The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-06
CONGRESS ENDS ITS WORK
ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE REACHED
LAST MIGHT.

61SOO EhGN NM 4 SAAN y A(AAS 49, - -
LAST MIGHT.
The Closing Scenes in Both Houses
Comparatively Tame - The Dur
borrow Worlds Fair Bill and the
sundry Civil Appropriation Bill the
Last Important Measures Put
Through.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Ccngress ad-
tourned tonight to meet on the first Mon
day in December. The worlds fair appro-
priation problem having been solved and
the sundry civil bill having been passed
there was nothing OF sufficient importance
to keep congress here any longer. when
every senator and representative was eager
20 get away. President Harrison, like
everybody else who has been kept here by
the deadlock Ia the Honse, was very glad
20 have it broken and to be able to plan to
20 at once to his sick wife, but it is not true
that he requested a speedy adjournment be-
cause his wife was worse and needed him. II
his wife was worse, as everybody under
stands who knows his devotion 60 her, he
would not have waited a day for
congress to adjourn. As matter of fact,
euc 10 DcllSIs AIOH6NcHt bu6 EbbAuontt WIN
as is usual On the last day of the session,
went to the capitol tonight to sign bills was
very much gratiied when he had signed
the last one and could say to the customary
committees appointed by the two Houses TO
ask whether he had any further communi-
cation to make that he had nothing more to
suggest to them. By tomorrow night most
of the senator's representatives and high Of
f1cers will have followed the example of the
AfF.
vacation.
= The President departed at II o'clock to-
night for Loon Lake, n. Y, where his
wife is seeking health.
Speaker Crisp and the other House leaders
were gratifisd to have Tom Watson's
'yearnings for martyrdom disappointed by
she adjournment, which prevented even
consideration Of the reports Of the commit
tee and of Jerry Simpson, which were sub
united to-day, but will not be printed Of
y6cially for several days, and will probably
never be brought before the House. Mr.
Watson, who hoped to be reprlmanded, il
! not expelled, or, at the least, would have
an opportunity TO f1libustsr against the
! consideration Of the report till be attracted
national attention again, Is sorely disap-
pointed.
The dying hours Of the session were lack
ing In excitement, save for the pres
( ence Of the President and two mem
fbers Of his cabinet, and an un-
usually large crowd of people In the CALLER
laes. Nearly all the senators and represen-
sfatives in the city were In their seats when
abe clock pointed to the hour set for adj
adjournment.
The following bills received the Prssi-
dents approval and became laws:
I The joint resolution authorizing foreign
exhibitors at the worlds Columbian expOst-
zion 90 bring 10 this country foreign
laborers from their respective countries
for preparing and making their exhibits
. The joint resolution extending an invita-
ton to the King and Queen Of Spain and
the descendants OF Columbus 70 participate
in the worlds Columbian exposition open
ing ceremonies
The joint resolution providing for the
payments OF salaries Of officers and smployes
of congress.
The worlds fair bill
The sundry civil appropriation and ssv-
eral bills Of relief, and private pension bills.
The bill providing for lowering the hight
OF the bridge proposed 30 be constructed
across the Ohio river between Cincinnati
and Covington was the only bill which
failed OF his signature.
THE PRESIDENT GOES TO THE CAPITOL.
Shortly after 8 O'Clock, as is customary on
such occasions, the President arrived az the
capitol Owing to the absence of many
cabinet officers from the city, the President
was accompanied only by Secretary OF State
Foster, Secretary Noble and Private Sesre-
tary Halford. Soon after arriving the
worlds fair bill was presented for his sig
nature. and in few minutes it had become
a law. The pen used for the purpose
was given TO Editor Elliott
F. Shepard. The other bills followed, and
for some minutes the President was kept
busy athxing his name to various meas
ures, consisting principally, however, OF
n lie nf r1rfpn A. n
small number we're presented, and be soon
completed his task and spent the remainder
of bis time talking Co senators aud
others who happened in. II
was noticed that the President
was particularly anxious TO leave WASH
tngton, and he would frequently ask the
hour and probable time of adjournment
At IL O'Clock he was told that no more
measures would be presented for his ap-
proval, and five minutes after he was on
his way to the station.
THE DAY IN THE HOUSE.
BIZ the associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Sat noon to-day
the House resumed, In committee of the
whole, consideration Of the Durborow
worlds fair bill.
Mr.. Cummings OF New York made bitter
epeech against the proposition, which he
characterized as one which was intended to
loot the treasury. The worlds fair propo-
sition had 50 mixed itself up with the gov
'ernment that it was difficult to tell which
was the worlds fair and which was the
government. The remnants OF the
Former congresses had covered the
doors 80 that it could hardly
be told whether the present congress or the
heel taps Of former congresses ran the
House. 1t was matter OF pride with him
that he had filibustered against this looting
appropriation.
Mr.. Fellows Of New York eloquently sup
ported the bill The work, he said, was
governmental one The idea Of the fair had
been born in congress- and had its inception
here. From start to finish it was a govern
mental work. He had been appealed to as
a democrat TO refuse bis aid TO the PROPOSE
zion, which his colleagues design ated
as one to loot the treasury. But
he had received his commission from a
higher democratic authority than the demo-
cratic majority in this congress He had
received it from the platform Of the demo-
cratic convention, which had favored the
fair as a national enterprise. When he
came to receive directions that would con- ]
troll him as democrat be preferred rather
TO receive them from democratic conven-
tlon than from part of his colleagues on this
floor.
The debate continued until O'Clock.
Much Of it was foreign to the question pend