Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-03
62O CONGRESS
ABOUT TO DIE

Washington, D. c., March 3.--With
less than "a hours to live, the sixty
second congress today found itself en-
tangled in a maze of conference re-
ports on many of the big supply bills,
which ordinarily must be finally dis
posed of before tomorrow noon.
The prospect is that both house and
senate will be in continual session
until the moment the inaugural cere-
monies begin. The battleship fight,
with the house holding out for one
ship and the senate insisting on two,
appears to be the key log in the jam.
Both sides are insistent.
Other measures in conference today
were not embarrassed by much seri-
GUS differences, and while the con
feres were negotiating, the senate
and house We're practically marking
time.
Another effort to reach compro-
mise on the battleship program re-
suited in failure and the house and
senate conferees broke up with a com.
tlete disagreement.
The agricultural approximation bill,
as agreed to in the conference COM
mittee was finally accepted by the
senate. 1t contained the congression-
al free seed appropriation which the
senate had cut out, but which the
house insisted upon retaining.
Senators Perkins, Penrose and Till.
nan and Representative Foss insisted
Oh adhering to the two battleship plan
cf the senate while Representatives
Padgett and Gregg would not yield
from the one ship decision of the
house.
Senator Warrens report to the SEN
2ie that it had been found impossible
TO agree with the house on the legis-
lative, executive and judicial appro-
p iation bills, and that reports of the
louse on conference preferred that
the bill should fail rather than to
weld further to the senate. The chief
difference between the two houses
exists over the resolution of the house
for abolishment of certain United
States assay offices in the west.
An agreement TO vote at p. m. up
on the appointment as brigadier gen
erals of Coloney Carroll A. Devol,
James Parker and Hunter Liggett
and the appointment of Major Beech
Ell B. Ray, as lieutenant colonel, was
reached in executive session of the
senate. The fight against the army OF.
flcers acted as blockade to all other
legislation until the senate decided to
lay it aside and let conference re-.
ports and other routine business come
in.
The postoffice appropriation bill
was finally disposed of when the
house adopted the senate amendment
for five per cent year increase in
the allowance to all railroads carry
ing the mails, because of the great
bulk of traffic added bv parcels post.
The bill now goes to the president.
The senate later adopted a partial
report on the sundry civil
bill. The house con-
ferees, however, would not agree to
the senate amendments for $1,500-
600 appropriation for the governments
in the San Francisco
exposition; for participation in the
National Conservation congress at
tt ,nessee, this autumn
or 10 the senate amendment for the
payment of $4,000 to the citizens of
Ell Paso, Texas, and Douglas, Arizona,
for injuries in the Mexican disturb
ances. The senate voted to insist on
adoption of these amendments and
they were sent back to further confer
ence.
The senate adopted conference res
ports in the District of Columbia ap-
bill and the military aca-
denny appropriation bills and they
" went back to the house.
The academy conference report was
later adopted in the house and the bill,
for the presidents sigma
lure.
The senate refused to accept the
conferees' agreement on the public
tnilding bill and sent the measure
Il fo, So