New Britain herald., 1916-09-08

congress-" he cried. What is that when a distinguished gentleman rep
 isesenting the Canadian government
 Sir Joseph Pope, while he may not
 have besieged congress, has been be-
 segings officials of this government to
 discourage this measure?"
 Senator Curtis offered another reso- lution directing the senate Hobby committee" which has been in exist ence for several years and had never
 reported, to investigate the alleged
 foreign lobby. Senator Chamberlain urged it's adoption.
 The homestead grazing bill was
 passed without record vote It al- ready had passed the house. It pro-
 vIdes for stock raising hom esteads, raising the meximum area which may be entered for that purpose from 16O to GAO acres.
 President Signs Revenue Bill
 Soon after the president reached the capitol the revenue bill was ready for his signature. The senate adopted the concurrent resolution for a 10 o'clock adjournment, which already
 had been passed in the house. Presi- dent Wilson signed the emergency
 revenue bill at 9:25 o'clock
 The president held a reception in
 his room as a line of senators and representatives passed through while ho sat at the table signing bills. To senator Simmons the president eX- lressed qualification over the passage of the revenue bill and it's many legislative features He said, how ever, that he greatly regretted the failure of the Webb bill to provide for establishment of American collective selling agencies in foreign countries. As the president was about to sign the twenty dollar widow pension bill Representative Ashbrook of Ohio, it's A sponsor, asked to witness the sigma ture.
 At 9:3O o'clock the senate appointed Senators Kern and Shoot to notify the president that congress was ready to adjourn, unless he had some Il further communications to present They were joined by Representatives Kitchen, Fitzgerald and Mae1 the M house committee, and the joint com & mittee waited on the president at a 9:S5 a. m.
 a The president congratulated the $ leaders on the opportunity for well n earned rest
 & Officially he informed them that he "a had nothing further to communicate 8 to congress. When they left the Presi- @ dents room the chief executive was a Joined by Secretary Lansing, who "a chatted with him as he continued to # sign bills.
 @ Senator Kern notified the senate at "a 9:55 o'clock that the president had @ nothing further to communicate. W Thereupon Senator Nelson of Minne- M sota offered a resolution of thanks 2S to the vice president for his impartial
 conduct in presiding over the senate. 8 The resolution was adopted and the #N vhce president thanked the senate in M a brief address. Thereupon the sen M ate adjourned sine die at 9:59 o'clock. W MarshaIl's Golden Silence. Z Vice President Marshall, in his ad-
 dress to the senate said: ''When I as- E sumed the duties of this office I ## thought it would be a terrible thing Mto keep silent, but the longer I stay
 shefe the more I think it is wiser to #keep silent. We are about to leave & here, some of us to point with pride @and others to view with alarm,' but I l. hope when we all have come back we
 will have forgotten the animosities of the campaign and will remember that &@We are good friends.'
 M Ehe usual hubbub chara cterized the
 kcIOsing moments in the house, after
 StSep. Fitzgerald, chairman of the ap- s# pro priationS committee had made a &statement regarding appropriations.
 In discussing the expenditures MT. 7 Fitzgerald said the world was ablaze &and the American people had
 Wakened to the fact and ito the be-
 Biief that even the United States are not
 so completely isolated from the old
 world as to be free from all possi-
 plhty of entaglement before the con
 nIct stops" He said that, accordingly,
 steps had to be taken