Arizona republican., 1913-11-30
Actual Finish of Extraor- dinary Sitting of Con- gress Will Not Come Until Monday With Cur rency Fight Still On
SENATE TO HOLD
 MORNING MEETING
Currency Will Be First and Most Important Matter Under Consideration and Further Day and Night Sessions Are Predicted
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPArcHl

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-The long est continuous extra ordinary session in 1 the history of congress is at an end, and the regular session will begin next Monday. Democratic leaders, acting in concert with President Wilson, did not permit the actual finish to be written to the special session.
 The senate viii meet again on Mon day at 10 o'clock and adjournment will not come until few minutes be- fore the regular session begins.
 Two great projects have held the attention of congress and the country throughout the work of the year. One of these, tariff revision, was crystal ized into law in September. The other, currency reform, is still the chief subject of legislative considera- tion.
 The special session began with the reorganization of the party leadership in the senate which brought the so- called progressive forces into control. Throughout the contests on the cur rency and tariff, the session has been marked by the qualification of the democratic ranks. Demands of the democratic leaders that the currency bill be passed at once brings the ex- tra session to a stirring close, a day and night session of the democratic currency conference having marked the last week. And day and night sessions of the senate are promised for the new session until the currency legislation is concluded
 Subjected to an all day wrangle in conference of the democratic sena- tors today the administration cur I-s preparation for final consideration on the floor of the senate. Practi- cally no change was made in the ad- ministration draft of the bill as pre- scented by Senator Owen, and five administration senators on the bank ing and currency committee during the day, but for several hours the conference discussed the technical interpretation of the portion bill re- lating to the retiring of the new currency to be issued.
 The administration plan for re- gional banks capitalized by enforced subscriptions of banks and controlled by banks and selected directors was endorsed It provided, however, the federal reserve board should have the power to remove all directors of the regional banks. The conference passed over the provision of the bill fixing the number of regional banks At the instance of the conference, democrats of the currency committee are framing a guarantee of bank de- posits provision which may be writ ten into the bill
 It was on April that the special session convened, pursuant to the call of President Wilson, to revise the tariff and to pass new banking and currency law. When adjournment is reached Monday, the session will have continued at work exactly 238 days a record for length never before made since the establishment of the na- tional government.
 The longest previous extra session was held in the sixty-first congress for the enactment of the Payne tariff law. That session began on March 15 and ended on August ,, 1909, mak- ing a total of IA days. When the special session of the fifty fifth con gress was called together by Presi- dent Mckinley it took 131 days to place the Dingley tariff law on the statute books, being in session from March IS, 1897, until July 24 of the same year. The special session of the fifty eighth congress was called to- gether November 9, 1903, and remain ed at work until the regular session of that year. which met on December 7, consuming but twenty nine days in all. On August '. 1893, the special session of the fifty-thir congress was called to meet and remained at work until November 3 of the same year, being at work but eighty nine days.
 In reconstruction days, immediately following the civil war, there was an extra session which convened on March 4, 1867, and ran into the reg ular session. which began the follow ing December 2. This was span of PA days, and would have consti- tuted an unbeaten record except that there were recesses from March 30 to July l, and from July 20 to No vember 21.