The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-22
CONGRESS STOPS WORK FOR HOLIDAYS Both Houses Recessed Yes terday Until January 3 UNDERWOOD REPLIES Presidents Message on Finance and Departmental Matters Is Read.
 Tariff Board Report Is
 Ordered Printed

Congressional index:
 Both houses recessed until January 3.
 Senate met at F noon.
 Presidents message on flnanIe and dc, partmental matters read. | House met at 12 noon
 Presidents message read Tariff boar1 report ordered printed. Won a victory in the urgent deficiency bill conferenre report, bill passing both houses and signed by President.
 Senate: Senator Brown of Nebraska predicted the Senate would pass tine House Sherwood service pension bill after the holiday recess January 3. Senator Root of New York introduced bill making effective the further fur seal treaties with Japan. Russia and Eng land
 Both houses adjourned, the House at 2:31 o'clock and the Senate at 2:34 o'clock.
 Washington, December 2l.-(SpeciaL)- Both parties in the House contended that the Presidents wool message and the re- port of the tariff board indorsed their re- spective views, before the House decided to print the tariff boards report. MT. Underwood suggested that the dem ocrats shculd welcome the printing of a report which the President says shows a necessity for revising the wool tariff downward
 Immediately Representative Payne re- torted "The republican side ought to join in recommending the printing of d report that negatives the principle of the Underwood bill of the last session, whicn proposes al valorem duties on wool. If the democrats get any comfort from this report they are welcome to it.'
 MT. Underwood replied
 "There can be nothing but comfort in it for the democratic side" A victory for the House in the confer ence over the urgent deficiency appropria- ton bill was contained in the report of the conferees today. Out of $S21,S74 in aps propirations attached to the bill by the Senate, only $93,000 remained when the conference committee reported an agree ment. The portions dropped out included s5O0,000 for the census bureau, $5O0OO for mine investigations, $110,0O0 for the medi- cal department of the navy, and an extra months pay for employees of the House and Senate.
 The bill as finally agreed to carries s2,457,756. Both houses adopted the report and sent the measure to the President It was the first of the big supply measures of the congress A wool bill framed according to Pres lident Taft's recommendations on the tariff board on schedule K will be pre- pared by the House republicans on the ways and means committee.
 Republican leaders in the Senate who have similar plans suggested today that the Senate and House republicans would get together during the holiday recess and have a bill ready by the time the democrats have measure ready to re- port.
 Regular republicans in the Senate say they will frame a bill that, will put the issue of protection clearly up to the progressives and force them on record in favor of a protective duty equal to the difference on the cast of |producton here and abroad,
 Some of the Senate leaders professed great concern as to where the pro- gressives would stand on tie demo ; cratic wool bill which is sure to, come. over from the House. The general opinion seemed to be that the progress sive republicans would take their choice Of the two measures and use < the strength which merger with the dem ocrats would give them to force amend = ments to tile republican bill. Progress sive leaders say they are anxious to revise schedule K at this session of Congress and they promise to use ali the practices known 10 Senate tactics to do it. est 't'
 1t seems to be agreed that the pro- gressives will take no step in framing a measure now. iii M
 Most of the progressive leaders will
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