Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-08-26
Noisy Ending of Extraordi-
nary Session.
TAFT YfTOES TIE COTTON BILL
The President Objected Especially to
the Attempt Of Congress to Add
Iron, Steel and Chemicals
as Amendments.

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binary session OF the Sixty-third con.
gress convened on April by Presl.
dent TAFT To consider reciprocity with
Canada came to an end at 3.02- O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Almost at the same. instant Vice
President Sherman and Speaker
Champ Clark let fall their gavels and
simultaneously declared the senate
and the house respectively to stand
adjourned sine die.
The last business was the receipt
aud reading in the house of the presi.
dents message ye;oing the cotton
steeLcliemical tariff revision measure.
This was received and Immediately
read and, without any effort to- pass it
over the veto, was referred to the
committee on ways and means There
1t will lie till next December when
congress meets again in regular SEES
sion.
AS soon as the presidents veto had
been read the Democratic leader. Me-
Underwood, announced that. inasmuch
as the Democrats did not have a suffi-
cient number of votes to pass the bill
over the veto, 1t would be referred
to committee
The veto was received with noisy
demonstration. There were scarcely
one hundred members in the cham
Der when it's reading was begun. Re-
publicans applauded and Democrats
laughed, the latter demonstration com
ing over the presidents statement
that the cotton schedules had been
revised without proper investigation.
Mr. Underwood's motion for refer.
ence of the whole question was agreed
to without objection
Both houses convened at noon with
all plans perfected for adjournment
The following senators and represen-
tatiyes constituted the committee to
wait upon the president and notify
him that congress had completed its
business: Senators CulIom, of Illinois,
Republican, and Martin. of Virginia,
Democrat; Representatives Under.
wood, of Alabama; Dixon. of Indiana,
Democrats: Mann, of Illinois, Repub-
lican. The committee paid it's formal
call at the White House shortly after
congress convened.
The senators and representatives
left in town. a wide gap in their ranks
having been made by the departure
of the more impatient ones. were
slow in arriving at the capitol. Some
of them came with their grips and
satchels prepared to, make a quick
getaway.
For the first two, hours of the SEES
sion the house marked time on the
president and senate. and waited on
both the president and the house In
the senate a little miscellaneous leg
islation was disposed of. and at 1880
recess was taken until 2 P. M.
few senators drifting over TO watch
the proceedings in the house.
The house whiled away the time
largely with little details under sus-
pension of the rules. but kept In ses-
sion continuously. There was small
attendance. but much confusion, which
evoked vigorous pounding of the
speakers gager and frequent calls for
order.
The president came to the capitol
to sign bills in the closing hours, in
accordance. with immemorial custom,
The first Of the cabinet officers to ap-
pear Was Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, who arrived at las P. NJ.
ahead of the president.
President Tafts arrival at his room
at the capitol nearly emptied the SEN
ate. the vice president and senator's
Joining in the ewlcome.
The president was in a jovial mood,
and referred happily to the trip on
which he win start for Rochester, N.
Y, and for his summer home at Bev-
erly Mass, where he will gain a rest
before leaving on his long tour across
the continent
Cotton Bill Vetoed.
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