Arizona republican., 1913-03-04
Many Important Positions
 Are Left for Wilson's Filling Including Several Judgeships and Other High Offices -,s
CONGRESS- BEGINS
 TO PACK UP
Incidentally President Taft Puts in Busy Last Day Signing Letters Greeting Friends and Receiving William J. Bryan
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPArcHJ

ASSOCIATED PRESS DlSPATCHJ
 WASHINGTON, March 3.-The senate late tonight ended the strug
 gles over the Taft appointments by confirming the promotions of Colonels Carrol A Devol. James Parker and
 Hunter Liggett to be brigadier gen erals. These combinations came at the end of the long fight led by Sem ator Johnston of Alabama who ob- l iected to Colonel Devors promotion. ! With the vote upon army appoint ments the senate ended its execu- tive sessions and will take ho further action on any of the Taft appoint
 ments To Wilson will fall the task of filling over fourteen hundred places made vacant by the refusal of the senate to confirm the appoint ments by Taft since December 2. ! The places which become vacant with the adjournment of congress to- morrow noon include practically all ! the appointments outside of the diplo- i matic service, the army, navy and marine corps and the allied services. | Many important positions are involv-
 ed in the list, including those of Ed gar E. Clark, Interstate Commerce | commissioner, and Dr. C. P Neili.
 Commissioner of labor The list of | federal judges who failed of confir- nation included: Richard E. Sloan of Arizona, John Nj. Cheney of Flor ida; Peter J. Hamilton of Alabama.
 for Porto Rico: Clinton w. Howard of Washington. Charles s. Cutting
 of Illinois and Charles c. Mumford of
 Rhode Island.
 Overshadowed by the enthusiasm
 attending the arrival of the demo-
 cratic president elect and holding of
 the suffrage carnival, the sixty sec
 ond congress began today to say
 fareWells and prepare for the ter
 imitation of business at noon tomor- { row By fiction of long standing, the 1 Legislative day. of March 3, will
 run through tonight and terminate
 shortly before noon tomorrow with the impressive ceremonies attending
 the inauguration of Vice President ! Marshall
 The retiring members, some of
 whom have been in congress for
 score or more of years, bade good
 bye to their colleagues tonight and
 cleaned out the desks for their exo-
 dus from the capital Scores of new
 senators and representatives who will
 come into office tomorrow mingled
 throughout the day with their future
 associates of the two houses and took
 mental stock of their environment and their friends in the new demo- cratic congress.
 Former Speaker Cannon, Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom, veterans of many
 congresses, Representatives Nicholas
 Longworth. John Dalzell, John Lamb and Samuel w. Mccall. and Senators
 Crane, Dixon, Bourne and others who have been prominently identified with : the legislation of recent years. were : recipients of farewell greetings from 9 their associates.
 r President Tafts last day in the l White House was one of his busiest. [ As a working day it did not last more 9 than ten hours, but was crowded with 3 unusual events and crowned with | pleasantries. The president shook s hands with several hundred citizens Q and officials of the government; re- I ceiVed scores of telegramS from friends all over the world; signed l his name to pile after pile of pie t lures and letters and held three re-
 captions. He quilted the room he e had occupied for four years in the . executive office with a smile and e without a backward glance. He met old time friends of the Washington diplomatic corps and the justice of e the supreme court at the White = House last of all and gave first for g mai welcome to that mansion to the D President elect and Mrs. Wilson. Tonight President and Mrs. Taft . were guests at private dinner given = by Miss Mabel Boardman and alto- n gether as Taft told his visitors to- o day, it was one of the happiest days of his life, the regret that he may g have had things he was un- d offset by the remembrance of the = pleasant paths he had walked. r William Jennings Bryan was one '- of the last distinguished visitors win 'f saw the president in his office. Cc
 Bryan came unannounced late th{s It afternoon. < r. Here's something I want to show
 you." said the president as he gras 1T ed his visitor by the arm and IS him to the cabinet room. ''Thir IS continued the president, "is o cabinet room @= e. Bryan sat down in the chair of thu d secretary of state, made no comment IT T just dropped in to say farewell{ o he told the newspaper men as he dc
 IIarted.