Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-05
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CONGRESS ADIEU. The Forty-Seventh Leaves
 the Stage ON WHICH IT TARRIED LONG With a Liberal Record of Work
 UndOne. CLOSING HOURS OF THE SESSION. A Time to Try Speaker
 Keifer's Tact.
HOURS OF THE SESSION.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

l H0uES-O1OS1nR
 Seventh Congress-BOth Houses Sitting Through the Night-Presfdent Arthur
 Signing Bills in the Wee Sma' HOurs-A | Glimpse of the Work Done, also of that
 Left Undone.
 WASHINGTON, March 4.-The usual busy scenes, and the almost feverish haste with which great measures are rushed through in the dying throes of Congress, marked the last hours of the Forty-seventh Congress, which has now added it's record to the his tory of American legislation. So many and so important were the measures that were pending final disposition that the session dragged long into the hours of night, and it was not until this morning that the adjourn ment sine de was taken. In the Senate at once after coming together, Senator Davis in a short speech rendered his resignation as Vice President pro tenn, and Senator Ed munds was elected to the office and after be- ing sworn in took his seat. The Democrats and Senator Edmunds voted for Senator Bay ard, and theslatter, Senator Malone, Senator Davis and the Republicans voted for Sena- tor Edmunds. The river and harbor bill was reported from the Commerce committee, without recommendation, and a motion to
 
 making it's passage impossible. Among the measures passed by the Senate were the de- ficiency appropriation bill, the resolution providing a new mixed commission in &C., cordance with the treaty of 1866 between the United States and Venezuela, and the bill to amend the law relating to the recovery of damages for the infringement of patents. Provision was made for Charles H. Reed by an amendment to the deficiency bill directing | the Attorney General to pay him, for his ser vices in defending Charles H. Guiteau, any sum he may fix upon as proper compensa- ton, not, however, to exceed $3,O0O. The conferees on the sundry civil appropriation bill reported a disagreement, and after an expression of opinion from various Senators in favor of the doctriRe that appropriation bills ought to be confined to appropriating money to- execute existing laws it was unani- mously decided to ask another conference At 12 o'clock MT. Edmunds rapped on the table and said: ''The hour has arrived at which by the constitution and laws of the United States the Forty seventh Congress terminates and it becomes the duty of the chair therefore to declare this session ad- 1 iourned." He wished each Senator safe and pleasant journey to his home and felicity during the rest of his life. MT. Edmunds then left the chair and there was general handshaking In 8 few minutes the galleries were cleared and the Senate chamber was de- serted.
 In the House MT. Kelley presented the conference report on the tariff bill and it at once became evident that an effort for it's defeat would be made Members began to talk for and against the adoption of the re- port, but finally it was agreed that vote should be taken at o'clock, which was ac- 1 cordingly done and the report was adopted by 153 to 116, thus making the tariff bill agreed upon in conference of both houses a law The following democrats voted for it Messrs. Randall, Beltzhoover, Mutchler, Ermentrout Wise and Klotz, of Pennsyl- vania; Bliss Hardy and Scoville, of New York; Hardenbergh, Harris and Ross, of New Jersey; Ladd, of Maine; Morse, of Massachusetts; Fulkerson, of Virginia; Will son, of West Virginia, and Speer, of Georgia-sixteen in all. The fol- lowing Republicans voted against it: Messrs. Bayne, Brum, Campbell, Brett and Miller, of Pennsylvania; Dawes, Mo Kinley, Robinson and Taylor, of Ohio Hs- zeltine, Ford, Rice and Taylor, of Missouri Hubbell, of Michigan, and Urner of Mary land. It will be noticed that while six Penn svlvania Democrats voted against their party and for the bill, five Pennsylvania RepubH- cans voted against their party and against the bill Pennsyl7anians say that the passage of the measure makes their State Democratic beyond peradventure, that it will cause in tense dissatisfaction there, and that the Re- publicans will be blamed responsible for it. It is probably this political bearing of the bill which caused the Pennsylvania Dem ocrats under the lead of MT. Randall to sup port it and the Republicans to vote against it. In the evening the contested election case of Lee vs. Richardson from the First Con gressional district of South Carolina furnish ed work. The contestant Lee, slightly built mulatto, with good voice and fluent delivery, presented bis case in 8 fifteen min utes speech and won considerable applause. The minority report seating him was adopt ed. but on the vote of the House to award him the seat the Democrats began flibuster- ing, no quorum voting. This. case of all the contested election cases partook most of what is known as the ''bloody shirt' element; one side claiming fair election had been prevented by intimidation and ballot box stuffing, the other side characterizing this charge as partisan subterfuge to secure the seat for man not elected, and of course it was case on which party prejudiees were most easily excited. Under these circum- stances it was no easy thing to carry the House through in it's last night, secure the passage of necessary legislation and keep both sides in good order. The Speaker, however, managed to do this with great tact. He continued to hold the reins not tight enough to hold the House in reserve nor suf get away from parliamentary decorum. Occasionally an individual member, first on one side and then on the other, would be- come restiye and insist upon this or that right, but just as @ crisis was apparently about to come 8 report from conference committee, the announcement of the signing of enrolled bills or some other privileged matter would put stop to it all They re- 1 mained in session until 6;30 this morning, the election being the pending question, each vote on it showing the lack of quor- um, while on every other proposition there | was an ample number to vote. The conference reports on thedefciency and sundry civil appropriation bills were adopted and joint resolution adopted appropriating S2O,oOO to enable the commissioner Of internal revenue to meet extra expenses necess1tated. by the } changes made in the matter of stamps by the ., tariff and revenue bill The House conferees on the sundry civil bill announced that they had been compelled to yield all the points of difference on general legislation mentioned in last nights report. Several members tried to get their measures through by unanimous consent during the short lulls in calling the roll on the election ease, but objections would be made or some Democrat would sar- castically insist upon the question of high privilege, the right to seat In the House Finally at half-past six MT. Robeson, re- minding the members of the day and hour ; and that they were before the people, said it was evident that too much whiskey had been taken out of bond tonight and suggested that by unanimous consent things should be left to stand as they were and a recess be taken. Several mem bers who had been hilarious during the night objected unless he would strike out the words about whiskey. MT. Robeson promptly withdrew the words, but some one | else objected and another roll call was had. : He then made formal motion for recess 7 till 9:30, which was agreed to-
 On reassembling all the members locked : much brighter and fresher. The election case still stood as barrier to all efforts to pass bills, but was made sufficiently elastic to permit such work to be done as was 8 necessity of the occasion. Nearly every one was good natared and noisy, and