSES FALL.
TAFT APPROVES OF TWO BILLS
President Affixes His Signature to
Rivers and Harbors and Postal
Savings Bank Measure-"White
Slave" Act Adopted.

Washington, d. C.-President w. H.
Taft has congress off his hands. AT
11:04 p. M, June %, the gavels of
Speaker Cannon and of Vice President
Sherman fell in house and senate and
congress adjourned sine die. Tuesday
the president will go to Beverly, the
summer capital, for a rest. The ses-
sion died in song in the house; in sol.
emn silence in the senate chamber.
President Signs Harbors Bill.
An important message from the
president stating that he had signed
the rivers and harbors bill, but would
never again sign another similar one,
enlivened the proceedings in the sem
ate in the afternoon. The president
stated that the river and harbor inn
provements should be made in accord
ance with an approved system, such
as was not followed in the bill, but
that he signed the bill in order that
important improvements would not be
delayed. President Taft also signed
the postal savings bank bill.
The senate adopted the Mann
white slave" bill, previously passed by
the house, which will prevent ship
ping of women and girls from one
state to another for immoral purpo-
ses; receded from it's amendment to
the sundry civil bill providing for
tests of structural steel and the con-
ference report on the bill was adopted
in both houses.
Both houses agreed to the general
deficiency bill, the house agreed to
the pensions appropriation bill passed
by the senate, appropriating $156,000,-
900; adopted the conference report on
the campaign publicity bill, providing
for publication of campaign funds
after elections, and adopted the con-
ference report on the S20,000,000 issue
of certificates of indebtedness to aid
in reclamation projects.
What Congress Spent.
The congress which Just ended has
authorized the expenditure of approx
imately S1,O79,0S7,441. OF that sum,
$160,000,000 covers permanent annual
appropriations. At the last session
the total expenditures aggregated ST.,
O44,000,000. There were then no pub
bills. These now carry a total OF
| S75,000000. Exclusive of the two
measures the appropriations would
equal S1,004, 900, 900. Conferees on the
various money bills have saved 3d..
100000 by whiting down items, thus
reducing by that amount the former
estimate that the aggregate appro-
priations would be S1,0S3, 100000.
The senate and house committees
appointed for the purpose will go fully
and promptly into the charges OF
bribery made in the senate by Sena'
tor Gore when he startled that body
by his statement that attempts were
made to corrupt him with sums rang
ing from $4,000 to $4,000. This ses
sion of congress was prolific in i'm
portant Investigations.
Some important Measures Enacted.
Some of the important measures
that were given sanction by congress
include the revision of the tariff, the
revision of railroad laws, the admis
sion of two new states, the establish
ment of postal savings banks, the
giving of unlimited authority to the
president for withdrawing public
lands for conservation purposes, the
creation of bureau of mines, and the
granting of modified tariff system
for the Philippines. The conservation
measures and the protection of ship
pers by railroad rate bill are the biz
things accomplished for the nation b,
the dead congress.