The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-06-21
CONGRESS AFTER MIDNIGHT.
HOW STA TESMEN DISTORTED IN THE
SMALL MORNING HOURS.
TrnnsnctIng Public Business Under niHncuities
The Conferees-Ths Drunken Members
Butler In FIight-R Rainey TO the Rescue.

| Butler In Flight -Rainey to the Rescue.
| WAsH1NGToN June 20.-Congress adjourn
cd this morning at o'clock. After the passage
OF tho Sundry Civil bill. both chambers sat
seven hours in great confusion and disorder
| Il b ng frequent intcrmissions and transacting
| liro or no business till the tedious work OF en-
rolling the bill-wrlting 1t out. that is on parch-
| ment-was finished.
Confusion in the House means that In n long
room-roushly. a hundred feet by sixty-no ono
OF the three hundred mombors and twenty
officers Is silent or motoness Men are NOV
ing walking. talking shouting sometimes and
doing such speaking as goes into the Rero,d in
a shril high key; perhaps half the words can
be heard In the reporters gallery ten feet above
| the Speakers head. Down in front below the
Clerks desk in tho bear pit Of this bear garden.
are all the time. six. eight. ton men with folded
| slips OF papcrs-bls. reports. what not 2-and
these men at every lull in the storm. for in
stance. at this moment as the Speaker nm
nouuces the passage Of the Post Route bill. fling
themselves forward against the narrow table Of
the ofllcal reporters. both hands in the air.
and shout for recognition. Possibly one of
thom secures IT, The Speaker asks the consent
needed from the House Twenty men shout
Il object" The game Is lost.
Into this Babel. lit 10y quiet lights over head.
at II O'Clock come three dropping and tired
men. Atkins. Hewitt and Hae-thc three men
who have met three from the Senate. Window.
edy. or appeal. have In the last six hours fixed
the sum and shaped the sentences OF bin
Ho"se aescd clean gone s ES The aSs g2iSS AR ARns i%c
has not been out OF his clothes Tor forty eight
| hours. Hewitt, novor in high health, has not
| sept since Tuesday morning. and II is now
close on 10 Wednesday midnight. Hale. young
akc nG M MsTSaaT noGs and drSRs % T6s TRSn be- S
| had no sleep. For two days these men have not
been idling. Hour by hour. in continuous ,ses-
wrangling with three mon Qf different mind
over some three hundred points. big and little,
in bill which. printed in fnc type. would
cover this paRe and the ncXt Of to-day's
Sun. The Profits Of mail contractor in
Alaska balance on the v6rb these .wran-
glers. place in q well-drawn Amendment.
kansas lie under the point OF Howitt's pencil ms
he draws the Hot Springs clause over Igain.
Not department Of the Government scarcely
an officer. but has some interest somewhere ia
ing over Ave and half millions to England
under tho Halifax award. That was the last
siN men had sat. and lounged. and smoked
wranglnR tho while. conference Is not the
| orderly mntter II j. I'm Parliament; long
room cut in two by tabl, the Lords sitting in
line on one side. the conterees from the Com
mons, standing In hle on the other. written
taking a large part Of the last might and all
this dny the six men have sat around table in
a long committee room strewn with papers
Clerks are adding digesting copyng COLA
ting. Matters move slowly. Work once done is
straightway undone. Each -ct OF mon has once
gone back to its own chamber and received
fresh orders to persist. II is all over nt last
The fishery award goes in The clerks write out
the report The Senate conferees sign first /;
this faint reli, is left Of the ancient English
precedence. Tho pen is handed TO Atkins.
cannot sign with the award in. - he says
and steps aside Tor Hewitt 10 sign.
You ought TO sign II IL all the difference
between bslng a statesman and a politician"
says one OF his cOnferces. The long Tenncs-
seean shakes his head. Ho is a set man. not
given TO changing his mind; worn, too WITH
| two days work, he IA in no humor 10 yield.
ii9wii signs Hale Slgn5 ,-,.
50 they come to tue House. There clerk
PUTS the bill great pile OF blue paper; and
WIN u the cohlereh'e cpn4hlUre report on
Aklhs > ucsk., A snort sllrhce loloWs. uieh
Atklns tlsss. rnEe thkes ne report from ms
ihnd5 10 tho tlrrL : dosk; me Clerk rca y ~.
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