The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-01
WHAT CONGRESS- HAS DONE IN
 LAST SESSION Senate Has Indu,.ged Mostly in Hot Air ard Long-Winded
 Orat0ry House, on Other Hand H1s En- acted Many Bills of Public
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(srecial from United Press )


 Washington. March IA review of the last session of the 61st Congress which terminates at noon, Saturday. shows that the House has enacted an unusually large number of bills of pulp lie importance. The Senate, however. presents a record of much talk and little action. In 35 executive days: the House has not only disposed of the Is giant appropriation bills. aggTegat- ing about ss9O, .o0o but also the fol- lowing bills: Canadian reciprocity; permanent tariff board; appor. .ionment Of representatives for the next House, (the Crunpacker bill. fixing the mem presently: selecting San Francisco as the site for the Panama-Pacific exhi- bition of 1915: the Moon bill cod;fying the Judiciary laws; the Mann bill es- tablishinE permanent form of gov ernment on the Canal zone; the Low ment of buildings abroad for Ameri- can embassies. legations and consul ates; the Subway pens on bill appro- priating about s45.000.O00 annually. The first two of these were a part President raft. The Executives plea for ship subsidy. or ocean mail bill was disregarded.
 Among the thousands of other meas ures that will die with the session are
  which investigated the Ballinger-Pln- shot controversy. and the resolution to give Congressional thanks and he rank of a retired rear admiral to Cap tain Robert E. Peary. as discoverer of the North Pole.
 gation which so far have failed to be acted uron by the House include one by Wilson. Dem. Penn), as to the prosecution of Mexican political refu- gees in the United Sta es; by Stan Icy. 6em.: Ky2, to investigate the Neb.). to secure information as to an alleged "coffee trust.T
 Arong the other measures which the House has passed is the Mann bill providing for inspection of locomotive boilers. and he bin by Represent tative disclosure of secrets of the national defense.
 The Moon bill for codifying of the laws relating to the judiciary. as it passed the House. contained two fea- by Representative Mann. Rep.. ID increasing he salaries of the chief justice and associated Justices of the Supreme Court Of the United States, ny $2.0ce each. raising them to $15.oeo Garrett, (Refn.. Tenn ), providing that TO corporation could remove suits from the State to the Federal courts on the ground of diversity of citizen ship
 The Senate allowed nearly three months of the session to pass without doing any work of importance. Speeches took the place of legislation. The Lorffner case Furnished unlimited material for the consti .utional lawyer and the orators. The resolution for the election of Sena tors by the peo- ,1xat a n fn Q oa< furnished good fields for oratorical revels
 Nearly all the bills passed by the Senate concerned the building of dams or bridges across navigable streams. individual claims against he govern ment. District of Columbia laws, and about 50 relating to land claims.
 The Senate passed the Gallinger ship sursidy bill and also the following bills. all of which also were passed Exposition to San Francisco: appro- priating g coo 600 for a Lincoln me- norial in this city: for inspect 'on of locomotive boilers; for the purchase of diplomatic establishments: author izing the use of an army transport to ferers: Hobson act for the punishment of military spies.
 The record vote on the election of Senators. yesterday. and the disposal of the Lorfmer resolution today re- moved two troublesome ques ions.
 No mention has been made in the Senate of the report ot the committee that conducted the Ballinger- Pfnchot investigation.
 The bill for Congressional reappor- tionment lies buried in some commit tee pigeon hole
 In the last three days of the session the Senate faces two months work on propositions and various important matters.