Did and Didn't

The usual last-day filibuster did not develop in the Senate, which passed away calmly, giving hasty consideration to only a few minor bills. The House did not give over its closing hour or so tc songs as it often does. Instead there were eulogies and valedictories because Speaker Gillet was leaving to join the Senate. Representative Longworth, majority Floor Leader, retiring from that post to become Speaker, also spoke:

"I have learned to like, even more than I did before, those who have been in sympathy with me and those with whom I have had occasional quarrels, including those gentlemen whom I hope are only temporarily absent from the Republican Party.

"I am going to violate the rules now, and I hope the Speaker will not call me to order, when I ask you to give three cheers for Jack Garner.* I like you ill, and I like Blanton."* They cheered. So the 68th Congress closed its last session. In three months it had accomplished chiefly:

1) The passage of the annual appropriation measures.

2) The passage of an act to increase the pay of postal employes as well as to increase postal rates.

3) No legislation as follows:

P:No important farm relief bill (House passed one).

P: No measure for the disposal of Muscle Shoals.

P:No action on the McFadden Bill to allow National Banks to establish branches (House passed one).

P: No bill for the reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government.

P:No action on the proposal to enter the World Court.

P:No action on the Isle of Pines Treaty.

P:No action on the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey.

P:No action on the Cramton Bill to set up the Prohibition Unit as an independent Bureau in the Treasury Department.

P:No action on the proposal for Government purchase of the Cape Cod Canal.

P:No action on the Gooding Bill to prevent railways from charging lower rates on longer than on shorter hauls.

During the session, 4,800 measures were introduced in the Senate and 13,000 in the House.

* Representative John Nance Garner, of Texas, seriously ill; reported recovering.

*Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton of Texas, wordy Congressman from Abilene, sometimes spoken of as the "most troublesome man in the House." He had the record, in the last Congress, for making points of no quorum (forcing roll calls, which in the House, with 435 members, take nearly ha f an hour each). In all, the House had 309 calls-ISO hours of legislative time.