Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-03
Congress Holds
 Sunday Session
A RUSH OF BUSINESS AT THE
 ELEVENTH HOUR.
HOUSES IN DEADLOCK
Failure to Reach Agreement on Bat
 tIeship Prosramme-Entire Naval Appropriation Bill May Be Defeated.

Washington, March 2.-With both the senate and the house in the un- usual situation of sitting in legislative session on Sunday, the Sixty second weary way through a maze. of tangled business towards it's conclusion that will come at noon Tuesday.
 Thousands of visitors in Washing ton for the inauguration took adV2n- tage of the Sunday night session to see the lawmakers at work. Thousands of spectators crowded the galleries of the house, where meagre attendance on the floor ground out the routine and rushed through minor bills with little consideration. Other thousands filled the senate galleries until an executive session drove them from the chamber and sent them wandering through tn } brilliantly lighted corridors of the cap itol.
 Two sattieships May Be Defeated.
 At a late hour tonight the corridors were thick with visitors anxious to force their way into the house gall leries, already oVercrowded. The end of the session rush of business had brought many who were interested 1p various bills which they hoped might be slipped through in the rather dis orderly 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 gal Ieries.
 TIs two battIeship programme was threatened with defeat late tonight when the house and senate conferees decided they could make no agreement between the one battlesfip programme of the house and the two battleship programme of the senate.
 Will Defeat Entire Naval Bill.
 All other debated points in the naval bill were adjusted, but the conferees decided it was useless to attempt to adjust the battleship tangle, and the conference committee adjourned at Il o'clock without any plan for another meeting.
 The result threatens the defeat of the entire $156,oo0,000 naval appropria- ton bIli The house conferees de- ciined to yield the one battleship pro gramne and also refused to take tho issue back to the house for another, vote.
 A dozen conference cornnitte es worked throughout tonightss session, struggling to reach agreements satfs- measures.
 Days Proceedings in Brief.
 The proceedings in brief:
 Senate-Passed bill to make Senator Cul1om of Illinois a resident commits sioner for the construction Of the Lin coin memorial in Washington.
 Passed Burton bill to regulate ser vice of American seamen.
 Went into executive session to con sider army and navy appointments
 House-Passed Norris bill providi ag for publicity of testimony before mas ters in equity in antitrust cases.
 Adopted resolution extending for one year Burton act regulating develop ment of power at Niagara Falls.
 Adopted conference report on rivers and harbors bill carrying s47,S68,S ,S94
 Sent general deficiency bill to fur ther conference.
 Sent public buildings bill to further conference.
 Free Seeds May Be Saved.
 Congressional free seeds were put back into the agricultural appropria- tion bill late tonight by the confer ence committee of the house and gen. ate which reported for the apprcpria- tion for their annual distribution. The Mclean bill protecting migratory birds attached to the bill in the senate, also was retained.