The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-27
No Joyous Sound Accompanies
Adjournment Of Congress.
Customary Complimentary Res
olutiOns Are Lacking.
MORE THAN A BILLION.
Promised Saving in Appropria-
lions Fail to Materialize.
Taft Programme Was Carried
Out Almost Entirely.

Washington, June 27.-The first
regular session of the Sixty-irst con-
gress was brought to a finish at IL
o'clock Saturday night. The end saw
the Taft progressive program carried
out practically in it's entirety.
Coincident with the close of a ses-
sion that has been at times tempest
uous, marked by revolution that has
wrought radical changes in the rules
of the house and accentuated the fac
tional differences of the party in pow
er-but unparalleled in its perform
ance in enacting policy legislation re-
commended by the head of the ad-
ministration, President Taft had in
tended to issue statement. After
starting to prepare it he reconsidered,
or rather postponed it's PRONUNCIATION.
Possibly it was because he did not
want to overshadow Speaker Cannon.
who. in conformity with custom, did
bit of reviewing and eulogizing of
the work done.
President Taft's statement eongrat-
ulating congress as awhole and hold
ing its record up to the country as one
meriting unstinted Endorsement is to
follow as an echo of the session very
soon. The president feels that in one
session as much has been accomplish
ed in the matter of meeting platform
pledges as usually is accomplished in
the whole course of an administration.
He is very proud of the record and
his friends are dwelling upon the fact
that the session has been unique in its
responsiveness to the will of an exc
cutive.
AS to the big things that have been
accomplished, all the essential facts
were known to the country before the
time of final adjournment was fixed.
Signs Harbors Bill.
In the final hours the president
signed the rivers and harbors bill, but
sent a message to congress indicating
that he had made up his mind to do
so practically at the last minute of
time at his disposal so far as that
measure was concerned. In fact, it is
known that up to Friday night the
president had about determined upon
veto. An influence that affected
him in some measure was the plea of
many members of congress whose con-
stituencies are especially affected by
the provisions in the bill, these mem
bers having subordinated personal de-
sire In many instances to help put
through the vitality important Taft
measures, mainly in the way the exc
cutiVe wanted them.
Congress was warned, however,
that it must change it's method of
framing river and harbor improve
ment measures. and announcement is
made that unless reforms which he
suggests are carried out in future
bills the Withholding of executive APP
proval will be justified, even though a
rivers and harbors bill fail AS there
were deemed to be many meritorious
and necessary projects provided for
in this years bill, the many defects
which it also contained, the president
asserted, did not justify, in the last
analysis, postponement of the impor-
tant work.
Post Bank Bill Signed.
The executive signature was affixed
to the postal savings bank bill at 6
o'clock.
The president also signed without
comment the omnibus public building
bill, carrying authorization for i'm
provements aggregating $23, 900, 0OO but
leaving the items of appropriation to
be attended to later, in connection with
the regular estimates of the treasury
department with respect to work au-
thorized by congress.
The one thing left pending, as it
were. when congress adjourned was the
Appalachian forest reserve measure,
upon which opponents in the senate
prevented vote. The measure passed
the house and by agreement it will be
the order of unfinished business in the
senate on Feb. Is, 1911.
For ten days after the president