The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-04
SENATE AND
 HOUSE ADJOURN
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 Washington, March 1.-The Senate adjourned sine die at 12:1s p. m. B, the Senate clock it was 11:55. The last bill signed by the Presideu was that creating commission to in vestigate second class mail matter with special reference to the maga zines.
 The House, at 12:35, recessed for i! minutes to permit Speaker Cannon tt make a farewell address. The Hous, adjourned at 12:41. Washington, March 4.-Less tEan two hours after the 61st Congress had closed, President Taft, this afternoon, issued pro- clamation calling an, extra session to meet on April 4, for the specific
 purpose of passing the Canadian
 reciprocity bill.
 Washington, March 4Failing tc enact either of President Taft's fa- vorite measures-Canadian reciprocity and the permanent tariff board bill the 61st Congoress shut up shop this afternoon and turned over the affairs 
 which has Democratic House and a greatly reduced Republican majority in the Senate
 The tariff board bill went through both houses. but in the closing hours the House Democrats killed it by fili- clustering against Senate amendments;
 The reciprocity bill. which passed the House. was treated with supreme indifference by the Senate. which re- fused to consider 1t. The finance committee having reported 1t without it was allowed to die at the foot of the calendar
 President Taft, in accord with his publicly announced purpose. immed- lately arranged to call an extra ses- sion. He was willing to give up the tariff board but he stood firm in his demand that the reciprocity agree ment be passed. He believes the new Senate will pass it.
 The closing days of the Senate were by filibusters which kept that body in almost continuous session for six daxs.
 In the last few hours the most dra- Owen. Oem.. Okla.), fought freely for the Arizona progressive constitution and prevented the ratification of the New Mexico constitution. This final struggle was so bitter that Senator Bailey of Texas. the Demo-
 
 ignation when all but two Democrats voted with Owen for popular govern ment" Bailey was angered at the deSertion as he had violently opposed the advanced ideas of government in- corporated in the Arizona const tftu- tion.
 AS usual. the final scenes in the Sem ate were quietly enacted but there was much sad taking of farewell of such old time leaders as Hale of Maine, and other members of the Re- publican "Old Guard" of regulars who of Aldrich. whose rule of the Senate ceased last spring. but whose influ- ence was felt until today. was re- garded as an important omission in the picture of the passing old masters of the Legislature.
 In the House the last three hours of the session were the most disor- aerly that body has ever known ac- cording to men who have watched it's work for 30 years.
 :, With Uncle Joe" Cannon welding the iron sceptre of the "Czar of the House" as he did years ago, and a determined Democratic filibuster against the tariff board bill conducted by Fitzgerald, the parliamentary ex- pert of the Democratic side, the mes were pandemonium and at Lines almost complete Generalization.
 In the end, tho Democrats forced the withdrawal If a special rule un- der which the tariff board bill, as amended by the Senate, was being considered by delaying appropriation bills until 11:45 Champagne, of the Ways and Means Committee, amid jeers from the minority side, asked for consent to dispense with the con- of the measure which was granted. The clock was turned back nearly an hour and with Uncle Joe" beating the desk with his gavel, the excitement subsided and the bills were passed through the mill at the rate If one a minute. Worn and weary with the strain oe ] continuous session of over 26 hours. with but the fire of youth in his eyes the shine of youth in his ynarled 75 year old frame, and about 10 be deposed from the seat he had filed for eight years. took the bit in
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