The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-10-30
LONG SESSION OF
CONGRESS ENDED
SOUTHERN MEMBERS ABANDON
FILisUsTER WHEN PROMISED
ACTION AT NEXT SESSION.
Congress Had Been in Session for 3o4
Days and Except for Months Re-
cess, Had Been in Session Prac-
tlcalIy Two Years.

Washington.--After nearly nineteen
months of continuous session, the
longest ever known, the Sixty-third
congress adjourned its second session
on Saturday, October "a, after the col.
lapse of prolonged efforts to procure
cotton growers relief legislation.
Leaders in this movement agreed to
adjourn. however. only on the condi.
ton that pending cotton relief meas
ures would have the right of way when
congress reconvenes December z.
Not more than fifty members Of the
house and less than quorum OF the
senate were in attendance when the
gavels fell on adjournment without
day
The second session of the Sixty
third congress was one of the longest
sessions in the history of the United
States.
The session convened December 1
1913. When 1t adjourned it had beer
in session 304 days, exclusive of the
recess from December 20, 1913, to Jan
off in 1913, congress has been in al
most continuous session since Deem
Der 2, 1912, practically two years.
The first session of this congress,
lasted from April Z, 1918, to December
1. 1918. total of 239 days. Adding
this to 304 days of the second session
gives the Sixty-third congress tota
of SAB days.
The following are the statistics o.
the bills ordered in this session: Sen
ate resolutions, 472; senate bills, 6,641;
senate joint resolution, 1876; senate
concurrent resolutions. 80; house joint
resolutions, 372; house concurrent res
olutions, so; house resolutions, GAS;
house bills, 1897.
The senate received about 5000 nom
nations. Twenty-four peace treaties
were ratified. The total amount OF
money appropriated was $1,115,908,
777.26.
The most important of the laws en-.
acted at this session were the federal
reserve act, the repeal of the free tolls
provision of the Panama canal act the
Clayton antitrust act, the Alaskan
railroad act providing for the construc
ton and operation by the government
of 1000 miles of railroad, and the war
tax bill, intended to provide SLOT 0O0,.
600 to make up the loss in revenue
caused by the European war.
Among the other measures of i'm.
portance passed at this session were
the following:
Law regulating cotton future sales
on stock exchanges.
Appropriation of 100000 for
river and habor improvements, the
money to be spent at the discretion
of the government engineers.
Law giving the city of San Francis.
co the right to take its water supply
from the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yo-
vemite national park.
Law limiting the labor of women in
the District of Columbia to eight hours
day.
Agricultural extension act providing
for cooperation between department
Of agriculture and state agricultural
colleges
Act providing income tax of / per
cent of the gross annual income of rail-
road corporations in Alaska.
Act recognizing diplomatic and
consular service of the United States.
The Jones Philippine bill. which de-
clares the purpose of the United States
20 recognize the independence of the
Philippines at some future date, was
passed by the house.