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Newspaper Page Text' VOL. X COMING CONGRESS IN ATLANTA IS STIRRING NffIONSINTEBEST Eyes of Whole Country Will Be on Atlanta When the Southern Commercial Con gress Convenes Arrangement* hare practically been completed for the Southern Commercial Congress, the most gigantic and potential undertaking of its kind in the history of the south, which will convene In At lanta March •. 9 and 10. All wires con necting with Atlanta are kept red hot with messages from the nation s fore most officials expressing the keenest in terest in the epoch-making congress and signifying determination to be present at as many a* possible of the impor tant sessione. On account of the homogenous ter ritory the many and varied intereat* rep resented will be. the most extensive and far-reaching that has ever before been assembled together. The meeting and intercourse of these interests in a great concentrated movement for the up building of the south represent* the weld ing and union of the resources of the greatest nation in the world. From all points of the compass the eyes of the people are now centered upon Atlanta. Every train moving in the di rectlon'of. the metropolis of the south i* bringing distinguished men of the nation to the great congress. Extensive preparations have been made and are still being made by the citi xrns of Atlanta. G. Grosvenor Dawes, managing director, and Edwin Quarles, secretary of the congress. The cham ber of commerce through its energetic secretary and president are taking active steps toward the entertainment of the lelegates. and Atlanta will throw wide its njspitable doors to its distinguished •isitors. -~ s PRESIDENT PARKER HERE. In the vanguard of arrivals Monday norning were President Parker, of the Southern Commercial Congress, who tame to Atlanta from New Orleans. He will be joined later by the other mem ber* of the executive committee, includ ing ex-Governor Francis, of St. Louis: Gen. Julian 8. Carr, of Durham. N. C., and Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Flor ida, at the Piedmont hotel. During the last two days of the congress thi* ex ecutive body will devote Its time and thought to the formulation of plans per petuating the work of the great organisa tion Another prominent arrival Monday was Nathan Bedford Forrest, grandson of the "Wizard of the Saddle,” who arrived in Atlanta at 11 o’clock a. m.. from Mem phis, Tenn. Nathan Bedford Forrest is the adjutant general and chief of staff of the United Son* of Confederate vete rana He comes to co-operate in the great movement and will deliver an address Tuesday evening at I o’clock to the John B. Gordon camp. J.uUed Sm-'« of Cob- . federate veteran.*, and other similar or- > ganixations of the state at Cable hall. , In his address General Forrest will urge the co-operation of the members of these honored organization* In the establish i ment and maintaining of the bond of un ion between the people of the north, south, east and west, in the work of the Southern Commercial Congress. Judge Judson C- Clemens, recently ap p ited chairman of the interstate com 8. merce commission is also in Atlanta. .When interviewed by Edwin Quarles, secretar of the congress, he expressed ‘hi* views in regard to the work of the congress. He emphasised the signifi cance of the great convention beginning Wednesday and demonstrated intense In terest in it* vast importance. He stated J that he had kept in close touch with •the work of the congress and believed it I to be the most momentous and impor ( -tant event in the history of the nation since the troubles of ’SI. Judge Clemens said that it was hard for the people of the south generally to appreciate a* yet the true meaning and significance of the effort* being put forth by the Southern Commercial con gress. but he expressed the opinion that the time chosen for the meeting in At lanta of the southern business forces was most opportune and a* a result of the communion between north and south at the psychological moment he predict ed wonderful and lasting achievements in the upbuilding of the entire nation. Managing Director Daw« received a telegram Moodya morning from Secretary James Wilson, of the department of ag riculture, stating definitely that he would be present at the opening of the congress. Word was also received from C. H. Markham, president of the Illinois Central, that ho would reach Atlanta on March 10, and would attend several ses sions of the congress. Th* following letter expressing keen regret that it would be impossible for him to be present at the congress was received from William G. McAdoo, for merly of Marietta, Ga-, but who has won name and fame in the east by the building of ths famous McAdoo tunnel connecting New York city with Jersey City. Hoboken and other point* across the Hudson river. MR. M" A DOO’S LETTER. Mr. McAdoo is prevented from attend ing the congress on account of an impor tant bustnes stranaaction which demands his attention and presence in Europe. His letter follows: NEW YORK. Feb. 28, IMI. Dear Mr/Dawe: I am unexpectedly sailing for Europe on the Ist of March, and for thtu reason am deprived of the pleasure ana opportunity of attending the forthcoming session *f the Southern Commercial congress, as I had fully ex pected to do. It is a great disappoint ment to me, and I beg you to accept my apologies' and to express to your asso ciate* the keen regret I feel because of my ’nabilitv to attend. I have not pre pared a speech for the occasion, other wise I would be glad to send yoli the manuscript as requested. • I desire to heartily congratulate you and your associates upon banging to gether so large a group of forceful and distinguished men in a congress inspired >y purposes so noble a* the moral and material advancement of the south. I am sure the congress will give a new impulse to southern progress, and that Us deliberations will result in stimulat ing livelier Interest tn that great section es the country which is surely destined to become the theater of enormous in dus trial and commercial development ■within the next generation. The south is rapidly regaining the po tential influence in the political affairs of the country which she exercised prior to the civil war. Southern ideals of the finer sort, those ideals which have al ways controlled its best men and its b*e; women, are needed in the solution the graver problems now confront ing Dep.’Pi'H*’*'-' institutions, and in the contest which democracy of tbo people is going to demonstrate its mastery. _> New Big Figure In U. S. Senate Senator Coe I. Crawford, of South Da kota. who talked eight hours and five minutes in filibuster against Lorimer. DEMOCRITS IN POWtfl “ DURING NEXT CONGRESS Many Prominent in Congress Life During Past Years Now in Private Life BY RALPH SMITH. . WASHINGTON. March «.-The death of i the 61st congress Saturday at noon mark ed the beginning of a new era In Amer ican politics. For 16 years the Republi can party has been in complete con-trol of the legislative machinery of both houses of congress. For 14 years it has had the presidency, and the executive has been in perfect harmony with the congress. The next two years of Presi dent Taft’s term, however, will find one branch of the government—the house of representatives—in opposition to the ad ministration, and a Republican senate not entirely in accord with the presi dent. Just as Grover Cleveland had a Republican house and a Democratic sen ate. Mr. Taft will have a Democratic house and a Republican senate. In political annals the 61st congress will live in memory chiefly because the I despotic powers of the speaker were curb ed by a demand from the people which I found voice in a coalition of Democrats I and progressive Republicans, popularly i called insurgents. This combination up jset Speaker Cannon’s splendid political 1 machine, which came to him as a legacy 1 from Reed, Crisp and Carlisle. The I friends of reform call the change a re turn of the government to the people, and the stand-pat Republicans call It po litical treason, admitting that It has rev olutionised national legislation. - THE REPUBLICAN TARIFF. The 61st congres will also be remem bered largely for the enactment of a tariff law that Is now condemned alike by Democrats and Republicans. Even a Republican president has found portions of the Payne bill indefensible. It was the popular revolt against this tariff act that resulted in the political upheaval of both the house and senate. In both houses of the tlst congress the master minds of the dominant party have been swept from power. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, who bosed the senate with an iron hand son many, many years, was forced to retire to private life, and quit of con fress several weeks before his term ac ually expired. His retirement was ne cessitated to save his little state to the Republican party. The same desperate expedient occasioned the retirement of Senator Hale, of Maine, but in this case the expedient failed—and Maine went Democratic for the first time in years. As the 61st congress developed the po litical condition which retired the veter ans who stood by the old time Republi can policy of protection, it also gave birth to a new set of leaders in our.na tional affairs— LaFollette. Cummins, Bristow, Borah. These men have at last come into their own. They will have to be reckoned with by the Republican par ty in the future, and their policies will have to become part and parcel of the Republican doctrine. Otherwise a new line up is inevitable. The doings of the dead congress have been of deep political moment. The sym pathies of the Individuals of both parties have become public property. DEMOCRATIC DIFFERENCES. The 61st congress has served also to develop Important differences in the Dem ocratic party, and especially is this true of the senate. While the Republican dissentions are far more pronounced, the Democrats have shown several diverging v.ews on the tariff. . There are many so-called "protective Democrats," men who entertain a high regard for a stiff "revenue duty.” Bailey, of Texas, typi fies this classification, in part, though he is vociferous in his arguments for a tar iff along genuine Democratic line*. It is these differences within the ranks of the two great parties that develops the questions: "What is a Democrat and what is a Republican?” The retir ing congress has left the question un decided in some respects, and no effort will here ’be made to answer either question. The national conventions of the paties in 1912 will have to settle the matter. President Taft undoubtedly finds the present situation vexatious. He had leaned toward both sides of the Re publican party in the past two years. He has denounced, mildly, the Payne law, and he has defended it He ha* blown hot and cold with alarming Ir regularity. His recent actions indicate that he is not very much enamored of the Payne law, and his Canadian re ciprocity agreement is far from pleas ing to the wing of the Republican party that denounces the Payne tariff. The Republicans are in a bad way. There is little time now for a recon ciliation. and the members of the rival factions are damning each other with pleasing regularity—to a Democrat. The Republicans who retire from office are cursing their successful foes—tha and the insurgents, in turn, are accusing the stand-pat Republicans of wrecking the party and bringing about Democratic victory through their obstinacy—their standpatism. It may require time to heal up the wounds in the Republican party, and meanwhile the Democrats will be weighed in the measure. The effect of Democratic legislation on the business , conditions, the-pocketbook and the ap petite of the wage-earner may settie the question quickly, and bring the Re publican party back to power. Then again it may perpetuate itself in con trol for a long period. TAFT WANTS HARMONY. President Taft is anxious for harmony In his party. The insurgents' wing EIi«ENTERS SIXTH WEEK OF WORK WITH BJGRECEPTION Train Leaves Savannah and Is Greeted by Tremendous Ovations of. Farmers at Statesbororo BY BOGEBS WINTERS. STATESBORO, Ga., March 6.—Big things had been expected of this place and of Bulloch county, but the recep tion they gave the train went far be yond all expectations. They had a brass band from Savannah specially for the occasion; they escorted the speakers from the train to the court house steps, where the crowd could get room; they adjourned the city schools and the schools within a radius of flue miles; they would have given the visitors an automobile ride over their fine roads if there had been time enough; and they turned out nearly five thousand people, an immense gathering which Included I practically the entire local population and a majority of the land-owning far mers of the whole county. The train arrived about 8 o'clock. The reception committee came aboard at once, and in a few minutes the speak ing was under way at the court house. The band played as the train came up, and led the way to the courthouse. Mayor J. A. McDougald headed the re ception committee and prepared the re ception at the court house. BY BOGEBS WINTER. SAVANNAH, Ga., March 6.—Sunday was a rest day, a pleasant day, and a thoroughly beneficial day for the party aboard the educational train at Savan nah. After a particularly arduous week’s work, all hands aboard were tired and they absorbed rest like a sponge takes up water. Piloted by officials of the Cen tral of Georgia railway, they saw a good part of the beautiful city and had some fine things to eat at Thunderbolt. Long confinement in narrow quarters had ren dered the live stock stiff and tired, and so it was for them a good day as well as for the men. Early Sunday morning they were taken out on a platform and walked up and down for two or three hours. Constant traveling at a fairly rapid schedule had shaken up the train considerably and it came in for no small share of the general benefit. Saturday will go on record as one Os the best days on the whole trip. Four towns, in three counties, and crowds aggregating more than 4,000. was task enough for the strongest workers. By the time breakfast had been swallowed at an early hour the engineer was slow ing down for Gordon, and from that mo ment till bedtime there wasn’t a let-up. FOUR LIVELY SESSIONS. Gordon, population upwards of 600, pret ty, prosperous and progressive, turned mrt one es the best all-round-*receptions met with. Surrounding tne town is a rich and fertile territory cultivated by farmers who proved their progressive ness by getting up at daylight in order to be in Gordon when the train arrived. Toomsboro, 15 miles further down the line, was in many respects exactly simi lar to the Gordon stop. A town of about the same sixe, tiie same general ground plan, with the same air of prosperity and progressiveness, and with a popula tion and a gathering of farmers brimful of exactly the same enthusiastic inter est. Then came Tennille, where the crowd was so big and so bent on learning that it overwhelmed the train; and after Ten-- nille, Wadley, whiqh wasn’t far behind in numbers, nor a whit in interest. Sandersville sent down a strong party in a special train to Tennille, and the northbound Augusta Southern waited an hodr and a half to accommodate folks up their way. Cheap rates prevailed on each of the several lines coming into Tennille. PARTY GUESTS OF CENTRAL. On Sunday the party were the. guests all day of the Central of Georgia rail- I road, and a mighty enjoyable time they j were . given. First they were taken to the Casino at Thunderbolt for a splendid i dinner, consisting mainly of various sea- 1 food dishes, for which the cases at Thun derbolt are deservedly famous. A pleas ant hour on the verandas after dinner, with a strong breeze straight from the ocean blowing in their faces, made the ' erstwhile worn-out workers feel as if I they had never been weary in their lives, i an<J put them in fine fettle for a cruise ; several miles out to sea from the Yacht I club. It was night when they finally ; got back to the city, after a long ride in | automobiles over the magnificent shell roads of Chatham county. The gentle men who conducted the party were J. M. Mallory, the Industrial agent of the Cen tral railroad; J. F. Jackson, the immi gration agent, and W. B. Clements, the city ticket agent at Savannah. As gen tlemen and as hosts there are no finer than these three, and the party of the agricultural train will always cherish a warm spot in their hearts for them. Monday morning the train leaves over the Dublin branch ok' the Central for Statesboro, Stillmore and Adrian. Large crowds are sure to be on hand at each , of these places, but the men on the i train are in keen trim again for arduous ' work also professes to want peace, but the olive branch they hold 'out is some what arbitrary. "Take our views and we will get together in a hurry,” they say—and there’s the rub. The stand patters of the Cannon type are not dis posed to accept the progressive ideas when congress meets again. The congress which ended to-day com mitted three political sins which the people will be reluctant to forgive. One was the vindication of William Lorimer, of Illinois. Lorimer has his seat, but the question may not be set tled. If new evidence can be found in Illinois the senate committee on privi leges and elections may review the Lor impr case in the next congress. The congress did not appease the people’s anger at the official conduct of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. President Taft’s defense of his cabinet minister has not come in for the Criti cism which the congressional commit tee’s whitewash gave him, and when the congress let the Ballinger report sleep to death without action it offended the sense of justice of the people. Again, the retiring senators, repudi ated by their cos Hied t Borah constitutional amendment for the direct election of senators. Able minds have argued on both sides of this ques tion. but it is self evident that a great majority of the country favors this re form which was effectively killed in the sixty-first congress. It will come before the sixty-second congress with greater strength behind it, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1911. i is u ft t-i ® ® is j g I yf i p .—' ~ ADJOURNMENT WITH A STRING TO IT BAILEY WITHDRAWS HIS RESIGNATION Texas Senator, Urged by the Governor of Texas, Stays in U. S. Senate / (By AMoeisted Fress.) WASHINGTON, March 4—Senator Joseph W. Bailey added to the excite ment and to the extraordinary episodes surrounding the adjournment of the 6lst congress today by resigning his office as senator from the state of Texas, and a few hours later withdrawing his resig nation. Angered by the attitude of his Demo cratic colleagues in favoring the resolu tion approving the new constitution of Arizona, to whose radical features Mr. Bailey has declared his undying opposi tion, he wrote his resignation and took it to the .vice president with the request that he announce it to the senate. Mr. Sherman .declined to have anything to do with it Senator Bacon, importuned in like manner to announce, took a similar position. Thereupon the Texan tele graphed it to Gov. O. B. Colquitt, of Texas, who promptly refused to accept it. replying as follows: "I decline to accept your resignation as a senator from Texas and respectfully ask you to withdraw it. Please wire fully.” Meanwhile, the resignation was a sub ject of excited discussion about the capi tol, many of Mr. Bailey's Democratic colleagues expressing surprise at ills ac tion, and those who talked with him urged him to reconsider his action. Not a few prophesied that he would think differently of his decision "after he cools off,” and would withdraw the resigna tion. z > WITHDRAWS RESIGNATION. He did withdraw it and this evening made public the telegram sent by him to Governor Colquitt: "You know how unalterably I am op posed to those populistic heresies, known as the initiative, referendum and recall, and I would not bo willing to remain in the senate or in any branch of the pub lic service if a majority of the party friends associated with me were willing to give their approval of them. "I construed the vote of the Demo cratic senators in the senate this morn ing on the resolution approving the con stitution of Arizona as giving their sup port tg these vagaries and unde* that impresiion I promptly tendered my res ignation. The ablest and most conspicu ous Democrats who voted that way have given me their assurance that they did not intend their votes to be so construed and have made, through Senator Bacon, a statement in the open senate declaring that they utterly disapprove them. "Under these circumstances and at their earnest request as well as your own request, supplemented by many messages from my friends in Texas and some from other states, I have concluded to with draw my resignation. I am willing to work to the limit of my strength as long as I can serve the public and at the same time obey what I understand to be the commandment of Democratic principles, but no office could tempt me for one mo ment to compromise with a policy which I am certain would in the end destroy the government established by our fa thers.” “ABLEST IN SENATE.” Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, be fore he heard that Mr. Bailey had with drawn his resignation, issued a state ment in fchich he expressed profound re gret at the Texan’s action, character izing it as "precipitate and unwise; the result of passion which he will regret as soon as he cools off.” He declared Mr. Bailey "the ablest man in the senate without exception, and one of the best equipped men tn public life.” And that he had known for years that there was a coterie in the senate envious of Mr. Bailey and plotting against his assum ing leadership. The senator had played into their hands by his action, Mr. Till man said. “I knew Bailey was mad,” said an other senator, "but I never thought he would use his rage as a hatchet to split open his own head.’’ Eleven of the Democratic senators sent to Governor Colquitt the following tele «ra«; - *- JUST WHAT CONGRESS DID ♦ *- DURING 61ST SESSION. ♦ *- WASHINGTON; March 4—Out of ♦ ♦- the grist of bills that Went to the *- mill of congress in the session that *- enfled today emerge these results ♦ of more or less imperative inter- ♦ est; ♦ ♦ POSITIVE RESULTS. ♦ Provision of 83,000,000 for the for- ♦ *- tifleation of the Panama canal. ♦ *- Provisions for two new battle- -♦ *- ships. * ♦ Recortja<rAlon- of tha-- Judicial ♦ ■*■ code, regarded as most important *■ for .the amelioration of the laws delays. ♦ -*■ Creation of forest reserves in the ♦ southern Appalachian and White -* mountains. ♦ Providing for the construction of ♦ embassy and legatjpn buildings ♦ abroad. *- Requiring* the inspection of lo- ♦ comotive boilers. ♦ -* NEGATIVE RESULTS. ♦ *- Failure of the Canadian reclp- -♦ roclty agreement in the senate and *- causing an extra session. ♦ ♦ Failure of the permanent tariff ♦ board bill which passed the senate but was kiled by a filibuster in the •> house today. y Failure of the resolution to ad mlt to statehood Arizona and New Mexico, which was killed by a fill- *- buster In the senate. ♦ ♦ Failure of the proposal to in- -* crease the rate of postage on the ♦ advertising sections of the large *- magazines; but provision for a -*• *- commission to investigate the sub- ♦ ♦ ject. ♦ Failure of the senate resolution providing for the direct election of ♦ United States senators. ♦ ♦ Failure of the general age pen- ♦ slon biW. ♦ Failure to act on Ballinger-Pin- ♦ chot Investigation reports. ♦ ♦ Failure to enact the ocean mail ♦ subsidy, passed by the senate ♦ alone. ♦ » * ♦■»♦* »»*-**>*** ♦»*****♦.*-*- DALTON POULTRY FAIR DOUBLES ITS PRIZES , —_ DALTON, Gg., March 6.—As an evi dence that they Intend to make —e 1911 poultry show here a great one, the Dal ton Paultry and Pet Stock association, at the meeting Saturday afternoon, de cided t<s just double the prizes ’offered last year. The meeting was attended uy a num ber of the stockholders was an extreme ly enthusiastic one. Officers for the year were elected as fellows: L. J. Allyn, president; J. L. Wallace, vice president; F. W. Weatherly, secre tary, and R. A. Shatzer, treasurer. The show this year will be held in November, beginning Monday, the 20th, and lasting through the week. The as sociation will go out after entries, and a big show is expected. ASK TAFT TO PARDON ALABAMA LUMBER MEN MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 4.—The Alabama legislature to-day adopted a resolution requesting President Taft to pardon W. S. Harlan, S. E. Huggins, C. C. Hillton, Robert Gallagher and »v alter E. Grace, of the Jackson Lumber Company, Lockhart, Ala., who are serv ing a term in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for peonage. The resolution recites that "it is the universal opinion among those who know the facts of the case that, if guilty at all, the defendants were only technically guilty and had no intention of offending against the laws.” MONROE GROWERS SAY PEACH CROP IS SAFE JULIETTE, Ga., March 6.—According to advices received her, the peach crop in Monroe county was hurt very little by the recent cold snap. Peach growers throughout the county are of the opinion after Investigating their orchards that a big crop of peaches will be harvested in this county this season. FIRST TIKE IIP TMIFF IT THE EHR* SESSION Democrats Think Tariff Will Be Changed and Reciprocity < Bill Then Passed . 'U®*- -Jr ***• -* •x, -- '4~ Ay WASHINGTON. D. C„ March 4—The turbulent scenes incident to the death of the 61st -congress, and its sins of com mission and omission, have almost been forgotten already in the interest that re volves around the assembling of the 82d congress on April 4, In response to the call of President Taft. Incidentally, it may be stated that the president display ed, more backbone than he was generally credited with having. Few Republicans of prominence and no Democrats believed that he would make good his threat to assemble congress in extra session If the Canadian reciprocity agreement failed. Scores of hats—statesmen and politicians always wager hats—were lost as a result of the president’s call, and* not a few pieces of new headgear will adorn the domes of pewspaper men who profited at the expense of statesmen. At the capitol yesterday it was impossible to find a senator who believd there would be an extra session, though all agreed that reciprocity had no chance. And tonight the Democrats are rejoic ing at what they regard the greatest po litical blunder ever made by a political leader. They can scarcely believe that the president has actually called a con gress, the lower branch of which will be controlled and dominated by the Demo cratic party, to assemble with a view to enacting his legislative program. "I do not understand the reason or necessity for the extraordinary session of congress. Undoubtedly the commis sioners of the Canadian government in their negotiations with the American commissioners knew that the president of the United States had no power fur ther than to submit the agreement en tered Into to the American congress, with his recommendation for Its adop tion. They also knew that the time of convening and adjourning of the late session of congress was fixed by law. The president submitted the agreement to the congress with his favorable rec ommendation, and the congress consid ered It, but failed to enact it Into law. I don’t see anything more that the president could have constitutionally promised or agreed to do other than he has done. If he undertook to do more than this he had no warrant under our constitution for it. WOULD REMIT *5,000,000. "The proposed agrement, If made a law, would result in our government remitting something less than $5,000,000 in duty yearly that It now collects. If this entire sum was applied to the re duction of the cost of living and distrib uted among our ninety million people, the saving to each would be infinitesi mal. "The agreement does not seem to me to be of that tremendous importance requiring an extraordinary session of congress. It is a fact, further, that the Canadian parliament has not yet ratified the agreement, and even though the agreement was of that paramount importance as to require an extraordi nary session of congress it would have been time enough to have called it af ter the Candian parliament had rati fied the agreement. "Georgia is sure to fare well in the distribution of committee places. Ad amson will get the chairmanship of the committee on interstate and foreign com merce, Bartlett will land the chairman ship of the committee on accounts and a place on the appropriations commit tee: Hardwick will be assigned to the chairmanship of the committee on coinage, weights and measures, and will also be a member of the rules commit tee: Edwards will hold his place on the rivers and harbors committee; Roden berry will probably get on the judiciary committee: Hughes may be assigned to public buildings committee or military affairs in addition to his place on the public lands committee; William S. How ard, of the fifth, will probably land on the labor committee and possibly on military affairs; Lee will hold his place on the agricultural committee; Tribble of the eighth will get foreign affairs; Bell will remain on postoffices. & JOHNSON THREATENS CANNON WITH ORICK ON FLOOR OF HOUSE Kentucky Member Threatens Lively Tilt When He Was Not Recognized by Speaker BY MAJMPX SMITH. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.—Mark ed by acenes of the wildest disorder, w:th Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, refusing to meet President Taft; Senator Bailey, of Texas, handing in his resignation, and Representative Johnson, of Kentucky, threatening Speaker Cannon with a brick, , the 61st congress adjourned today. Within an hour after adjournment President Taft called the 62d congress to convene In extraordinary session April 4. Not in the memory of the oldest veter an in either body have such scenes been enacted around the capitol. It was nec essary at one point to threaten the *' tire Democratic aide of the house vltil arrest. "UNDER THE MACBI” "Under the mace.” Thia did no goo<L The minority, individually and collect ively, showed little respect for tha sa cred symbol of the authority of the bosy« , The violent scenes continued. The house employes, including ths guards at the doors of the chambers, stared wide-eyed and agape at .the un precedented picture, and while they neg lected their duty, hundreds of specta tors crowfied past them and In on ifce usually inviolate floor. Men and womeb fought for places in the rear and around the side of the chamber, jostling one an other and crowding the representatives, who were too Interested to take exception to the invasion, which at any other time would have been bitterly and actively resented, in turn remained spellbound by the incidents that occurred within klret oscopic rapidity within the chamber. TARIFF BILL DROPPED. Finally, when it was apparent that ths Democratic filibuster against tha tariff board bill had progressed to a point where the postoffice appropriation bill was about to fail of passage, rendering an extra session necessary. Canadian reciprocity, the Republican leaders yield ed and the administration’s pet meas ure was thrown overboard to save the day. Chairman Payne, of the ways and means committee, asked unanimous con sent that it might withdraw, and amid deafening cheers from the victorious Democrats, gloomy silence from the Re publican side, the bill was consigned to the legislative ash heap. Then the postoffice appropriation bill was finally passed, and the house, with one of those quick transitions of mcod for which that body is famous, proceed ed, by unanimous consent, to pass a res olution thanking Speaker Cannon for the manner in which he had ever the house. With a kfndly speech by Speaker-to-be Champ Clark, arts Ing i salute to Speaker Cannon and a round of crushing cheers for the veteran Dan- 9 ville warrior, the first man to serve-30 years In the body and the second to j»re slde as speaker for eight years, the house adjourned. After a sequel of thrills which have followed each other more rapidly and more unexpectedly and more jarringly than at the close of any previous ses sion of congress, the senate completed its labors at 12:18 o’clock this afternoon. SUNDAY BILL PASSES. Not until half an hour before the gavel of Vice-President Sherman fell did the members of the senate know that the biggest of the annual appropriation billi, the sundry civil bill, would go through. And up to the very minute the confer ence report on that measure was agreed to in the senate practically every mem ber was on pins and needle* as to the fate of several of the big appropriation bills. The last 24 hour* of the session in the senate proved a fitting climax for the last week of the session. The week be gan with the filibuster of the insurfpant senators, together with a handful of the Republican regulars and ano Jier group of Democrats, against a vote on the Lorimer case, resulting in an all night session. A compromise on the Lorimer filibuster, made possible by the strength taxing and wearying struggle, through a night and a day, only led another filibuster, that of the Democrat* 1 on the tariff board bill. Another trying ordeal for all warring factions followed. And again a compromise was readied. It was then desired to save the aptiro prlatlon bills. No sooner had lie tariff board fili buster com* to an end when another against • the appropriation measures loomed upon the horizon. Many of the biggest and moat important of th* an nual supply measures were hanging in the balance. Bills like the sundry civil, the naval, postofflee, the pension and the general deficiency measures. SUPPLY BILLS FINALLY PASSW. Tediously did the senate try to w md its way through the legislative maze, and it was nerve-racking work. There . was a relenting of the filibuster against the supply bills as th* hours wore on. And finally they were pushed through at less than 24 hours before the closing of the session. “The most violent day in the most violent session of the most violsnt • house.” Even this is an inadequate description of the scenes in the house of representa tives today, according to members and clerks of the body whose recollections cover a period of 30 years. After a continuous session of nearly twenty seven hours, that tried the patience of members, frazzled their nerves and strained their tempers to the breaking point, the wind up was, in away, In evitable. Precipitated by a determined Denu cratic filibuster against the administra tions—desired permanent tariff board bill, the riot in the house in the conclud ing hours passed all bounds of parlla-'* mentary decorum, broke all precedents and established a record for violence and disorder that, it is the general hope, will, stand undisturbed for all the years to come. The most distressing of all the incidents of the day in the house was admittedly the colloquy be tween the speaker and Representa tive Johnson, of Kentucky. It was at the conclusion of a roll call, during the coure of which the Democratic side pdrposely created so much confusion that there was great delay and the voice of the clerk calling the names of mem- j bers could hardily be heard. Mr. John son sought to have his name recorded, » insisting that he had been skipped, and the speaker delayed recognition of him. Purposely, Mr. Johnson thought "If you were a younger mto I’d hurl | a brick at you,” yelled Johnson, sav agely, standing immediately in front of the speaker’s desk and brandishing his J first in the air, _ I NO. 48.