Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-10
CONGRESS HAS REST
SIXTY,FIRST SESSION CLOSED
and ANOTHER CALLED
FOR APRIL 4TH.
Reciprocity Agreement With Canada
Must Now Be Settled-Net Result of
Session Just Past Not Brilliant
Record-Senator Bailey Created Wild
Excitement by Getting Mad.

Excitement by Getting Mad.
one of the most important legislative
tasks set before it, came to an end
shortly after noon Saturday. Within
the hour following President Taft is
sued a proclamation calling the new
congress to meet in extraordinary SEES
sion at noon on Tuesday, April A. At
that time he will submit for ratification
to house overwhelmingly democratic
and to senate barely republican the
reciprocity agreement with Canada.
Out of the smoke of the closing
battle in congress emerge these results
of larger interest:
Positive Results.
Provision of $3,OO0,ooo for the for
tification of the Panama canal.
Provision for two new battleships
Recoditication of the judicial code
regarded as most important for the
amelioration of the laws delays.
Creation of forest reserves in the
southern Appalachian and White noun
tains
Provision for the construction of en-
bassies and legation buildings abroad.
Provision requiring the inspection of
locomotive boilers.
Creating Robert E. Peary rear ad-
ro1 I'm bo ;e+
and formally rendering thanks of con
gress to him.
Creating a committee of five SEN
ators and five representatives to in
vestigate conditions in Alaska.
Negative Results.
Failure of bill fixing canal tolls and
settling form of government for Pan
anna canal zone.
Failure of congressional reapportion-
ment bill based on the new census.
Failure of, the Canadian reciprocity
agreement and consequent call of an
extra session.
Failure of the permanent tariff board
bill, which passed the senate but was
killed by filibuster in the house.
Failure of the resolution to admit to
statehood Arizona and New Mexico by
a tilibuster in the senate.
Failure of the proposal to increase
the rate of postage on the advertising
sections of the large magazines; but
commission provided for to investi-
gate the subject.
Failure of the resolution providing
for the direct election of United States
senators.
Failure of the general age pension
bill.
Failure to act ON the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigation reports.
Failure to enact the ocean mail sub
sidy, passed by the senate alone.
Failure of the effort to unseat Will
liam Lorimer as senator from Illinois
on the ground of alleged bribery in his
election.
Senator Bailey Resigned.
Senator Joseph w. Bailey added to
the excitement and episodes surround
ing the adjournment of the Sixty first
congress by resigning his office as SEN
ator from the state of Texas, and few
hours later withdrawing his resigna-
ton. Angered by the attitude of his
democratic colleagues in favoring the
resolution approving the new constitu-
ton of Arizona, to the radical features
of which he has voiced his opposition,
Mr.. Bailey wrote his resignation and
took it to the vice president with the
request that he announce it to the SEN
ate. Mr.. Sherman declined. Thereupon
the Texan telegraphed it to Governor
Colquitt of Texas, who promptly re-
fused to accept it.
Resignation Causes Discussion.
Meanwhile the resignation caused
excited discussion about the capitol,
many of Mr.. Bailey's democratic col
leagues expressing surprise at Ibis ac-
ton, and those who talked with him
urged him to reconsider. Not a few
prophesied that he would think better
Of his decision CATER he cooled off,
and would withdraw the resignation.
He did withdraw it.
Taft Takes Trip South.
In the month IS interim between now
and the assembling of the extra session
President Taft expects to spend sew
eral weeks in the south, most of it in
resting. March 10 he will address the
southern commercial congress at At
lanta. After his visit to Atlanta the
president probably will go to Augusta
to spend week or 10 days in taking
life easy, playing golf and forgetting
for a time all about the cares of state.
Monetary Commission Appointed.
Vice President Sherman appointed
Senators Flint of California and ITALIA
ferro of Florida, neither of whom will
be members of the next congress, to
on the national monetary
National Capital Notes.
Senator and Mrs. Poindexter will