Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1919-03-28
.65TH CONGESS
IN RETROSPECT
Unprecedented Smashing OF
the Traditions
ENORMOUS TREASURE SPENT
Practically A Fourth OF All The Laws
OF The Three Sessions Were
Approved During Last Nine
Days OF The Period.

Washington. The sixty-llth or War
Congress accomplishments are Official
ly reviewed in the final number OF the
Monthly Compendium OF the House Of
Representatives Unfinished business
OF the Congress. which necessarily
must be considered in the legislative
program OK the new Congress. soon to
convene. also Is contained in the pub
lieatiin which was edited BY W. Ray
Loomis. an olacial Of the House.
Constituting as it does a statistical
retrospection Of the accomplishments
Of the sixty-f,th Congress- says Mr..
Loomis in forewor1 Of the Compen-
dium. the final issue of the Monthly
Compendium throws the searchlight
on the transactions Of three sessions
OF unparalleled events. When the
Congress met In April, 1917, the coun-
try was at peace. In the interim war
had been declared, a war had been
won and war had been ended SO
this issue carries legislative history
Of character that perhaps never
again will be duplicated, both as to
the amount OF money authorized to be
expended and as to the extent OF the
reyolutionizing OF the social and busi
ness lives Of the people of the nation
The Sixty-nfth Congress is shown to
have appropriated approximately $751;
000,eoO,000; passed s4s public laws; IS
public resolutions; 4s private laws,
and conducted 80 congressional inves-
legations. A total Of 1854 bills and
resolutions were introduced, Of which
1864 originated in the House and the
remainder in the Senate. President
Wilson vetoed Eve measures.
President Wilson's part in congress
sional matters is set out. by list of
notable dates, including his approval
Of history-making laws and his ua-
merous addresses. It is shown that
for the FIRST time laws were signed
in a foreign country; that for the first
time a measure, a revenue bill, was
signed on a railroad train; that for
the first time a president had ad-
dressed the Senate in favor OF women
suffrage, had signed a bill to move
the sun forward and then backward"
and had gone on the fioor Of the
House to shake hands with members
of foreign war missions.
Another Unprecedented feature of
the Congress pointed ont by the Com
pendulum was that practically one
fourth of all the laws Of the three
sessions were approved during the
last nine days Of the Congress. The
President signed 116 bills and resolu-
tons from February "a to March 4.
Fifteen representatives. 10 senators
and 20 ex-members died during the
Congress. Two former presiding Off
GERS. Of the Senate. Theodore Roose-
velt and Charles w. Fairbanks. also
are included in the death roll
A list Of authors Of bills receiving
action beyond mere introduction
shows a predomination Of names Of
chairmen Of committees. Senator
Chamberlain. OF Oregon. chairman OF
the Military Committee, with 5s
measures. led the list. with Senator
Myers. Of Montana. chairman OF the
Public Lands Committee. second, with
S5 bills. Representative Padgett. of
Tennessee. heading the Naval Com
mittee. led in the House, with IS
measures, and Representative Dent.
OF Alabama, chairman of the Military
Committee, was second, with 35 bills.