Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-03
A QUIET DEATH .
Not Much Excitement in the House
at the End.
ANXIOUS TO CLOSE THE EXTRA SESSION,
Members Were Eager to Get Gu,
of the City.
ON E L1V ELY INCIDENT,

This session of Congress died a very quiet
| death today. The scenes were almost en-
| tirely devoid of excitement or interest.
There was some hustle through the efforts
OF members to get some of their little
bills through and the gathering up of odds
and ends and looking out for the welfare of
session employees, but the barrenness of the
calendar and the backwardness of general
business gave very little to fuss over, and
| the principal exhibition was that of eager
ness to get away.
1t Is understood that very large number
of the members of the House will remain
i'm the city until December, many of them
having their families here now. Probably
half of them will remain. Most of them
living in states where elections are held
will go home tonight or have already gone.
Probably a fourth of the House left with
out waiting for the hour Of adjournment.
Speaker Crisp to Leave Tonight.
The Speaker will leave tonight going
home by the roundabout way of New York
and Chicago. He was unable to get to the
fair, and will take this occasion to visit
the ground and get some sort of an i'm
preston of what the fair was like after
which he will go home and remain until
time for his return at the beginning of the
regular session. The democratic members
Of the committee on ways and means will
remain here and continue their work on
the tariff bill without INTERRUPTION and n
is expected they will have their bill COM
pleted by the end of two weeks
1t will then be submitted to the minority
of the committee, who will have ten DAYS
in which to prepare their report The appro-
priation committees, or rather the clerks of
these committees and the chairmen will
have considerable to do during the recess
IL they can get the estimates in time and
hat
vanced by the time Congress meets There
will be nothing done officially or unoffi-
cialiy toward the work of the other COM
mittees.
The Clerks Salaries.
The closing hours of the session In the
House were marked by lively contest over
the salaries of the per diem clerks and MEM
bers' and Senator's clerks Of the House
ard Senate for the coming recess Mr.
Richardson frenn.) introduced a resolution
providing for the payment of these clerks.
ana stated that their services will be needed
for some time during this month Willie
the services of the members clerks will
De needed all through the month.
Inc resolution was resisted by several of
the Texas and Arkansas members. On a
yeas to Y nays. whereupon the point of no
quorum was raised.
Representative Hutchinson of Texas led a
small band of fiilibusters in OPPOSE
49, 'ie insoiuhoh. MI. fNlcnaroson sue
ceeoeo IN rallying quorum. however, and
peat the hiibuSters at every point. At
O'Clock the resolution was agreed to.
Mr.. Holman's Embarraxsment.
When the committee appointed to wait
upon the President returned to the House
to announce their report Mr.. Holman, act
ing as spokesman, said that the President
had no further communica tons to make to
Congress during this session and he wished
them an agreeable trip home. Messrs
Dfngley and Turner, the two other members
of the committee nudged Mr. Holman and
told him to finish the report, but he got red
In the face and said no more.
The further expression which the mem
bers OF the committee wished Mr.. Holman
to report to the House from Mr.. Cleveland
was that Mr. Cleveland said that he con-
graduated the House upon the satisfac-
tory accomplishment Of the work for which
they were called in session.