Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-24
NAT|ON'S CAPITAL
DESERTED CITY
BY TONIGHT
Congress Quits Today, and the
President and Big Officials
HE to the Country.

EIPSS que TO ElDSt It's lbtiS at , - tlpNh
this afternoon, early today senators and
representatives paid their bills at the
different hotels throughout the city and
the noise of the slamming OF trunk lids
was heard from Capitol Hill to George
town.
Not to be outdone by members Of
congress. President Taft laid his plans
to leave the city on the sos train for
Beverly, Mass, the summer white
house
He will be accompanied by the larg-
est clerical force Beverly has ever seen,
the present situation demanding extra
helpers during the summer. Secretary
Carmi Thompson and Assistant Secre-
taries Rudolph Forster and Thomas
Brahany will accompany the president,
In addition to a small army OF minor
clerks, secret service men, reporters and
others The president will remain IN
Beverly only until next "Wednesday,
when he will leave for Columbus, Ohio,
10 attend the centennial celebration
there on Thursday. He is due back
here on September 4 to attend the
openine session of the fifteenth In
ternational Congress Of Hygiene and
Dermatology.
Cabinet Heads Go, Too.
Following the example OF their chief,
the cabinet officers will lose little time
In leaving Pennsylvania avenue. SEQ
Rotary Knox is already en- route to ia
pan; Secretary Fisher leaves for
Hawaii tonight; Marion, Mass. will see
Secretary Nagel tomorrow; Secretary
of the Navy Meyer already has his lug
gage packed to return to Hamilton,
Mass; the attorney general has bark
ened to the call OF his summer place on
Long Island, as has also Secretary
Stimson. Postmaster General Hitch
cock will spend at least portion OF his
summer on Broadway while Secretary
Of Agriculture Wilson will get back to
the farm" at Treanor, Iowa. and Secre-
tary MacVeagh will rusticate in Dub
lin, n. II.
Bureau Heads Behind.
The official work Of the departments
such as can not possibly be dispensed
with. will be carried on under the su-
peryision Of the chief clerks and heads
Of bureaus who we're unfortunate
enough not to file their applications for
cave in time.
This session Of congress has been the
'talkiest" In the history Of the govern
ment. TIE completed Congressional
Record OF the session will number ap-
proximately $4,000 pages, or 26,ooo,0oo
words II Is the longest record of them
all.
No statement IS vet available as to
cy,,,,,t ~ r,opcy approDriatpd nv
the first regular session Of the sixty
second congress, but a careful estimate
shows that this still is a billion dollar
country Despite the attempts Of the
Democrats to economize. It is apparent
that the billion mark has been reached.
Probably 1t has been overtopped.
Appropriations of Billion.
The appropriations Of the last session
of the sixty first congress were $1,02S-
900 600 in round figures. Democrats on
the appropriations committee, after
hurried perusal Of the appropriation
budgets as they were whipped into
shape believe they will beat this rec
ord perhaps by S25,oOOOOo.
Much OF the work of the session has
been devoted TO the consideration of
the tariff bills and the annual appro-
priation measures The fact that the
house was Democratic and the senate
and president Republican has brought
numerous deadlocks. both on tariff and
appropriation legislation, and when the
end Of the fiscal year came on June 80
It found the larger budgets still pending
either in the senate or house or in con
ference
President Taft twice vetoed the leg
islauve appropriation bill and once dis
approved the army bill The redraft-
ing Of these required time and ocCa-
stoned some hard feeling The Demo
cratic house passed six bills to revise
the tariff, Not one Of them became a
law and millions OF words of oratory
ana many months labor comes to
naught unless the Democrats can con
vince the country during the approach
ing campaign that the party should be
given complete power in order that il
may be untrammeled in its work of re-
yising the Payne law
The tariff bills passed by the house
include those revising the wool. cotton.
steel and sugar schedules and a com
panion measure to the sugar bill which
opposed the extension of the excise tax
The DemoCrauc-insu coalition
in the senate was rospons ibIe for send
ing the wool and the steel bill to the
president He vetoed both of them
The sugar, excise tax and cotton bills
died natural deaths in conference ana
the chemical bill failed Of passage in
the upper chamber.
Some of the things actually accom-
plished during the session which closes
today are as follows.
Appropriations OF Approximately 81
600, 900 600 although only one battle
ship was authorized, and there was no
pork barrel public buildings bill