The Portland daily press., 1893-03-06
THU CLOSING HOURS.
Last Legislative Day Of the Fifty
Second Congress.
NOTABLE VOTE OF THANKS TO THE
SPEAKER OFFERED BY
MIR. REED.

The New vice-President in the Chair
the Senate The. Retort Courteous by
Mr.. Reed in the House-The Senate in
Extraordinary Session.
WASHINGTON, March AT $50 a. M,
when the Senate was to assemble, only
few Senators were in attendance and so a
recess was taken for another quarter of
an hour and then for half an hour more
Mr. Henderson occupied the chair as
President pro TEN. of the Senate and at
intervals announced his signature of bills
on joint resolutions.
The usual resolution of ssthanks to the
Vice President for the dignified, impair
tial and courteous manner in which he
had presided over the deliberations OF
the Senate was passed and like resolu-
ton to Mr.. Manderson.
At 1880 the Vice President-elect was
announced and Nj. Stevenson, escorted
by Senator Mcpherson, took the chair to
the right of Vice President Morton. I'M
mediately after the President of the
United States and Cabinet were an
nounced and President Harrison and
the members of the Cabinet en-
tered the chamber. Mr.. Harrison was
escorted to one of the scarlet chairs, sit
ting in front of the clerks desk. Imme-
dia5 ely afterwards the President-elect ar
rived, and Cleveland, escorted by Sena-
tor Rawson, took the chair next to
Harrison. His entrance into the chamber
was greeted with applause.
Vice President Morton then delivered
his farewell address and declared the
Senate of the fifty-second Congress ad-
journed sine die.
vice President Morton's Farewell Speech
The time fixed by the constitution for
the termination of the Fifty-second Con-
gress has arrived, and shall soon resign
the gavel of the president Of the Senate
to the honored son of Illinois who has
been chosen as my successor. | cannot.
however, take my leave of this distin-
guished body without offering my most
most grateful Acknowledgements OF the
honor conferred by the resolution just
adopted, declaring your approval OF the
manner in which have discharged the
duties of the Chair, and expressing my
deep sense of the uniform courtesy and
kindness. even in critical and compll-
Gated situations, extended to me as the
presiding officer by every member of this
BODY. If | have committed errors, you
have refrained from rebuking them; and
have never appealed in vain to your
sense of Justice and have ever received
your support.
NV association with the representa-
tiyes of the a. states of this great nation
in this chamber, will be among
the most cherished memories of my life;
and / can express no better wish for my
successor than that the same relations
Of courtesy and kindness that have new
er been limited by partisan lines or con-
trolled by partisan affiliations, and which
SO happily marked my intercourse with
senators, may be extended to him. And
now. senators and officers of the Senate,
from whom / have received so many
good offices in the discharge of my du-
ties, accept feeble expression of my
grateful appreciation of your kindness,
with my heartfelt wishes for your future
welfare, happiness in prosperity in life.
Is the Vice President-elect now ready
to take and subscribe to the oath of Of
flee?
Vice President stevenson's Speech.
Vice President Stevenson, after taking
the oath of Office, said:
Senators-Deeply impressed with
sense of it's responsibilities and OF It's
dignity, now enter upon the discharge
of the duties of the high Office to which
I have been called. I am not unmindful
of the fact that among the occupants of
this chair during the 104 years of our
constitutional history have been states
men eminent alike for their talents and
their tireless devotion to public duty.
Adams. Jefferson and Calhoun honored
It's incumbency during the early days of
the republic, while Arthur, Hendricks
and Morton have at a later period of our
history shed lustre upon the office of
| president of the most august delibera-
| tive assembly known to men. | assume
the duties of the great trust confided
with no feeling of self confidence, but
rather with that of grave distrust of my
ability satisfactorily to meet its require
ments. I may be pardoned for saying
that it shall be my earnest endeavor to
discharge the important duties which lie
| before me with no less of lmpartiality
and courtesy than of firmness and fidel-
| ity. Earnestly invoking the cooperation,
| the forbearance, the charity of each of
1rS members, HOW tuISI upOu my
duties as presiding officer of the Senate.
In Extraordinary Session.
As the Vice President closed his re-
marks he directed his secretary of the
Senate to read the proclamation OF the
President convening the Senate in ex-
| traordinary session.
McCook read the proclamation and
then the Senators, newly elected or re-
elected, were invited by the Vice Presi-
dent to come forward and take the oath
Of office, which they did.
All these preliminaries having been
duly disposed of the Vice President
| directed the sergeant-atarms to proceed
| to execution of the order of the Senate
| relative to the Inauguration of the Presi-
dent of the United States.
The procession to the portico of the
| Capitol then begun. Mr.. johnson, chief
| clerk of the Senate, announcing the order
| in which it was to move from the Senate
| chamber, which conformed exactly to
| +ba printed prOgramme already pub