Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-09-15
CONGRESS CLOSES
REGULAR SESSION
AFTER NINE MONTHS OF WORK
MEMBERS GIVEN VACATION
UNTIL DECEMBER.
Many important Measures Adopted at
Closing Session, Including Emer.
gency Revenue Bill and the Cor.
rupt Practices Bill.

Washington. --- Congress adjourned
September s. aftCr nine months de-
voted to legislation. Both houses
held protracted sessions Thursday
night to end their affairs by APPROX
ing the conference agreement on the
emergency revenue bill to raise ap.
proximately $2O0,OOOOO0, desired by
the administration to meet the extra
ordinary appropriations for national
defense and the Mexican emergency
Only the physical impossibilty Of
engrossing the revenue measure in
time for the presidents approval be-
fore Friday morning prevented final
adjournment Thursday night, despite
the waning protests of members of
both houses who threatened. but did
not execute the threats to prolong the
session by demanding action on other
measures which were forced over un.
I'll December.
The last appropriation measure, the
general deficiency bill, was adopted
by both houses while waiting for the
conference report on the revenue bill.
and the Danish treaty to provide for
purchase of the Danish West Indies
for $25,000000 was ratified. The cor.
rupt practices bill to limit campaign
expenditures and the immigration bill
which President Wilson had announc-
ed he would veto II passed, were put
aside and will be taken up in the De
cember session.
The revenue bill, as IT went to the
president, contains drastic provisions
empowering the president to retaliate
against foreign interference with
American commerce, creates non
partisan tariff commission, increases
the duties on dyestuffs to encourage
their manufacture in the United
States, provides means to prevent
dumping of cheap foreign.made goods
into American markets after the war,
and provides for income, inheritance,
munitions. corporation stock, liquor.
and miscellaneous internal revenue
taxes.
Democratic leaders are claiming
that the first session of the sixty
fourth congress has established a rec
ord for industry. Approximately 500
bills have been enacted into law. II
is conceded generally that the nation.
al defense measures, providing $685.
466,512 to strengthen the army and the
navy, are the most vital of all passed.
The regular army is virtually dou-
bled in size, a new army reserve is
established and the militia OF the
states is federalized. Provisions for
increasing the navy call for twenty
one new warships, including ten first
class battleships, eleven battle cruis-
ers and ten scout cruisers, eight of
which are to be constructed immedl-
ately.
The number of cadets who may be
appointed to West Point and the mum
Der of midshipmen at Annapolis are
doubled.
Other achievements by this congress
are Invisible into two classes.
The social Justice and agricultural
benefit measures. Paramount among
the first of these is the Adamson
| eight-hour law, through which the
most calamitous railroad strike in his
| tory was prevented. Interest in this
and the fight over the child labor law
| during August oyershadowed all else
| during the closing weeks OF the SEES
| sion