Connecticut western news., 1892-08-11
CONGRESS ADJOURNS.
A GIFT OF S2,5oo,oo TO THE CHI
 CAGO EXPOSITION.

she Total of Appropriations FootS Up
 S5O7, 1000, 900 as Against s463, 900, 900
 for the First Session of the Last Con-
 gress-The House H iIarious at the Close.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The 5th of August, 1892, will be remembered as a red letter day in the annals of legislation and in the history of the country, as it chronicles ad- journment of the first session of the Fifty Worlds fair bill appropriating s2, 300, 900 for that enterprise. The passage of the bill was without special incident, as it was 8 foregone conclusion. One hour was devoted to debate, and the final vote resulted: Yeas, lSl; nays, S3 A substitute of Mir. De Armond, of Missouri, allowing the Worlds fair managers to coin bullion to the extent of $, 1000 900 in souvenir coins, the seignor- age to go to the management (estimated at S2, 500, ,0OO and the premium on the coin, was rejected. The house not then being in mood to pass any general bills took a recess until o'clock in the evening.
 The Night Session.
 Expectation of an adjournment filled the galleries of the house at its night session, and the same reason brought aa unusual att tendance of members Promptly at ' o'clock Speaker Crisp called the house to order and soon after the Dhrborrow Worlds fair bill was reported from the senate. Mir. Jolley, of South Dakota, secured the passage of 2 senate measure regulating the time 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 Mir. Holman, of Indiana, presented the re- port of the conierees on the sundry civil bill Mir. Holman explained the nature of the agreement, detailing the items in dis pute and the compromises effected. He said the bill as finally agreed to carried $27, ,SS7, 42S, being $9,6O0, 2S9 less than the bill as it passed the senate and q, ,614, 246 more than its aggregate when it passed the house.
 Concerning the Pinkerton detective clause of the bill Mir. Holman admitted that the amendment adopted by the house was lit tie too broad, and that in the interest of speedy adjournment the house con ferees were obliged to accept the substi- ute submitted on the part of the senate. The chief stumbling block had been the amendment offered by MT. O'Neill, of Mis- souri, and adopted by the house, but cut out of the bill by the senate, to prevent any officer of the government having the power to make contracts with any corporation, firm or individual who employed Pinkerton detectives. After considerable discussion the conferees agreed to substitute for the amendment the following proviso:
 And no employee of the Pinkerton de- tective agency or any similar agency shall be employed in any government service or by any officer of the District of Columbia This relieved the application to government contractors.
 MT. Simpson, of Kansas, denounced ''the act of the representatives of the house in surrendering to the representatives of the plutocracy of the country" He called the Pinkerton employees armed thugs, rob bers and murderers."
 "You'n hear from this in the elections in the fall" said Mir. Simpson, ''and any one that votes for this amendment should be left at home. You should not surrender to the representatives of wealth"
 The Closing Scene in the House.
 Mir McMillin, of Tennessee, offered a resolution (which was adopted) providing for the appointment of a committee of three members to join like committee of the senate in informing the president that con- gress was ready to djourn and ask If he had any further communications to make. The speaker appointed Messrs. McMlllin, Fellows and ONeil as the committee.
 MT. McMillin, of Tennessee, reported that the committee appointed to join 8 committee of the senate and inform the president that congress was ready to ad journ had performed its duty, and the pres ident had said that he had nothing further to communicate.
 It lacked five seconds of the eleventh hour when 8 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 on his desk with a bang, de- clared the first session of the Fifty-second congress adjourned without day.
 A great shout went up from the members on the floor; great bundles of waste paper were thrown high into the air and fell in showers on the happy congressmen, while from the press gallery came the deep res. onance of the doxology. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" struck 8 responsive chord in the floor and gallery, and dignified old members stood at their desks amid the showers of falling paper and joined in the hymn.
 A great shout of applause went up at its conclusion, and the press gallery choir re- sponded with some verses about Speaker Crisp and ex-Speaker Reed being jolly good fellows, and concluded with musical query of Congressman Watson as to what constituted congressional jag. Then there was handshaking and many goodbys, and in half an hour the house of representatives was deserted. .e. ... ...... Senate Proceedings.
 Pursuant to an order of the day before the senate met at o'clock. Some business of routine nature was transacted, when ar executive session was held. When the doors were reopened the Worlds fair bill appropriating g., 5O0.OO0 was submitted read and without division passed, although several senators emphatically protested against its passage. Another conference was ordered on the pending sundry civil bill and recess was taken until o'clock Promptly at s o'clock. in a sultry atmos ! phere with we'll filed galleries, but a very sparsely occupied floor, the vice president | rapped the senate to order after the recess. Mir. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, attempt ed to obtain reconsideration of the vote | which tabled his resolution authorizing g subcommittee of the quadrocentennialc com mittee to go to Chicago and to employ 6 | clerk, etc.
 Mir. Coke, of Texas, st first declared that | if that motion was pressed he should ask { | yea and nay vote upon it (thereby disclos | ing the absence of a quorum), but on MT | Pettigrew offering to strike out everything providing for the employment of clerk ol involving expense to the senate the resolu tion was allowed to pass.
 Mir. Call, of Florida, was emboldened by I this incident to ask consideration of hi Cuban investigation resolution which wa, likewise laid over the other day. He alst had amended it by striking out everything relating to the employment of clerk ana stensgrapher, etc, and also had simplitiet 1t so that the resolution simply authorized | rial conditions of Cuha and the West Indi