Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-05-16
LENGTH Of SESSION
Of THIS CONGRESS
MATTER Of RIFE
SPECULATION
Opinions Conflict rs to Wheth.
er Legislators Will Survive
the Dog Days; Length of
Other Sittings.
TARIFF DEBATES ARE
LONG DRAWN OUT
especial Correspondence q. the Herald,


Washington. Mas ls.--Row long
wiil the slNty-accond congress remain
Ia extraordinary session
You may aux the man IN thc moon.
or you MAJ ash q member OF either
hons. 90 congress anc one will bo
able to giy, you about as satisfactory
Oh answer as the other Speaker
champ Clark can't tcll. neither can
Reptcscntatiyr Underwood. the lead.
~ of the maJurii! "a the auas", nor
can Senator rcnroyc. tho leader ul The
senate, and u au} one mere able o.
know. he would have a better knowl.
edge than anyone oifp.
The question affords matter for
speculation in which the public has
AZ much Information as congress a.
self The guessos rang AN the way
from JuN I. whi,h is thr earliest
anyonr has had the trm,rity TO suR-
post. to the dag FOR the ponVcnlng of
the regular session la December. ana
ono guess upon any date between
these two extremes is Just as good as
any other There are mcmbcrs who
predict that tho extraordinary session
viii mcrec with the regular session
on December =, thus cstahlishlng thc
longest continuous session on record
In tho history og the government
Othep fiX the dog days and some
along in Octohoi 81 November
''h, tao houscs being controlled rN
different political part.cs. aud Use
tariff ncing thu subject up ior CON
sidorauou. there 10 promise OF ipt.E
disagrormont between the two bodies.
which means that thc president, hnv-
In. chilled congress into extra session.
VII have that body on his hands per.
haps an summer.
Tho record showa that. Whenever
the tariu question has been up. che
sessions have been prntracted. even
when one party was Ia control ~
both houses. The payno-A ldiicl law
was passed In an extra session lasting
lii days. Tnc pingley bill which pre-
ccdcd II was passed ia l3I DAYS II
required - regular session of Gas
days To enact the Wilson tariff law, %
regular session of 500 dals to pass
the Mckinley bill. aud when the Mills
bill which passed the Democratic
house bat failed IN the Republican
senate. was under consideration. con-
g?css was IA session from December
8. 1857. until October 20 1855, or
Ssl days.
This was the longest continuous
session OF congress on record. aud tl.o
first session of the Fifty-flrst con-
grcss when Tom Reed was chosen
speaker by majority ot three votes.
When the Mckinley bin was passed
was the next longest extending from
December .. 1883 to- october /. 1880.
There was one session, however,
which was longer than either of these
two, but II was interrupted by three
rcCesscs That was the second acS-
sion of the Fnrtioth congress. which
convened ON December :, 1867, and
ala not finally adjourn until Eoyem-
Der 10 1865. 3ih days from the dino
It hogan. There were during this con
gr.ss recesses from July p to Sep
TENDER 81 from September .! To- oc-
tob.r q and from october TO Mo-
vcmbcr 10. when an adjournment was
taken. so business OF Importance
was transacted after July -, although
congress met on September y and on
'fHlbhtA v t7Tlbf W llthN lAli NtiHif'
congress was IN session from March
4. 1861. "a December :. 1861. or ga
DAYS without recess, So that. during
tho two years of that congress, there
were only 20 days that IL stood al
journed for after the second session
finally adjourned nn Nogombcr 10
congress met again in regular short
session on December :. 1858 aud con
tinued IN session until March g. 1863
Tho rhirty-first congress Vac .n
session for SOC DAYS continuously aud
WAS the only one except those men
TONED which passed tho 300 dass
mark. WITH two exceptions Tho see
ond session - the Fiity-cighth con
gr,ss was the shortest long session,
tho Tons session uc,ng the one
which begins IN tho odd Nonfs I,
mstcd onlS fer lii days, adiourulng
on April IS, 1900 both parties poins
anxious 90 begin work on the pr, ST.
dental campaign oi that year The
s'cond session uf the Thirteenth and
the FIRST session or the Fifteenth. the
FORMER i3l DAYS and the latter tor
ltl dnts. Ncr, Ia, only other LONG
sessions which were shorter than the