Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-31
LONG SESSION Of
CONGRESS ENDED
SOUTHERN MEMBERS ABANDON
FlLleUSTER WHEN PROMISED
ACTION AT NEXT SESSION.
Congress Had Been In Session for so@
Days and Except for a Months Re-
cess, Had Been In Session Prao-
tlcaly Two Years.

Washington.-After nearly ninetees
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 ia
adjourn. however, only on the condi
ion that pending cotton relief meas
nres would have the right of way when
congress reconvenes December 7.
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 !,
1918. When 1t adjourned 1t had been
In session 304 days, exclusive OF the
ecess from December %, 1913, to Jan
airy H. 1914. Except for month
,ff 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 7, 1913 to December
|, 1918, total of 239 days. Adding
this to 304 days of the second session
gives the Sixty-third congress a total
Of 543 days.
The following are the statistics OF
he bills ordered In this session: Sen
,te resolutions, 472; senate bills. 6,641;
enate joint resolution, 1866 senate
concurrent resolutions, 80; house joint
esolutions, 372; house concurrent res
buttons, so; house resolutions, 64s;
house bills, 1887.
The senate received about 5000 nom
nations Twenty-four peace treaties
we're ratified. The total amount OF
money appropriated was $1,l15,9oS'
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
layton antitrust act, the Alaskan
abroad act providing for the construc.
ion and operation by the government
II 1000 miles of railroad, and the wal
tax bill, intended to provide $lO7 900,
300 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 $20,OO0,000 Tor
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
semitic 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 reorganizing diplomatic and
consular service of the United States.
The Jones Philippine bill, which de.
clares the purpose OF the United States
to recognize the independence of the
Philippines at some future date, was
nassed nv tha housp