Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-06
OF THE LAST HOURS.
Important Decisions Of the Supreme
Court in Louisiana Bond Cases.
SPEAKER KEIFER AND REPORTERS
He Replies to Resolutions Of Censure
Regarding His Conduct on
the Last Night.
LsneciaI Telegram to the Globe. |

AOG Ol any uISd1o OCSOLICO AAOSO
Of the lobbyists have disappeared, but the
corridors are filed with busy members
gathering up the thousand and one arti
cIes, the odds and ends, left over at the
end of the session. OF all the regular peo-
pie of the capitol no set of men are more
gratifed that the end has come than the
official stencgraphers. The debates of this
session have been very trying to even their
experienced ears, hands and heads, and
they have been obliged to employ large
amount of assistance in order to get
through with their labor.
THE SUPREME COURT
today is the center of a good deal of at
traction. It has not been in session for
nearly two months, having been meantime
giving its attention to the examination Of
cases argued before it, and to-day the &C
cumulated decisions of the two months are
to be announced. The stately Roscoe Conk-
ling has been in the city several days in
reference to business before this august
tribunal, and the number and Importance
of the cases it will decide to-day is very
great.
The house and senate employees are all
busy in the chambers of their respective
bodies,
PUTTING THINGS TO RIGHTS,
after the members have gathered their
possessions from their desks. Many mem
bers take farewell of their seats and the
halls of legislation with genuine sadness,
for to nearly half the house it is a long
farewell. A good many new members
have been here already, and in looking
over the ground have mentally selected the
seats which they hope they may occupy at
the next session, though, of course the
method of selection gives them no choice
when the time comes. Those who have
shown up thus far are a very young lot,
and the house employees are predicting that
the next house of representatives will be
regular kindergarten. The busiest depart
ment in the capitol to-day is the house
folding room. Every member is
sending out now all the extra
documents, and they are something
wonderful in bulk. For instance, each
member is entitled to twenty-five copies of
the Congressional Record and when you re-
member that each one of these consists of
nearly II, 200 pages and that the twenty
five copies of the Record make for both
sessions at least 800 volumes to each mem
Der, and that there are over 800 members,
thus aggregating about 10000 volumes
larger than the largest law document, you
begin to recognize the fact that the house
folding room is busy place to-day. The
departments are very busy to-day. They
are thronged with congressman, who have
been so pressed of late with their duties
that they have not had time to bother the
departments much.
TIE RECORD OF THE DEAD CONGRESS
is discreditable, no matter how it may be
reviewed. Its sins of omission have been
as fragrant as those of its commission. 1t
has passed tariff bill, tits true, but by the
house yielding its constitutional preroga-
tive and allowing the senate to usurp it.
1t has passed, also civil service bill, but
its champion is Democrat. 1t has kept
business in a constant fever and ferment,
begun on the very threshold of its session
with bill to repeal internal taxes on to-
bacco, and in its closing hours, after al
most paralyzing the great industry, gives
cents. 1t caused the impression to &c
abroad that customs duties were to be re-
duced, yet experience will show toe
soon that the very tariff bill
now law will largely increase the reve
nue.. With treasury filled to overfowing
it has refused to give the distilling inter
ests of the country needed relief, and, like
"Shylock," demands the pound of hesf
even if it producet a financial panic. Il
has disregarded the popular demand for 6
national bankrupt law. 1t has turned 6
deaf ear to the appeal for interstate com
merce and cheap transportation. 1t has
failed to relieve the overcrowded docket o1
the United States supreme court, and thu!
give litigants the chance in lifetime tt
get judicial determination of their dis
putes. 1t has done those things it ough
not to have done, and if there is any re
deeming feature to its credit it is not visi
BILE to the naked eye.
The Forty seventh congress will give il
history as the most
IMBECILE AND DANGEROUS
congress TO business interests eve
assembled. Its last hours may al
ter all be said to hav
been its best ones, for the house, th
more dangerous branch, was in dea
lock over a contested election case, an
thus all business was interrupted and tn
hungry lobby was held at bay. The clos
ing scenes, as all congressional clio;
ing scenes, were witnessed by packe
galleries. There is but little to amuse @
instruct those who were in them, stowe
away like sardines in box. So far a
the business of the session was concerned
it was over at 10 o'clock Saturday nigh
A colored brother held the hous
IN his grip, SO to speak, and only one bi
got through during the seventeen hour
preceding the death. By some strang