The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-24
CONGRESS IS READY
 TO ADJOURN AT
 LATE HOUR TODAY
Exhausting Session Draws to Close -Filibuster Fails to Materialize.

TO ClOS0-E1uD DuST6r Edl1S
 to Materialize.
 By the time Congress next meets it may be that many members will have lost their seats. Many return to their district with the knowledge that they must fight hard to retain their places and many others with the knowledge that they are doomed to almost certain defeat. Among the old time regulars who must fight hard in November are "Uncle Joe" Cannon, Minority Leader Mann, Sereno E.. Payne, Representative Fordney of Michigan and E. J. Hill of Connec- ticut.
 Nearly a dozen Senators face the ends of their terms. Tired, and with the. prospect of only a few days rest before he plunges into the campaign fight, Speaker Champ Clark kept his good hurnor. He was con1plimented by his colleagues on the work of the session On the Senate side Vice President Sherman missed getaway day. for the first time since he be- came presiding officer of the upper house. Tn his chair sat Senator Gal finger, of New Hampshire, president pro- tenn. In the House there was the usual hustle of excitement and jovial leave takings in celebration of the close of an irksone session of work. The Senate always kept it's dignity.
 Washington, D. C.. Aug A-Con- gressmen were gleeful this afternoon it became evident that the adjourn ment of the 62nd session would be taken today. It is the longest na- tional legislative term in a genera .tion and the legislators found the long period very exhausting. President Taft was ready to leave for his sum- mer home in Beverly, Mass. and most of the Congressman rushed to their home districts to get things in shape for the November elections.
 Washington, Aug. 24-When the House met at II o'clock, today. only the threat of Representative Victor Murdock, of Kansas, to conduct a fi1ibuster against the conference re- port on the postofffce appropriation bill stood in the way of adjournment, late this afternoon. It was confident Ily predicted that Murdock would re- cede from the point or no quorum which he made, last evening, in an effortsto defeat a section in the re- port giving the St. Louis Terminal Company $50, coo for transportation of
 
 Mississippi river at St. Louis. 4 When
 Murdock registered his objection there
 were only 162 members of the House in the city, 34 less than the number sufficient for a quorum and it was
 known, today that a number of oth- CTS left the city, last night. Some of
 them hastened back today, following peremptory orders from Majority Leader Underwood But it was ap- parent that quoroum could not be mustered and that if Murdock chose
 to insist on his point he could pre-
 vent adjournment. s
 Only the conference reports on the
 postoffice and general deficiency bills remain to be acted upon by the House There were several minor measures which leaders expected to push through
 but the supply bills were given right of way.
 So determined was Majority Leader Underwood today that the session shall come to an end. this afternoon that he notified Senators that if they did not hurry up an agreement on the general deficiency bill he was willing to let adjournment come without ac- tion on it. The government could op- crate without the money provided fOl in this bill and it could be acted upor when Congress req ssembled, early in December.
 Immediately after converting, at Il o'clock, today, the House agreed to the conference report upon the postoffice appropriation bill The threatened fili-
 buster of Representative Murdock o1 Kansas, did not materialize. Murdocl only voiced his protest against the appropriation for the mail transfer across the bridge at St. Louis by vot- ference report.
 The House hastened adjournment by appointing Chairman Fitzgerald, Rep
 resentative Cannon, of Illinois and
 Representative Sisson,s of Mississippi conferees on the general deficiency bill the last appropria tion bill to. be considered before adjournment.
 The postoffice supply bill was sent to the President.
 Until 2 o'clock today, the House de voted itself exclusively to cons1dera- tion of private bills, urged by various
 members. To save these "pet' meas ures of individual representatives
 from being lost by adjournment was the object.
 The Senate waited for the House, today-about the first time this ses- ahead of the lower body. Practically
 the Gnly routine legislation remain ing unacted upon when the Senate met was the conference report on the
 general deficiency bill. Senate lead-
 CTS were so confident that adjourn uicHl WOulO nOt De Q6ldy0u IIdI they planned to devote most of the after
 noon to consideration of the bills on the general. calendar.
 This afternoon consideration of the measures on the regular calendar was begun in the Senate. A long debate was precipitated by consideration of l a House bill providing that no court should set aside the order of another tribunal or grant a new trial on ac- count of an error which did not in- jurioEsly affect the substantial rights of the complaining party Senator Root, of New York, championed the measure but Senator Hepburn, of 1 Idaho, bitterly opposed it's passage Senator Root urged that the meas
 ure only applied to civil cases The bill was finally laid aside with l out action
 Then Senator Poindexter called UT l the Perrose- Roosevelt controversy and | lengthy debate ensued It was plafr | that the Senate was merely killins l time, waiting for completion of con ference reports and the final hour o1 adjournment
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