White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-01
CONGRESS
ADJOURNS
IMPORTANT BUSINESS ACCOM-
LISHED IN CLOSING MOMENTS
OF LONGEST SESSION IN HIS
TORY OF THE COUNTRY.

its differences on Monday, invited
President Taft to the capitol once
more and at 1870 o'clock in the af-
ternoon the second session of the
Sixty-seeond congress came to an
end.
The end was marked with a re-
turn of harmony and an end of fill
busters. Without a roll call, Sen
ator La Toilette won his fight to
force the senate to pass the Penrose
resolution directing an inquiry into
the Archbold-Penrose-Rooseyelt con-
%troversay, involving Standard Oil
contributions to the Republican
campaign of 1904, and eorrespon-
dence or financial transactions be-
tween Archbold, George w. Perkins.
Colonel Roosevelt and members of
congress. The committee. which is
directed by the resolution to make
the inquiry, however, will not be-
gin before October.
Senators Chamberlain. Martin,
Swanson and Culberson, after fight
ing bitterly for the payment of the
Estate claims" embodied in the gen
eral deficiency bill. permitted the
senate to yield to the demands of the
house and strike these claims from
the bill. In return for this conces-
sion, however, they received the
promise of support from other sem
ators next winter, when the claims
again will be pressed for payment.
With these old claims, amounting
in all to $500 900. went the extra
months pay for congressional en-
ployes, which the senate demanded
and the house refused to give. In
the last half hour of the session,
while President Taft waited in his
room to sign the measures of the
dying congress-, an attempt was
made to rush through a special
resolution giving the employees the
extra month" but the house again
blocked it.
The president signed the gen
eral deficiency bill at 4:10 o'clock,
making certain the payment of the
1880, 900 deficiency in army pay,
the $4,000 for the Gettysburg
memorial celebration of next
year, the s350,000 for extension of
customs work, and scores of other
important payments that hinged on
the passage of the bill. The last
measure to which his pen was put
was a bill disposing of lands in
the Colville Indian reservation.
The session 'izzled out" in the
senate, to use the words OF one
observer. A comparative handful
of members occupied their seats,
and a call for a quorum in either
the house or senate would have
forced a return of the embarrass-
ing situation of last week.
A wild outburst of applause
greeted Speaker Clark's announce
ment of adjournment as his gavel
fell in the house. The floor immedi-
ately became an animated scene,
members bidding each other good
bye and and shaking hands. Old
time political foes buried their
differences, and all feuds APP
parently we're forgotten in the gem
eral leavetaking.
Just before he announced the ad-
journment, Speaker Clark addressed
the house:
"As the hour of adjournment
approaches" he said, 1.-The speaker
desires to congratulate the house on
having reached the end of n OF
the longest and most laborious ses-
sions on record Congress has been
actually in session more days since
December than any congress that
ever sat. The speaker desires to
thank all members of the house
on both sides of the big aisle
which separates us politically, but
not as friends or patriots. for the
uniform courtesy with which they
have treated the speaker. | hope
that we will all reach home safely
all return, refreshed and inyigorat
ed, for our work next winter"
Tb1r1 -ar "a m avon conra nf CQn a
tors on the floor of the senate wher
the resolution for adjournment a
1870 O'Clock was put through. A
recess was taken until 4:10. Thef
began a twenty-minute wait.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota
awake the senate for a moment tC