The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-23
CONGRESS-
 ADJOURNED
EXTRAORDINARY SESSION FIN. lsHEs WORK AND MEMBERS
 HURRY ON WAY HOME.
Adjournment Was FeatureIess-un- derwood Thanks Insurgent Re- publicans Who Voted With
 His Party. lHsf

Washington, Aug. 22.-The frs
 session of the Sixty second congress
 ended today and Immediately the ex
 odus of members began.
 President Taft joined witt
 several hundred tired legislators ir
 the hegira and tonight bore senators
 and representatives on their home
 ward journey after being together l2l
 days and setting the ltveliest pace ol
 any legislative session in years.
 The adjournment was featureless
 despite the strenuous activity that
 had gone before. The president ve toed the cotton tariff revision bill just as he had vetoed its two pre- decessors, the wool and free list bills. The veto went only to the house. in accordance with custom, and there It's reception was marked by democratic laughter and republican applause.
 Democratic Leader Underwood, amid a demonstration, formally thank ed .he few republican members who voted with democrats to pass the revision tariff bills. Democrats ran across the aisles to shake hands with the republican insurgents. The cheer fno and no,,0dfuu nf dagsv. ov tha democratic side was protracted. AS soon as he could be heard, Mir. Un. derwood announced. as the democrats did not have the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the bill over the presidents veto. he would merely move the printing of the veto and accompanying papers and their reference to the ways and means com mittee, of which he was the chairman.
 The house agreed to this fixed course. With the committee the mat ter will rest until the whole subject of tariff revision legislation is re- newed at the regular session which vii! convene December i.
 Everybody was in happy mood Tn both houses, but the usual vaudeville proceedings that feature the few min ules following an adjournment of the house for years. were missing today. The neare approach was the sing. ing of "Auld Lang Syne" by a group of younger members. led by Hefiin of Alabama. Kinkhead of New Jersey, Byrnes of South Carolina, and Gar rett of Tennessee. But the voices did not inspire common chorus. The galleries in both the house and senate were crowded.
 President Taft spent naif an hour at the capitol, making it a social at- fair as well as business one. occu- pying the presidential committee in the rear of the senate chamber he was given an enthusiastic ovation by senators of all she des of political complexions as we'll as by represen- tatiyes who drifted over from the house to meet him.
 Vice President sherman was among them and one of the first to shake hands. The president later busied himself with the task of signing the eleventh hour measures, approving all that were presented.
 The senate spent restless day. Within tnirty.fiye minutes after it had convened. 1t took recess until two o'clock to await the action of the house on the belated veto of the cot ton bill. Then came an executive session to consider two minor nomi- nations and another fecess until 2;45 o o'clock. Senators gathered in the alsles of the senate chamber during this recess and exchanged parting greet ings.
 Progressives and regulars repupil- cans and democrats, mixed thsir near ty good wishes.
 In the house there was the same confusion. only more pronounced. Mr. Underwood of Alabama, democratic leader Of the house. shared with Speaker Clark congratulations over the party's achievements in the first democratic congress in sixteen years. Republican Leader Mann and others beamed with good will.
 The last measure introduced in the house was resolution marking back to King Louis XVI. It provided for the erection of tablet in the rotunda of the capitol in Washington in com memoration Of King Louis interyen-