The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-03
CONGRESS WORKSON
SUNDAY IN ATTEMPT
TO DISPOSE Of BILLS
Burton Seamen's Servitude
Bill Passed by the
Senate
RIVERS AND HARBORS
BILL GOES TO TAFT
The President Signs Army Bill-Other
Appropriation Measures Are Still
in Danger--Norris Publicity
Bill Passed By House
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
senate; Convened at 2 p. m.

The DAY IN CONGRESS-
senate; Convened at p. m
fassed seamen's servitude bill.
Passed bill to make Senator Cul-
lom of Illinois resident commissioner
Tor the construction of the Lincoln
memorial in Washington.
rassed Burton bill to regulate service
of American seamen.
Went INTO executive session to con-
slider army and navy appointments.
Adjourned at 1913 a. m. until
9.45 a. m. today.
House: Convened at 2 n. m.
Adopted conference report on rivers
and harbors bill, carrying 7.s6s. .s94.
Sent general deficiency bill to further
conference.
Sent public buildings bin to further
conference.
Recessed at 6:25 p. m. to s:45 .. m.
Passed Norris bill providing for pub
hcity OF testimony before masters in
equity In antitrust cases
Adopted resolution extending for one
year Burton act regulating deye]op-
ment of power at Niagara Falls.
Recessed at 11:40 p. m. until $50 a.
m. Monday.
Washington, March with both the
Senate and the House in the unusual
situation OF sitting in legislative ses-
sion on Sunday the Sixty-second Con-
gress today and tonight dragged its
weary way through a maze of tangled
business toward its conclusion that
Will come at noon Tuesday.
Thousands of visitors in Washing
ton for the Inauguration took advan-
tage of the Sunday night session to
see the lawmakers at work. Thou-
sands of spectators crowded the gal
leries of the House, where a meagre
attendance on the floor ground out the
routine and rushed through minor bills
with little consideration Other thou
Sands filled the Senate galleries until
an executive session drove them from
the chamber and sent them wandering
through the brilliantly lighted corri-
dors OF the capitol. At late hour to-
night the corridors were thick with
visitors, anxious to force their way
into the House galleries, already over
crowded.
The end of the session rush of busi
ness had brought many who were in
terested in various bills which they
hoped might be slipped through in the
rather disorderly procedure in The
House. where Speaker Champ Clark
shattered the sounding board OF his
desk with his gavel in his efforts to
control the noisy attendance on the
floor and the galleries.
The two battleship programme was
threatened with defeat late tonight.
when the House and Senate conferees
decided they could make no agreement
between the one battleship programme
Of the House and the two battleshin
programme Of the Senate. All other
debated points in the naval bills were
adjusted. but the conferees decided II
was useless to attempt to adjust the
battleship tangle and the conference
committee adjourned at IL o'clock with
out any plan for another meeting. The
result threatens the defeat of the en-
TIRE $l6o,oO0.000 naval appropriation
Dill The House conferees declined to
yield the one battleship programme and
also refused to take the issue back to
the House for another vote.
A dozen conference committees
worked throughout tonight's session
struggling to reach agreements salts
factory to both Houses on yarious
measures. Several potential fiiibusters
We're apparent In both Houses with
opponents of proposed bills ready To
tight against all legislation if attempts
were made to pass the measure thew
opposed 0'
The various disagreements in the
conference committees showed no signs
of settlement and just before midnight
the House leaders decided that thev
would wait no longer for the confer
ence reports on the various appnonria-
ton bills in dispute. The Senate was
IN executive session and the House
recessed until $50 tomorrow morning
TO allow time for the Strengthening out
OF the conference reports.
Both houses of Congress. after sittinr
well into the early hours of Sunday morn
Ing met again this afternoon to resume
tho enort to finish pending legislation he
fore adjournment Tuesday noon. Agree
ment IN the Senate early this morning on
the rivers and harbors blk and the post
onice appropriation bill, had cleared the
situation so that spirit of optimism per-
vaded both chambers when the sessions
We're resumed shortly after D. m,
bitter fight in the conference commit
tee having the public buildings bill IN
charge, left the fate Of the measure m
doubt up to late hour tonight. II Ia
thought that all appropriation bills. with
the possible exception of the District OF
Columbia measure, would be finally agreed
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