Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
61ST SESSION OF
CONGRESS- ENDS;
CANNON IS TAME
Speaker Wants No Hard Feelings
Taken Away by Home
Going Members
LAST ACT is TO START PROBE
Cores Charges Cast Damper on
Closing Scenes in House
and Senate
LAST ACT is TO START PROBE

WASHINGTON, June 25.-Speaker
Cannon in a statement issued Just be-
fore the house adjourned declared that
he had nothing to apologize for as a
member Of the house or as a speaker,
and he presumed each member could
express similar sentiment.
This has been at times strenuous
session." said the speaker. "Virile
men, acting in a great representative
body, earnest, positive, sometimes in
doubt or otherwise, say that which, If
conditions were different, they would
not say. So that, In sharp contests,
when sober second thought comes.
broad men realize that positive men
don't hold responsible colleagues which
under the influence of passion or
otherwise speak in detrlment that
which they would not say in moments
when they were cool.
LAS we pass from Washington to
our homes 1 shall go putting behind
me the contests through which the
house has passed, without malice
TAFT is PLEASED
President Taft walked out of the cap
itol at II o'clock tonight smiling.
The second session of the stxty-frst
congress had just adjourned and he
had signed practically all matters of
legislation that had been placed before
him. He received congratulations from
his cabinet and from members from
both branches of congress upon the
passage of most of his pet measures.
Mr.. Taft shook hands all around ana
continued to smile.
The last measure signed was joint
resolution to authorize the secretary of
war to loan tents to the Appalachian
exposition, to be held in Knoxville,
Tenn. in September, which Mr.. Tart
expects to attend.
Each house of congress marked its
closing hours by voting for an invssti-
CATION of the McMurray Indian con-
tracts. Instead of the usual scene Of
comparatively undignif1ed relaxation
from the business of legislation, both
houses devoted exceedingly serious at
tention to the charges of bribery at
tempted, and other forms of improper
influence made in the senate yesterday
by Senator Gore of Oklahoma and sub
seuuentlv in the house by Representa-
tive Murphy of Missouri.
Two separate Investigations are pro-
vided for, one in each house. Each
body passed a resolution creating a
select committee of five members to
pursue the inquiry to the bottom dur
ing the recess of congress and to report
whether any of it's members are, or
have been, interested in any of these
contracts.
TO PROBE CORES CHARGES
Until a late hour today it looked
rather as if the matter would go by de-
fault, but as soon as the two houses
reconVened at p m, after a recess
since afternoon, the matter came up
with a rush, and crowded galleries
listened with intense interest to the
which ended in the vote to
probe the charges.
During the proceedings in the SEN
ate in the marble room" adjoining
the senate chamber, were former SEN
ators Long of Kansas and Thurston
of Nebraska, who have been mentioned
in connection with the Indian con-
tracts, as well as J. F. McMurray of
McAlester, Okla, whom Senator Gore
named as the principal owner Of the
Indian contracts in question.
Speaker Cannon appointed the fol-
lowing committee to conduct the house
inquiry: Messrs Burke, South Dakota.
chairman; Campbell of Kansas, Miller
of Minnesota, stephens of Texas and
Saunders of Virginia.
Vice President Sherman announced
the following committee to conduct
the senate investigation: Senator Jones
of Washington, chairman; Burton of
Ohio. Crawford OF South Dakota.
HugneS Oh Cololduo anu eiSS VI mis-
sissippi.
President Taft arrived at the capitol
about 10 o'clock with various members
of the cabinet and they went to the
presidents room, where the chief ex-
ecutive stood by to act on more i'm
portant bills coming to him from the
two houses.
The closing procedure was of the
usual order The gavels of the pre-
siding officials fell at approximately
the agreed hour and the second session
of the sixty-first congress was at an
end.