The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-11-05
LONG SESSION OF
CONGRESS ENDED
SOUTHERN MEMBERS ABANDON
FILiaUSTER WHEN PROMISED
ACTION AT NEXT SESSION.
CONGRESS Had Been in Session for 3O4
DAYS and Except for Months Re-
cess, Had Been In Session Prae.
ticaIIy TWO Years.

Washington.-After nearly nineteea
months of continuous session, the
longest ever known, the Sixty-third
congress adjourned it's second session
On Saturday, October "a, after the COZ
lapse of prolonged efforts to procure
cotton growers relief legislation.
Leaders in this movement agreed to
adjourn. however, only on the eondi
ton that pending cotton relief meas.
ures would have the right of way when
congress reconvenes December 7,
Not more than fifty members of the
house and less thar 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 l.
1913. When it adjourned 1t had been
in session 304 days, exclusive OF the
recess from December %, 1913, to Jan
uary IL. 1914. Except for month
off in 1913, congress has been in al
most continuous session since Decem
Der 2, 1912, practically two years.
The first session of this congress,
lasted from April 7, 1918, to December
1, 1918, total of 239 days. Adding
this to SO4 days of the second session
gives the Sixty-third congress tota
of 543 days.
The following are the statistics d
the bills ordered in this session: Sen
ate resolutions, 472; senate bills, 6,64l;
senate joint resolution, 1876; senate
concurrent resolutions, 80; house john
resolutions, 372; house concurrent res
olutions, so; house resolutions, GAS;
house bills, 1887.
The senate received about 5000 nom
nations. Twenty-four peace treaties
were ratified. The total amount q
money appropriated was $1,115,9OSr
77726.
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 wal
tax bill, intended to provide 5000
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 $20,000,000 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 it's water supply
from the Hetch Hetchy valley in 70
semitic national park.
Law limiting the labor of women in
the District of Columbia to eight hours
a 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
| to recognize the independence of the
Philippines at some future date. was
passed by the house.