Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-08-06
THE CLOSING SCENES
How the First Session of Con-
gress Ended.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM IN THE HOUSE.

SpeC18k kF0lu w as bearing the FTSB1OOnB
Towards Loon Lake--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 a 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
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-
journment 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 filled
the galleries of the House at its night
session, and the same reason brought an
unusual attendance of members. Prompt
ly at 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-
agreed to icarried $57 1897, 1923, being so,
600, 239 less than the bill as it passed the
Senate, and So, GA 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 a
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, 169 to IA.
Mcmillan Dem, Tenn.) offered a reso-
luton (Which was adopted) providing for
the appointment of a committee of tn rec
members to join a like committee of the
Senate in informing the President
that Congress was ready to ad-
journ, and to ask if he had any further
communications to make. The Speaker
Dem., N. W 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 ad
iourn, had performed it's duty and the
President had said that he had nothing
further to communicate.
1t was just 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 Worlds Fair. This
went through without objection. 1t
lacked five seconds of the eleventh hour
when a dozen members shouted wildly for
recognition, waving papers in their
hands, but they were too late. Speaker
Crisp announced that the hour of II
o'clock had arrived, and bringing his
gavel down with a bang, declared the
first session of the SD Congress ad-
journed without day.
A great shout went up from members
on the floor; great bundles of waste paper
were thrown high into the air and fell in
showers on the happy Congressman, while
from the press gallery the deep reso-
nance of the doxology: "Praise God from
Whom All Blessings Flow" struck a re-
sponsive cord in the floor and gallery and
dignif1ed old members stood at their
and Joined in the hymn.
A great shout of applause went up at
its conclusion, and the press gallery choir
responded with some verses about Speak
er Crisp and ex-Speaker Reed being jolly
good fellows and concluded with must
cal query of Congress Watson as to what
constituted Congressional jag.
In the Senate, which had been doing
nothing all the evening but waiting pa
tiently, Mr.. Allison, at 1925, reported
the house adjournment resolution sub
shutting for Saturday, July 30, at p. m: +,
Friday, Aug. 5, at II p. m" The reso-
luton was agreed to and the customary
committee of two (Messrs. Allison and
Germany were appointed to wait upon the
President of the United States.
Thanks were rendered to the Vice
President and the Vice-President pro tenn
(Mr. Manderson) by motions made by
Democratic Senators.
At 1880 the Senate Committee re-
ported that they had waited upon the
President, and he had no further business
to lay before Congress.
The Vice President paid a fitting trib-
ute to the two Senators who had died dur
ing the session (Messrs Plumb and Bar
ber), and appropriately acknowledged the
vote of thanks and then declared the Sen
ate adjourned without day.