The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-08-06
THE CLOSING SCENES
EN 7
How the First Session of Con-
gress Ended.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM IN THE HOUSE,

Four Minutes After the Adjournment
Special Train was Bearing the President
Towards Loon LaSe--The sundry Civil
Appropriation BILL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The capitol
wears deserted look, as very many of
the congressman and Senators have left
for home By tonight only few will
be left in the city.
Four minutes after the two gavels de
scended in the Senate and House last
night, indicating the adjournment, a
special train started on its journey north
ward, bearing the President to his sick
wife at Loon Lake.
The capitol was crowded during the last
hours of the session with curious
sightseers anxious not to miss the inter
esting scenes that usually precede an ad
iournment of Congress-.
The utmost good humor prevailed on
the floors of both Houses during the clos
ing hours, and many expressions of good
will were exchanged alike between Dem
ocrats Republicans and third partyites
Expectation of an adjournment filed
the galleries of the H House at its night
session, and the same reason brought an
unusual attendance of members Prompt
ly at Z o'clock Speaker Crisp called the
House to order, and soon after the Dur
borrow Worlds Fair Bill, which as
amended passed the House in the after
noon, was reported from the Senate.
Mr.. Jolley, (Rep., South Dakota,) Sc
cured the passage of a Senate measure
regulating the times for holding sessions
of the United States Courts in South
| Dakota, and then the private calendar
was taken up. -,.
After the passage of several of these
bills Mr.. Holman, Dem, Ind.,) pre-
sented the report of the conferees on the
Sundry Civil bill. Mr.. Holman detailed
the nature of the agreement, detailing
the items in dispute, and the compro-
misses affected. He said the bill as finally
agreed to carried S57, ,837, 428, being &c.
| 900, ,239 less than the bill as it passed the
Senate, and 81, ,614, ,246 more than its ag-
| gregate when it passed the House. Con-
sidering the Pinkerton detective clause of
the bill, Mr.. Holman admitted that the
amendment adopted by the House was
little too broad, and that in the interest
of speedy adjournment Of the House
the conferees were obliged to accept the
substitute submitted by the Senate
After considerable wrangling the re-
port was adopted, 1863 to IA.
Mcmillan Dem, TENN offered a reso-
luton (Which was adopted) providing for
the appointment of committee of tn rec
members to join like committee Of the
| Senate in informing the President
| that Congress was ready to adj
! journ, and to ask if he had any further
communications to make The Speaker
appointed Messrs. Mcmillan, Fellows
! Dem, N. Y } and O'Neill (Rep.. Pa.) as
the committee.
In the interim between the transaction
of further business, the House devoted
itself to private pension and relief bills,
and large number of them were passed
at locomotive speed.
At 1910 o'clock the Secretary of the
Senate reported that the Senate had
adopted the resolution of the House agreed
to last week providing for adjournment at
2 o'clock last Monday with amendment
providing that adjournment should take
place at IL o'clock Friday night The
resolution as amended was agreed to.
Mr.. Mcmillan, Dem, Tenn.) reported
that the committee appointed to join a
committee of the Senate and inform the
| President that Congress was ready to adj
iourn, had performed its duty and the
| President had said that he had nothing
| further to communicate.
1t was lust one minute of II when a
resolution was offered directing the Presi-
dent to invite the representatives of the
nations Of the earth to attend the Inter
national Arbitration Congress, to be held
in Chicago during the WorId,s Fair This
went through without objection IL
lacked five seconds of the eleventh bour
when dozen members shouted wildly for
recognition waving paners in their
hands bnt they we're too late. Sneaker
Crisn announced that the hour of ii
o'clock had arrived and bringing his
eaveI down with a hang declared the
first session of the 52d Congress- adj
iourned without day
GREAT shout went nm from members
ON the floor. GREAT bundles of waste paper
were thrown bigh into the air and fell i'm
showers ON the bappv Conpressmen. while
from the press gallery the deep reso-
nance of the doxolory. osPraise God from
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