Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-24
NATION 8 CAPITAL
DESERTED CITY
BY TONIGHT
Congress Quits To-Day, and the
President and Big Officials
HE to the Country.


gress due to close its doors ~ o'clock
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 iarg-
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 10 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,
TO attend the centennial celebration
there on Thursday. He is due back
here on September 4 to attend the
opening session Of the ffteenth In
ternatlonal 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. Sec
rotary Knox is already en- route to ia
pan: Secretary Fisher leaves for
Mill
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 a portion of his
summer on Broadway, while Secretary
Of Agriculture Wilson will get back to
the farm" at Treanor, Iowa and Score
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 SUI
pervision of the chief clerks and heads
of bureaus who were unfortunate
enough not to file their applications for
leave in time.
This session OF congress has been the
"talkiest" in the history of the govern
ment. The completed Congressional
Record of the session will number ap-
proximately 10000 pages, or 26,o0o,000
words. It is the longest record of them
all
No statement Is yet available as to
the amount of money appropriated by
the first regular session Of the sixty
second congress, but careful estimate
shows that this still is a billion dollar
country Despite the attempts of the
Democrats to economic, II is apparent
that the billion mark has been reached.
Probably it has been overtopped.
Appropriations Of Billion.
The appropriations Of the last session
of the sixty first congress were $1,O2S,-
100000 in round figures. Democrats on
the appropriations committee after
hurried perusal of the appropriation
budgets as they we're whipped into
shape. believe they will beat this rec
ord perhaps by $25,OOOO0O.
Much Of the work OF the session has
been devoted to the consideration of
the tariff bills and the annual appro-
priauon 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