The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-23
EXODUS BEGINS
 AND WASHINGTON SEEMS DESIRED
Adjournment of Remarks ably Strenuous Congress
 Is FeatureIess
TAFT'S COTTON BILL
 VETO IS RECEIVED
Everybody Happy and In Pleasant Mood As Democrats, Insurgents, and Republicans Say Good
 Bye to Each Other

Bye to Each Other Washington. August 22.--The first ses- sion of me sisty-secoud Congress ended today. and immediately the exodus or
 members began. President Taft joined with several hundred tired legislators in
 the hegra and tonight the capital was
 practically deserted officially Every train
 bore senators and representatives on their homeward journey after being together 12l days and setting the liveliest pace
 of any legislative session in years.
 The adjournment was featureess, de-
 spite the strenuous activity that had gone
 before. The President vetoed the cotton
 tariff revision bill, just as he had vetoed
 its two predecessors, the wool and free | list bills. The veto went only to the 1 House, in accordance with custom, and there it's reception was marked by demo-
 cratic laughter and republican applause. | Democratic Leader Underwood, amid | demonstration, formally thanked the few republican members who voted with dem- ] ocrats to pass the revision tariff bills. l Democrats ran across the aisles to shake | hands with the republican insurgents. The | cheering and pounding of desks on the democratic side was protracted. As soon as he could be heard MT Underwood an nounced, the democrats did not have the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the bill over the Presidents veto, he would merely move the printing of the veto and accompanying papers and their reference to the ways and means com
 mittee, of which he was the chairman. The House agreed to this fixed course. With the committee the matter will rest until the whole subject of tariff revision ! legislation is renewed at the regular ses- sion which will convene December | Every body was in a happy mood In
 both houses, but the usual vaudeville pro- ceedings that have featured the few min utes following adjournment of the
 House for years were missing today. The
 nearest approach was the singing of -'Auld 1 Lang Sine" by group of younger menu bers, led by Hefin of Alabama. Kincaid rof New Jersey Byrnes of South Caro- ! lima and Garrett of Tennessee But their
 voices did not inspire common chorus. The galleries In both the House and Senate were crowded.
 Taft at Capitol
 President Taft spent half an hour at the capitol, making 1t social affair as | well as a business one. Occupying the | presidential room in the rear of the l Senate chamber, he was given an en- l thusiastic ovation by senators of all | shades of political complexion, as well 1 as by representatives who drifted over | from the House to meet him. Vice President sherman was among them, | aha lrA 1ao 1Z
 The President later busted himself with 1 the task of signing the eleventh hour | measures, approving all that were pre- scented.
 The Senate spent restless day Within 35 minutes after it had con vened 1t took recess until o'clock l to await the action of the House on | the belated veto of the cotton bill. Then came an executive session to con | slider two minor nominations and an | other recess until 2:45 o'clock. Sem ators gathered in the aisles of the Sen 1 ate chamber during this recess and ex- changed parting freetings.
 Progressives and regulars, republican and democratic, mixed their hearty good wishes
 In the House there was the same con- fusion only more pronounced. Mir. Underwood of Alabama, democratic leader of the House, shared with Speaker Clark congratulations over the party's achievements in the first dem ocratic Congress in 16 years. Repre- sentative leaders and others beamed with good will.
 The last measure introduced in the House was a resolution marking back l to King Louis XVI It provided for the | erection of tablet in the rotunda of | the capitol in Washington in com meration of King Louis intervention in behalf of this country. The resolu- l ton. like a number of others, went over ! to the regular session for considera- 1 tion.
 Both Vice President sherman and | Speaker Clark delivered valedictories. expressing appreciation, extending con- gratulations on good will shown in a | strenuous session and bespeaking
 health and happiness during the re- | cess Then officially, at o'clock, but
 actually two minutes later in each house, the extra session Of Congress | was declared adjourned
 1 The session record of measures intro
 duced 1403s bills and ASA resolutions in
 inc House and S296 bills and 5s resolutions | in the Senate Only a few of these were
 filing the office of president pro tenn.
 to take the place of Vice President Sher- | ran in temporary absences. Fast Legislation
 Senator owen of Oklahoma precipitated
 the fastest legislative work of the clos ing hours. He asked for the passage of l a Dill authorizing Roenan Wanaluakcr and others to construct in the entrance to New York harbor permanent memorial | to the North American Indian. l The biIl had passed the House. but tho
 Senate clerks, anticipating no action on 1t. had carried 1t away to the vaults. With less than 12 minutes remaining hurried search was made, the bill found and
 sent back to the House by messenger.
 who lost no time on the journey. l Just at o'clock, officially, or 3:o2 by
 correct time, as the Vice President was in the midst of his farewell remarks to the
 Senate. the clerk of the House appeared 1 in the door of the Senate with the c>'m-
 pleted bill signed by Speaker Clark. The signalling of the clerks and the fut,srrny
 of the. completed bill at the head of the
 aisle did not stop the fallen gaveI, how
 ever, and the bill will rest until signed
 by the Vice President and President next l December.
 | In the cosing hours of the session of lthe House Representative Kinkead of New Jersey, amid democratic applause, made a
 speech advocating Philippine independence
 and predicting that democratic Con