The Portland daily press., 1892-08-06
Congress Will Take a Rest From the
Labor Of Doing Nothing.
THE HOUSE FINALLY SUCCEEDS IN
AIDING THE FAIR.
The Durbarow Bill Passed Appropriat-
ing 81, 500 900, just Half the Sum the
Senate Was Willing to Give-The Last
of the Session in the Democratic House
Fittingly Tame-The Leavetaking in
the Senate.

WASHINGTON, August 5.-At noon to-
day, the House resumed in committee of
the whole the consideration of the Dur
borrow worlds fair bill.
Mr.. Cummings of New York made a
bitter speech against it and Mr. Fellows
of New York supported the bill. The
|. debate continued until o'clock. Much
ofit was foreign to the question pending
and referred to the commissioner of PEN
sions. Precisely at o'clock the chair
man of the committee of the whole
stated that under the order of the House
the committee must rise. Having arisen
the Durborow bill was reported to the
House. The pending amendment (the
only one) was a substitute offered by Mr..
DeArmond of Missouri for the first sec
ton of the bill. 1t provides that if the
Worlds Columbus Exposition shall de-
posit at mint of the United State suf-
fcient quantity of silver bullion it shall
be coined and delivered to the expOsi-
ton in half dollar coins in amount not
exceeding $5.000,000.
The
Durborow Bill Was Then Passed,
yeas, 131; nays, 83. Messrs. Dingley and
Reed voted aye. The other Maine mem
bers were not recorded. The bill appro-
PIRATES $2,0OO,OOO for the fair.
A motion by Mr.. Reilly of Pennsyl-
vania, to reconsider the vote by which
the bill was passed was laid ON the table.
The Speaker appointed, Messrs. Fitch,
Geissenhaimer Deforest, Ray and Har-
mer as a special committee in inquire
into the execution of the election laws in
New York.
When the House was called to order at
7 o'clock less than twenty-five members
were present. A couple of dozen private
pension bills were passed and Mr.. Hol-
man of Indiana, presented the confer
ence report on the sundry civil appropri-
alton bill. Mr.. Holman stated that the
bill, as finally agreed upon, appropriated
1927, ,S27, 900, or $9,600,000 less than the
bill as passed by the Senate, and $2,614,-
600 more than as passed by the House.
After a discussion, purely personal, the
conference report was agreed to-l69 to
IA. This disposed of the last appropri-
alton bill pending.
posed Of and on motion of Mr.. McMillin,
committee was appointed to join the
Senate committee to inform the Presi-
dent that
Congress Was Ready to Adjourn.
The committee consisted of Messrs. Nc
Millin, Fellows and O'Neill of Pennsyl-
vania. A message was received from the
Senate announcing the agreement to the
conference report on the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill. At 1920 the Speaker
signed the sundry civil appropriation
bill. This was the signal for general
leave-taking. The Senate amendment to
the adjournment resolution fixing IL to-
night as the hour of adjournment, was
agreed to.
MI. McMillin then reported that the
President had told the committee which
waited upon him that he had no commu-
nication to make A resolution was adj
opted for the appointment of commit
tee to codify the existing pension laws.
The hour of II having arrived the
Speaker declared the House adjourned
without day. The galleries broke into
the doxology but the adjournment was
very tame.