The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-25
ANOTHER BILLION
DOLLAR SESSION
Promises OF Retrenchment in
Congress Fail to
Materialize.
LONG ON CONVERSATION
Record Will Cover 1900 Pages
and Embrace 10000, 900
Words.
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Washington. August 24-Ano,her
billion dollar session of Congress has
passed into history Despite promises
OF retrenchment in public expenditures
tho Democratic House. in conjunction
with the Republican Senate. managed
to run up appropriations far in excess
OF the Billion dollar mark. At the
last session of Congress with the Re
publicans in control OF both branches,
expenditures footed up TO sl.026.oOo 900.
The House leaders have not yet given
out their figures. but they claim the
appropriations chargeabla 10 them Will
be just a little over a billion
The session was long on conversa-
ton. Tho printed record will embrace
about 10000. GOO words. covering 1900
pages The Senators and Representa-
uvcs. VINO comprise the present House
and Senate will go down in history
as the most verbose statesmen of all
time. The nearest competitor was the
nrst session OF tho hftieth Congress.
whose members contributed millions
OF words that filled $500 pages.
Session II Record Rrenkcr.
The session was also a record
breaker In the number OF bills pre-
sented Nearly $4,000 bills of various
sorts were Introduced. OF this num-
Der the House contributed $4,000 and
the Senate the remainder. y great
proportion of these bills slumbor In
committee rooms and Will never be
heard from again.
with the exception OF the bill pro-
viding n form of government for the
Panama Canal Zone ana prescribing
regulations for the conduct OF the
waterway. the session has been devoid
OF constructive legislation on a large
scale Big issues have been debated.
but without result.
This was duo in large part to the
fact that the House and the Senate are
antagonistic politically. Accordingly
the better part of tho session since
the day OF assembling in Occembe
last has been devoted 10 tockcying for
position In tho presidential rate Of
1912.
Much OF the time OF the House was
devoted TO the consideration OF tariff
bills prepared By the Democrats. Six
such bills were put through the House.
Thcy were all passed 10y the Senate.
Two OF them were sent to the Prcsi-
dent and vetoed None of them cached
the statute hooks. With the cto Of
the wool and steel bills IN. Democrats
abandoned hope OF tariff revision.
President Taft has set his face against
revision where revision does not con
form with conclusions based on SCI
ontinc inquiry in advance.
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Tho House passed several bills affect
ing labor which failed of considerat lion
in tho Senate. Chief among these Is
the clayton bill, providing for Jury
trials In cases OF indirect contempt,
tho clayton anti-injunction bill and
the Sulzer hill. proposing the crea ton
OF department Of labor.
Tho session was prolific Of vetoes by
the President he wrote his disap-
prevail over a: least eleven bills. In
Guiding the wool ard steel tariff Bills
and the legislative bill, which was
vetoed twice.
President TAFT comes out Of tho Con
gress with the split in the Republican
party wider than ever. with the situa-
ton over the tariff as aggravated as
ever and with little to console him po-
liticaliy except the fact that he man
aged to hold together a snmciont num-
Der of loyal Republicans in tho senate
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