Evening star., 1916-09-08
President Goes to Capitol at
Closing Hour and
Signs Bills. "a
AMONG ACTS APPROVED
is REVENUE MEASURE
Senate Completes Work After Long
Night Session-Members Con-
gratulate Speaker.

The first session of the Sixty
fourth Congress came to an end
at 10 o'clock this morning, after
breaking many legislative records
and appropriating and authorizing
expenditures we'll on toward the
two-bi1lion mark.
In the closing moments the President
went to the Capitol. where he signed
several bills which passed late last
night or early today. Among them was
the revenue measure. completed last
night. He also signed the deficiency
appropriation bill. which contains items
of great interest to the District of Co.
| lumbia, and also the fake auction" bill
| He signed the revenue bill in the pres
ence Of Senator Simmons. chairman OF
| the Senate finance committee. and Rep
resentative Rainey of Illinois of the
House ways and means committee, who
| drafted the tariff board provisions of
| the act. The President held a reception
| In his room in the Senate wing of the
Capitol. He shook hands with many
members of each house, and congratu-
lated Senator Simmons on the passage
| of the revenue measure.
| Senate Has Long Session.
The Senate completed it's labors by a
| long night session and an early start
today, beginning at 8 o'clock. Before
| the Vice Presidents gavel tapped the
the resolution of Senator Curtis of
| Kansas. directing the famous Senate
lobby committee to investigate the
activities of the alleged foreign lobby
opposing a retaliatory provision, of the
| revenue measure against Canadian fish,
cries
! The Senate also passed the Heating
resolution directing federal investi
cation of the cost of living in the Dis
| trict of Columbia. The resolution,
amended slightly. was sent back to
| the House for a conference, but 10
o'clock. the adjourning hour, arrived
before 1t could be reached. Proponents
of the resolution said that 1t would be
/ effective early in the second session.
| The delay which had hovered like
| dark cloud because of Senator Owens
insistence in attempting to pass the
| corrupt practices" bill, vanished. Sem
ator Owen announced his intention to
| desist in his efforts to pass the bill.
and blamed the republican side for
dilatory tactics which made 1t neces-
sary to withdraw the bill from con-
sideration at present. He predicted an
early passage of the bill in the coming
| session.
| House Has Little to Do.
| In the House there was little to do.
while waiting for the adjourning hour
to arrive. The members gathered at
1 a ~ nd at tn
lations to the Speaker and to the ma
jority leader, Representative Kitchin.
from the lips of Representative Mann.
the minority leader. In turn Repre-
| sentative. Mann was doomed for the
| speakership in the next House by Rep
| resentative Moore of Pennsylvania
| Representative Harrison of Mississippi
| in political speech anwered some Of
J the charges of Representative Roden-
berry of Illinois in the matter of am
munition shipped to Mexico. Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald and Representa-
| tive Gillett, chairman and ranking mi
nority member. respectively, of the ap-
propriations committee analysed the
enormous appropriations of the year.
each one taking opposite views for
purely political reasons.
The Senate was dignified in closing
its deliberations, and the House sim
ple and extremely informal.
Last night both houses accepted the
conference report on the emergency
revenue bill without record votes. and
the Senate, before recessing. an hour
after midnight, ratified the Danish West
Indies purchase treaty. The general
deficiencies appropriation bill also was
approved as reported by conferees To-
days session was necessitated only by
need for time to reprint the measure In
the proper form to be signed. Conferees
reached an agreement on the hill early
in the evening after spending two days
on ii.
The report was attacked by Senators
Chamberlain and Jones. because the
amendment for retaliation against
Canadian control of Pacific coast fisher
les had been stricken out In the
House Representative Gardner de-
nounced the retaliatory provision
against foreign interference with
American commerce. -.-...-