The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-23
GAvELS DESCEND
AND SENATE AND
HOUSE ADJOURN
Extraordinary Session of Six
ty-Second Congress
Comes to End
SPEAKER CLARK IS
Is HIGHLY SATISFIED
Declares Democrats Have Es-
tablished Record and Re-
deemed Every Promise
They Made

WASHINGTON, Aug 22.--With the
simultaneous smack OF gaNel in Senate
and House. precisely at > o'clock tbs
afternoon. the first, or special session,
the Sixty second Congress passed into
history
IT promises to become chiefly fam
ous for the things il was baked in ac-
comprising by the veto power Of the
president.
II vas a Veto. practically, That
brought the session To An end the
Veto OF the cotton bills. which also
carried downward revision Of the steel
and iron and chemical SCHEDULES.
With the echoes or that veto
swishing through the House the body
adjourned sine die, IN the Senate the
session merely faded away. In neither
chamber was there any Of the Gus
tomary rush ana excitement, There
vas not a quorum present IN the
House or Senate and the galleries
We're bat half flied.
President TAFT went through The
time ~honorsd formula of going up the
capitol and passing upon slieh Bills
az were important te be signed at
once IN his room just off the Senate
chamber. But there We're no import
ant bills. The last one had been
Neteed--cottou before he Ieft the
White House
Clark Issues Statement
of greatest significance in the evil
denee of the day Mas the statement
OF Speaker Clark, issued after ad-
3oarument. which viii be set over
against the Veto messages and weigh
- and compared with them By the
~ sItle OF the country in passing judy
nent on the work Of the session
In the House the extra session died
without struggle The veto was read
aiuid Republican applause, neno-
cratic Leader Underwood announced
the Democrats had net the tao~third
majority. even with the eight pa
triotle Republicans who voted for the
Reduced rates to carry the OH over
the veto. Speaker Clark congratuiat-
ed the body on Work well done wish
cd all God speed, and let his gae 81
fall at ! T. Al. In adjournment until
next Deoemher.
Little business was transacted at to-
Gay $ session, the work having been
Cleaned up fast night. The Stanley
steel investigation COMMITTEES was
given authority In have its hearings
tttttrsett and Chairman Stanley VIII
remain here to outline the work of
the committee when IL resumes in
Nest'eations next October
Statement BY Speaker Champ Clark.
At this session the Democrat have
mace record which has surprised or
trends. and @9ustoafssissd o&- enemies.
II has put heart and hope into Demo-
Gratis everywhere The extra session
~ Congress WAS extraordinary not
only In the seusa Of being a special
session called hV the President hut
aso IN the amount and quality Of the
work done in the house by the COM
hfne3 fec-aocrafs and fffsurgeifts ana
the combined Insurgents. Democrats.
and Republicans in the Senate. and es-
peciaily by the unanlinity Of action de-
Neloped by the House Democrats.
1t was predicted freely. voeiferouslv
enthusiastically and confidently by the
stand-pat press and orators that we
would go to pieces. On that account
ana by reason of that hope they re-
joiced that the extra session Of Com
Eress was called, SO that we might go
to pieces at the earliest possible date.
But We have sorely disappointed all
their expectations They even set the
date when we would go to pieces.
which was the day of the Democratic
caucus, on January 10. but unfortunate
ly for them in that caucus everything
was done unanimously. The next
morning, wfeR they found We had
dicttons to HE contrary. they had 10
pinch themselves to seq II they were
awake. They then said surely We
would so to pieces as soon we
reached the tariff question. but again
they We're doomed u disappointment,
and we did not 20 to pieces at ak
We are more thoroughly united in the
House at the end of the session II
possible than at the beginning.
Set Good Example.
We have set a good example to
Democrats everywhere. Sneered at FOR
Years as party Of mere negation, and
as being utterly lacking in ability for
constructive craftsmanship, We passed
through the House more constructive
legislation, and better than has passed
through any House in the same length
or time in twenty years we have set
me pace in that. regard for future.
Houses
We redeemed every promise made
IN order to carry the elections in 1910.
We have economical. We passed the
reciprocity bill. the wool tariff bin. the
free list bill, the cotton bin with the
Senate amendments, which included
the iron and steel schedule, and the
chemicals schedule. we submitted for
ratification a constitutional amendment
providing for popular election of Sena-
tors of the. United States, we~passed
a Dill for the publication of campaign
expenses before the election: we liber-
allied the rules. making the commit.
tees elective by the House; we passed
a resolution to admit new Mexico and
Arizona, and we passed large num-
Der of other bills of more or less i'm
portance. 1t is q record OF which we
may well be proud, and Of which we
will sweep the country in 1912.
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