Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-10-30
LONG SESSION OF
CONGRESS ENDED
eoUTHERN MEMBERS ABANDON
FiLlsuSTER WHEN PROMISED
ACTION AT NEXT SESSION..
Congress Had Been In Session for 3o4
Gays and Except for Months Re
cess, Had Been In Session Prac-
tleaily TWO Years.

Washington.-Afte nearly nineteen
months Of contiL dous session. the
longest ever known, the Sixty-third
congress adjourned it's second session
on Saturday, October "A, after the col
lapse Of prolonged efforts to procure
cotton growers relief legislation.
Leaders in this movement agreed te
adjourn. however. only on the condi
fion that pending cotton relief meas
sires would have the right of way when
congress reconvenes December Z.
Not more than fifty members of the
house and less than a 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 J.,
1913. When it adjourned 1t had been
in session 3O4 days, exclusive of the
recess from December 20, 1913, to Jan.
nary IL, 1914. Except for a month
of in 1913, congress has been in al.
most continuous session since Decem
Der 2, 1912, practically two years.
The first session of this congress
tasted from April 7, 1918, to December
/, 1913, a total of 239 days. Adding
this to 3O4 days of the second session
gives the Sixty-third congress total
Of 543 days.
The following are the statistics Of
the bills ordered in this session: Sen
ate resolutions, 472; senate bills, 6,641;
senate joint resolution, 1876; senate
concurrent resolutions, SO; house Joint
resolutions, 372; house concurrent res.
olutions, so; house resolutions, SAB;
house bills, 1887
The senate received about 5000 nom
nations. Twenty-four peace treaties
were ratified. The total amount OF
money appropriated was $1,115,s0S,-
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-
fton and operation by the government
OF 1000 miles Of railroad, and the war
tax bill, intended to provide $107 ,000,-
900 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 s20,000,000 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 its water supply
from the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yo-
semitic national park.
Law limiting the labor of women in
the District of Columbiasto eight hours
D 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.