The evening times., 1911-08-22
Only Business Before Both
Branches Today Was Re-
ceipt of Cotton Veto /.
SPEAKER CLARK DECLARED
DEMOCRATS AAD MADE 5000
Party Has Made a Record That Has
Surprised Its Friends and Dunn.
founded Its Enemies, He Says
Have Set Good Example.

Washington, Aug. 22.-The extra
ordinary session of the Sixty-second
congress marked by the passage Of
the Canadian reciprocity bill, vetoed
tariff revision, statehood and other
important measures adjourned sine
die at 1902 this afternoon. President
Taft, who has just vetoed the cotton
bill, the last OF the three revision
bills adversely acted upon, was pres
ent with the members of his cabinet.
Presiding officers Of both houses
delivered speeches to the members
regardless of party, upon the good
will shown during the session and
expressing the best wishes for them
during the recess of congress.
For the first two hours of today's
session the house marked time on the
president, and the senate waited on
both the president and the house. In
the senate little miscellaneous legis.
lation was disposed of and at 1870
recess was taken until p. m.
Congress at 2 o'clock was ready for
adjournment. Within the hour Presi-
dent Taft's veto of the cotton tariff
revision bill was received and re-
ferred to the house committee on ways
and means where it will remain until
congress reconvenes in December.
The house already had named the
committee to notify the president that
congress was ready to adjourn and
the senate had done likewise. The
veto message, with the vetoed bill,
was referred at one to the hous ways
and mans committee and then con-
gress marked the time to the fixed
hour of adjournment.
President Taft's message vetoing
the cotton bill was read in tthe house
at 2:02 p. M. AS in the case of the
wool and free list bill the president
based his objections to the cotton bill
largely upon the fact that the tariff
board had not as yet had time to
submit report IN the schedule. He
also declared that the cotton bill
was enacteL without any investiga-
ton or information of a reliable char
acter as to it's effect upon the cotton
industry.
Speaker Champ Clark in a review
of the work of the session just ended
had set good example for the Dem
ocrats everywhere and that the party
had redeemed every promise it made
in the campaign of 1910 when the
Democrats wrested the control of the
house from the Republicans.
"At this session the Democrats
have made a repord which has sur
prised our friends and dumfounded
our enemies" said Speaker Clark. cit
has put heart and hope into Dem
ocratis everywhere. The extra ses-
sion was extraordinary not only in
the sense of being a special session
called by President Taft but also in
the amount and quality of work done
in the house by the combined Dem
ocratis and insurgents and the COM
bined Democrats and Republican in
surgents in the senate and especially
by the unanimity of action developed
by the house."
Republican Leader Mann in state
ment issued today giving the minori-
ty view of the work of the extra ses-
sion of the Democratic house, declar-
ed that the net result was to
strengthen the president and weaken
the Democrats and that the Demo-
Gratis had been trying to put the
president in a hole" in the tariff re-
vision legislature and then had been
hoist on their own petard."
Chairman Fitzgerald Of the house
appropriations committee in review
ing the work of the extra session to-
day stated that the appropriations of
congress during the extra session ag-
gregated $301,052. He declared that
no session Of congress has ever run
for so long period and appropriated
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