Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-07-08
CONGRESS THROUGH
SATURDAY NIGHT SAW LAST
OF THIS SESSION.
Many Important Measures Receive Pres
ident's Signature Nearly Midnight
List of Bills Passed at This Session
Are of Vital Importance to People of
Whole Nation-Ca Cannon Forgives.


Whole Nation-Cannon Forgives.
Important measures passed:
Railroad rate bill.
Postal savings bank system.
Statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico.
Publicity, after elections, of campaign
contributions.
Withdrawal of public lands by the
president.
Appropriation of $25OOoO for the
tariff board.
Bureau of mines and mining.
Use of improved safety appliances by
the railroads.
Issue of $2O,oOO,OoO reclamation GER
tifcates.
Reorganization of the lighthouse
service.
Two new battleships.
Additional regulation of the white
slave traffic.
Agricultural settlement on coal lands
Washington, June 25.-"I leave be-
hind me the contest of this winter in
the house with malice toward none. -
With these words, amid perfect
silence, Speaker Cannon, at II O'Clock
tonight, adjourned the house of repre-
sentatives for the second session of
the Sixty first congress. For five min
utes, in low monotone, Cannon spoke
to the house. No other sound was audi
BILE. When he finished the applause was
moderate and the leave-taking of the
members unusually quiet.
The absence of the usual uproarious
termination was surprising to many, but
followed night that was full of serious
work.
Cannon Is Forgiving.
"Where men act in great deliberative
bodies,' said Cannon, "there are some
men, earnest and positive, who say that
which, were the circumstances other
wise, they would not say. So, upon a
sober second thought, broad men realize
that these earnest, positive men are not
to be held responsible for that which,
under the influence of passion, they say
and which they would not say in
moments when they were cool.
:" As this session is about to close,
as one member and as the speaker,
wish to say that I pass from Washing
ton to my home, putting behind me the
contest through which this house has
passed, and go with malice toward
none. / have nothing to apologize for
as member or as speaker. presume
each member of this house can now say
the same. And so the chair adjourns
this house, wishing each member health
during the vacation period, hoping that
we may meet in next December, look
ing not backward, but forward, to the
duties which we must PERFORM
Late tonight a scene that dazzled
old-timers was enacted on the floor of
the senate. AS long as anybody can
remember, when Senator Cullom fixed
his gaze on the vice president, it
was sign of an executive session. He
arose in the usual way and made the
usual motion half an hour before adj
journment, but not with the usual re-
suit.
Senator Hale looked at the beauteous
hundreds in the galleries and observed
that it was absurd to suggest that the
galleries be cleared for a secret SEES.
sion. Other senators joined in the Hale
opinion. The Cullom motion was lost
much to the disgust of the patriarch
from Illinois.
(t.Y1lnY,o nd hDI
number of Illinois appointments they
wished to have confirmed. Their con.
firmation was defeated because the sen.
ators would not discommode the ladies
in the galleries. President Taft will
probably repair the damage by giving
them recess appointments.
Shortly before the closing hour the
senate passed resolution praising the
fairness of the vice president as presid
ing officer. Sherman replied with 6
speech expressive of his appreciation
and gratitude, and announced adjourn
ment.
Taft Winds Up Work.
elm the presidents room," just of
the lobby of the senate, President TAT
put in exactly an hour signing his nam
to bills and holding impromptu recep
tions with various members and sen
ators.
The average value of occupied farr
land in Canada last year was 1880 a
acre, compared with $3.50 the yea
before.
The known petroleum areas of tn
country cover $3.50 square miles an
the natural gas areas 10,075 squar
miles.
There were fewer deaths to tn
thousand of population in Philade
phia last year than ever before in tn
city's history.
Captain Miller Suicides.
San DIEGO Cal ,June 27-With