The Sentinel=record., 1911-03-05
CONGRESS ADJOURNS And
SPECIAL SESSION CALLED

bristling with rage, declared, with a
vicious blow of the gavel on the desk
that MO member need let his gray hair
be bar to anything they had to offer.
The house stood up and caeered.
In the senate filibuster conducted
lby Senator Owen, of Oklahoma,
Threatened the final approval of four
of the great appropriation measures
lup to within half an hour of the time
set for adjournment Senators of both
parties appealed IN vain to Senator
Owen to stop talking and let the sup
ply bills go through The senator
said ne had set out to talk to death
the resolution approving the consti-
Itu.lon of New Mexico and conferring
upon that territory theAlast rights of
statehood.
SO it was that when President Taft
arrived at 10:30 O'Clock to sign the
last of the bills rushed through in
the closing hours, he found statehood
holding the senate at a standstill and
the tariff board i, absolutely block
aiding the progress of the house.
The president was appealed to by
the senate leaders to use whatever in
iiuence he might have with Senator
Owen. The senator declined to see
the president. He said Arizona must
como in jointly with New Mexico and
have her referendum and recall" con-
stitution approved at the same time
or the appropriation bills would fail.
Both filibusters accomplished their
immediate purposes.
The senate did not approve the con-
stitu.ion OF New Mexico and the
house did not pass the tariff board
bill.
When the flibusters had been
brought TO a close, the time remain
ing was too short and the time hon.
ored custom OF turning back the clock
was resorted to. Thrice in the house
the hands of the two clocks were set
lack, each time fifty minutes. The
senate resorted to tais parliamentary
device, but once the hands being
pushed back a full half hour. The
senate adjourned at 1920, and the
house at 1887.
All the big appropriation bills final
ly managed to squeeze through in
time fcr approval by the president.
The work OF whipping these measures
into final shape and engrossing them
upon parchment as the permanent
laws of the land taxed to their utmost
the wonderful systems at the capitol
and at the government printing Of
fee Eight of the bills carrying more
taan s700,000.0O0 we're rushed
the last forty eight hours of the ses-
sion
When the excitement and uncer
tain'v as to tue fate of the appropria-
ton bills mad died away and the vice
presidents gavel had fallen in ad-
journment of the senate, the news
flew through the Corridors that Sena
tor Bailey, of Texas. lad resigned. 1t
was said he was 'r'ned" over the ac-
ton OF his dems q attic colleagues in
net following lis leadership in the
past few DAYS The rumor was dis
credited at first. Lut it was confirmed
by Tie senator himself. The sensa-
tion In The senate wing soon spread
tn the house aad fer Ii time the vicis-
STUDIES cs the old session and the
speculation as 10 the new was lost
sight os entirely in the discussion of
this new development
The tumnlt of the closing hours of
the session following al night sittings
both in the senate and house died
away as the last of the appropriation
bills had been disposed of, and in
both branches there were the usual
scenes OF nonpartisan felicitation. Gal.
leries, crowded to the doors. watched
the quick transition from snarls and
heated words to smiles and hand
shakes and expressions of good will.
The end of the Sixty-first congress
held a far deeper significance than
the surface scenes of wrangling and
wild disorders. For the house 1t
meant the turning over of control to
the democrats after sixteen years Of
republican supremacy. 1t meant the
stepping down of uncle Joe from
his position Of power at the speakers j
desk to more humble place in the
ranks OF the minority It means the
retirement to private life Of small
army of republican members who
throughout the session ha borne the
taunts of the democrats and the So
briquet OF lame ducks.
Some hoped o,h with mournrful
mien, while others, loyal to the ad-
ministration. jauntily hurried away to