The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-03-15

fourth Conference Committee return.
ed, and Morrison reported the final
failure to reach an agreement. In a
brief written statement, which he
sent to the Clerks desk to be read, he
said that all points could be comprom.
lsed except in regard to the fifth sec
tion of the bill, and that,
AS A LAST RESORT,
the Democrats had proposed that that
section should be so modified as sim.
ply to prevent the use of troops'in es.
tablishing and maintaining IN power
the Packard Government in Louisiana
and the Chamberlain Government in
South Carolina. He demanded the
House insist and ask for no further
conference. Eos ter offered resolu-
tion which, was read for information,
providing that there should be appro.
priated for the use of the
army for the first six months
of the fiscal year one half of the sum
appropriated for the current fiscal
year, and that all other questions be
left to be decided at the next session
of Congress. The Democrats cried out
against this, and, even when he modi-
fed it so as to provide for the support
OF the army for only three months,
they were unwilling even to accept
this. The ayes and noes were called
on Morrison's s motion to insist, and,
IN THE MIDST OF GREAT CONFUSION,
the roll was called us far as the letter
H, the Democrats all voting on the one
side. and the Republicans, without ex.
ception, on the other. At five min.
utes before IL Speaker Randall inter-
rupl ed the call, saying that it was a
physical i'm possibility that it should
be completed before the expiration of
the Congress-, and, having announced
his signature to several enrolled bills,
read his farewell address to the
House.
Hoping to gain full sway before
quorum was present, the jobbers had
their plan of campaign marked out in
detail, to have Holman sent to the
Senate on a conference committee,
when they would be unmolested.
Barely had Holman left the chamber
when a rush of bills went down, but
a disagreeable surprise was in
store for the so sanguine jobbers.
Eden, of Illinois, arose and informed
the crestfallen group that he had
promised Mr.. Holman "to object" to
everything until he returned, a2d the
lobby was routed as effectively as last
night. By II o'clock
A TREMENDOUS CROWD
filled every conceivable space of the
chamber. 1t became impossible for
even members to move about, and in
vain for the speaker to direct them to
be seated. There was nothing, how.
ever, TO see save the commonplace
introduction Of bills and the roaring
mass of members striving for recog-
nation. At II Morrison struggles to
the front and holds up slip of paper.
Everybody OIL the floor knows that
this paper decides whether there will
or will not be all extra session.
There is something like a lull in the
roar Of the floor and the cease]ess hum
of the galleries. Morrison says some
thing. He cannot be heard even by
the speaker. A great shout of Loud
err breaks out among the benches.
"Take the desk !" shouts some one,
impulsively, but he modestly and
persistently sits in his place, and finally
announces that the house and senate
have disagreed upon the clause of the
army bill which forbiGs the use of
troops in South Carolina and Louisia-
ma.
Foster presented project for allow
ing half the preparation of last year
$l2,000,000, for six months, bat the
Democrats cried it down. "Then,'
said Garfield. "You must take the re-
sponsibility,' eve are willing" said
Morrison, complacently. Upon that
the ayes and noes were demand.
ed by the Republicans in fit of re-
venge, since the calling of the ayes
and noes would take up the remaining
forty-five minutes of the session, leav.
ing grist of unground grain in
every hopper of the Legislative mill. It
was manifest that the roll could not
be concluded, so the formality was
dispensed with to give Randall an op.
portunity to read his curiously incon-
sequent address, which, being read,
made no deep impression on the thous.
ands who listened so attentively. The
reading required something like ten
minutes, and it was just two minutes
to IL when he ended. Then, peering
through his glasses at the clock across
the hall in front, he brought the gavel
down for the last time, and the Con-
gress which began with Kerr a year
and a half ago had ended.