The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-03-12
SIxTY-THIRD CONGRESS
MISUNDERSTANDING SESSION DIES
WITHOUT STRUGGLE.
P~ostofflee, Indian, and Shipping Bills
Expire With lt.-Presldent VII.
son Signs Seamen's Measure.

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spects-expired by limitation at noon
March 4th.
with an unusual record OF legisla-
tion accomplished. bang1 OF gcvels In
the Senate and the House sounded
"Taps" on the session launched "a
month after President Wilson's inaug'
uration two years ago.
swan songs" were sung by retiring
House members. Resolutions Of fclici-
ty were given Speaker Clark and the
party leaders. A costly oil painting Of
himself was the members gift to the
retiring Democratic leader, Represen-
;ative Underwood.
After an all-night vigil Congress
showed an unexpected burst OF speed
and practically finished It's legislative
work nearly two hourg before the time
OF adjournment.
Two OF the principal appropriation
bills, the postal bill and the Indian
bill, failed at the last moment, and
joint resolutions were passed extend.
ing the current appropriations for the
Postoffice Department and the Indian
Bureau over the next fiscal year
The clause In the p%o5toffice appro'
priation bill providing shat assistant
postmasters be abolished, was climi.
mated by the conference report.
The House finally passed and sent
to the President the resolution passed
by the Senate, giving the President
power to enforce this nations neu-
trality.
The ship purchase bill is dead.
Administration senators, threatened
with continuation OF tho Republican
nlibuster, did not plan another attempt
to revive il. The bill dies in confer
ence.
Rural credits legislation also Is dead.
Instead, a congressional COMMUNION Is
authorized to investigate the whole
subject and report to the next Con
gress by Jan. /, 1916.
The House passed the bill providing
aid to Alaskan agricultural colleges;
approved dropping the impeachment
charges against former judge Daniel
Thew Wright, and, as n tribute to the
veteran representative, Bartlett OF
Georgia, who r%etiros. passed a bill np-
propriating $4,000 for a federal build
ing at Forsyth, Georgia.
Cleaned States.
The House, cleaning its slate before
ten o'clock, settled down to wait for
noon. Democratic Leader Underwood,
making his last speech on the floor
Tor he goes to the Senate in the Sixty.
fourth Congress-dcclared the House
had done it's work and il would not be
the fault OF that body If the govern
ment's finances were not cared for.
Use Senate, after concurring with
the House extension Of the postal and
Indian appropriations, went into OK
ccutive session TO work on nomina.
lions.
President Wilson went to the cap
Itol at 10 o'clock and promptly began
signing the accumulation Of bills and
resolutions.
The President signed the La Fol
lette seamen's bin improving the
A. working conditions Of American sea
men and increasing ifesaying equip
ment requirements.
Records Smashed.
In time consumed the Congress
which ended on the 18th smashed rec
3 ords. 1t had been In session G3I days
The special session called IN April
l. 1913, leaped into the December SEES
sion that year, which continued unit
{ last October, adiourniug only tiv'
weeks before the present session be
o gan last December.
The principal accomplishments o
= the SiNty-third Congress were the FOL
lowing laws:
. New tariff and income tax, new cur
rency system, creating a Fedora
|, Trade Commission, amending the ant
/, trust act, repeal OF the anama ca
: nal free tolls provision, authors
Ing a government railro,d in Alaska
empowering use OF armed forces /
Mexico. the war tax creating a wa
6 risk insurance bureau and ratification
OF twenty-one peace treaties.
with the cho OF the adiournmeu
gavel many big figures in public III
%retlreu. Nine senators and almost Is
representatives left Congress.
The Senate had SO Democratic,
Republican ana 1 Progressive men
b. Der. The Sixty.fourth Congress wi
ID see Sc Democratic, l Progressive an
n 80 Republican senators seated.
The House had 2SG Democrats, II
republlcans. II Progressives and l Il
dependent. The next House Will hay
Il g3i Democrats, 1874 Republicans, Z Pr
gressives, l Socialist and 1 Ind
pendent.
"a The total appropriations OF the Sc
m sion were approximately Sl,l2O'4S'
324, several millions under the recoI
Il. OF previous Congresses.
,f Wilson Praises Work.
After his return to the White Houi
President Wilson dictated the fSllo'
ing statement about Congress and !
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