Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-08-06
WEARY STATESMEN
Turn Their Backs on the Halls
of Congress.
CLOSING ACTS OF THE SESSION


The Fair Bill Goes Through and the
Sundry Civil Measure Doesn't Get Left
Concession of the House on the Pin
kerton Clause-watson Condemned by
the Committee That Investigated His
Charges-A Report That Is no Comfort
to the Georgian The President
Hurries to Loon Lake.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The first session
OF the Fifty-second congress adjourned
last night at IL o'clock having settled the
differences between the house and senate
on the sundry civil bill. and given the
Worlds fair directors s., 100000 with
which to wag along and do s., 600, 900 worth
of work. The Worlds fair man sighs
when he thinks of the sum appropriated,
but consoles himself with the thought
that there will be another session in Decem-
Der, and that it will not be followed by
general election. The first business taken
up in the house was the Durborow fair
bill.
Went Through Very Easily.
There was no troub BILE in getting the "half
loaf for the fair through. There was
some speaking, but not much, on the sub
iect pending, some of the speakers stray
ing away and getting in their work on
some other issue. Cummings of New
York went down with his anti-fair colors
flying. Fellows of the same state made a
brilliant little speech for the enterprise.
Cummings said: at is with a feeling of
pride that 1 reflect that have filibustered
against this looting proposition" For this
he received the enthusiastic applause Of
one solitary man from Texas, Kilgore. He
then read in a sarcastic manner kilograms
demanding that he vote for the Worlds
fair.
Fellows Idea of the Fair.
In the course of his speech Fellows said
after reading the resolution adopted by
the Democratic national conventions:
"This resolution which 1 have read in
your hearing recognizes as distinctly as
language can express thought two ideas.
The first is that this exposition is national
undertaking. 1t so declares in words.
Second, it imposes upon the Democratic
party, in far convention can
bind its representatives, the duty
of making a contribution of financial
aid to that governmental enterprise. And
with the highest respect for the opinions
of my associates on this side of the house,
when come to receive direction that shall
control my action as Democrat prefer
to receive it from a convention where
every cong ressional district in the United
States has its representative rather than
to take it from part of my colleagues
upon this floor
Takes IA Parting shot at Raum.
During the debate in committee of the
whole the "fire" was scattering Enloe
took the opportunity to "blast" Commits
sioner Raum, declaring the commissioner
the greatest curiosity of the age, "wbo, de-
spite the blots on his official career, had
been retained in office by the power of the
president" This brought reply from
Dolliver, who defended Raum and his rec
ord. Brosius of Pennsylvania said it was
cowardly to attack a man who could not
reply. He defended Raum's administra-
tion. The bill being reported to the house
and the speeches of Fellows and others
completed vote was soon reached.
The Worlds Fairs Great Day.
1t is a peculiar fact that Friday has been
a lucky day for the fair Everything of
favorable Importance to the Worlds fair
has happened ON Friday. The bill Great
ing the fair was introduced on Friday; the
bill was passed on Friday; the president
signed it on Friday; the first meeting of
the national commission was held on Fri
day; Columbus discovered America on Fri
day; the dedication of the fair will be held
on Friday. And SO to complete the mat
ter as far as it has gone the Durborow bill
passed on Friday. The first vote was on a
substitute permitting the fair man.
ayers to buy S3,000,0O0 in silver bullion
and have it coined into S, 900, 900. This
was beaten-76 to 139.
The Final Vote on the Bill.
Then the question came up on the pas
sage of the &, 500. eco bill, the vote being
yeas, 131; nays, So The vote against the
bill was as follows: Alexander, Antony,
Bacon, Bailey, Bankhead, Beeman,
Blanchard, Branch, Breckenridge of Ar
kansas, Breckenridge of Kentucky, Bum,
Byrnes, Cate, Clarke of Alabama, Cobb of
Alabama, Cobb of Missouri, Covert
Cowles, Cox of Tennessee, Grain, Craw-
ford, Culberson, Cummings, De Almond,
De Forest, Dickerson, Dockery, Donovan,
Dunphy, Edmunds, Ellis, Enloe, Epes,
Everett, Forney, Goodnight, Heard, Hem
derson of North Carolina, Holman, Jones,
Kyle, Lanham, Lawson of Virginia, Law
son of Georgia, Lester of Virginia, Lester
of Georgia, Little, Long, Mallory, Nc
Creary, McMiIlin, McRea, Meredith,
Montgomery, Mutchler, Norton, Oates,
O'Farrell, Patterson of Tennessee, Payn-
ter, Pearson, Pierce. Richardson, Sayers,
Shell, Terry, Tucker, Turner, Turpin, Van
Horn, Warner, Warrington, Wheeler of
Alabama, Williams of North Carolina
all Democrats. To these is added the fol-
lowing Alliance men: Baker, Davis, Hal
ver<en, KEN, McKeighan, Otis, Simpson,
Watson, Winn. The Republicans all
voted for the bill.
REACHED ADJOURNMENT AT LAST.
The House Recedes from the Piukerton
Amendment-Closing transactions
After the passage of the worlds fair bill