Arizona republican., 1911-03-05
SIXTY FIRST
 PASSED ON Tumu|tu0uS Scenes At Close
 of the Session ALL SUPPLY BILL SAVED
The Tariff Board Measure Fell in the Last Ditch A Hope Almost to the Last That the New Con gress Might Escape the Extra Session

Washington, March 4.-The Sixty first congress. needless of one of the most important legislative tasks set before it, came to an end shortly after noon.
 Within an hour following, the presi- dent issued a proclamation calling the new congress to meet in extraordinary session at noon on Tuesday, April f. Then he will submit for the ratifica- tion of the house, overwhelmingly democratic, and the senate, barely re- publican, the ratification agreement with Canada. The Mccall bill, carry ing that effect, passed the house, but met today, at the hands of the senate, its death, which had been freely pre- dicted. The president, warned, if not entirely recOnCiled to the fate in store for the measure, was at the Capitol to witness the Obsequies The bill was not called up at any time in the sen ate for d moments consideration. The permanent tariff board bill was forced to passage through d reluctant senate at S:30 this morning and was hurried to the house, there tO be strangled by a democratic filibuster.
 The president, in his room reserved In tne senate lobby, heard the news with resignation. Congress provided funds to continue the work of the temporary tariff board another year.
 It was at the request of the demo- .f l.t Mir. Taft fixed the date for an extra session in April. The new democratic ways and means committee of the house, which serves as the new com mittee on committees, will meet on Monday to take up it's labors.
 A full caucus of the democratic members of the house will not be held until April g. Meanwhile the plans of the extra session will be developed.
 There is little doubt now that the democrats of the house will undertake to revise at least two or three sched- ules of the Payne Aldrich tariff act, and there is every reason also to be- lieve that these bills will be favOrably received in the new senate, the in creased democratic and insurgent strength of that body giving a major ity for the principle of a further re- vision of the tariff downward
 It is also supposed that so long as the new schedules do not flagrantly violate the principle of protection, the president will not withhold his ap- proval of them. It is announced. how ever that if a general revision in viO- lation of the protective policy should be inaugurated, he would not hesitate to use the power of his veto.
 How long the extra session will last is problCmatical. .Whilerhe new con gress may promptly ratify the reel procity treaty. some democrats favor withholding confirmation until two or three of the new tariff schedules are ready. If tariff differences should arise in the new senate. the session unquestionably would be a long one.
 In this connection, however, an in teresting fact was developed today, the presidents constitutional right to bring the session to an end in case the two houses of congress could not agree on time for adjournment. Such action. it is admitted, would he revolutionary and it is thought there is any likelihood that any president would care to invoke that power.
 The old congress ended amid scenes of excitement. The house was in dis cord at times and in the closing hours. when a successful filibuster against the tariff board bill was in progress, it became almost riot. Mir. John son of Kentucky. glaring anSrily at the speaker, shouted above the general uproar of confusion. a challenge that but for the speakers gray hairs would carry the wordy disagreement to more serious conclusion.
 The speaker. his sparse gray hair bristling with rage, declared, with an angry blow of the gaVel on his desk, that no member need let his gray hair be a bar to anything he had to offer
 The house stood and cheered..
 In the senate filibuster, conducted bv owen of Oklahoma, threatened final approval of four great appropri- ation measures within half an hour of the time set for adjournment. Sena- tors of both parties appealed in vain to owen to stop talking and let the supply bills through. The senator said he had set out to talk to death resolution approving the constitution of New Mexico. cOnferring upon that territory the last rights of statehood.
 When the president arrived at the Capitol at 10:3O. the last bills rushed through the house in the closing hours found statehood holding the senate at a standSti1 and the tariff board bill