The morning call., 1893-12-05
HEARD in SILENCE
How Congress Took the
Message.
ALL INTERESTED IN HAWAII.
The Part Senator Dolph Did Not
Want to Lose.
ALL INTERESTED IN HAWAII.
CROWDS IN THE CORRIDORS.
On the Whole Washington Does Not
Seem Greatly Taken With
the New Congress.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-The assembling
OF the regular session of the ffty-thrd
Congress at noon to-day was not marked
by the bubbub and confusion and the ami
mated scenes common to such occasions.
Usually there is great rush of Washing
tonlans and strangers to the Capitol, bat
only for short time to-day were the COT
ridOrs and galleries of the House and Sem
ate uncOmfortably filled. The members
and Senators were slow to arrive. OF the
California delegation Loud. Hilborn,
Geary, Bowers, Mcguire and Cannon were
in their seats, and Representative Cami-
netti is expected to arrive soon. Both
White and Perkins were absent when the
roll of States was called in the Senate. 1t
is understood that Senator White has been
delayed on account of sickness. but that he
will be here in two or three DAYS. Senator
Perkins will be here next week.
On many desks in the Senate were floral
tributes from admirers of the respective
occupants. President Stevenson had
been remembered with a large basket of
roses. A bunch of roses lay on the desk
Of Dolph. and the doughty champion of
the white metal, Stewart. was the recipi-
ent Of basket of beautiful Marechal
Neils. The galleries were well filled at
first, and touch of color was lent to the
scene by the fright winter toilets of the
ladies present
After the Vice-President's gavel fell the
blind chaplain was led to the desk. and
he delivered an eloquent prayer.
The rolleall showed fifIy-six Senators
present.
After the passage OF the usual resolution
notifying the House or the meeting OF the
Senate and the appointment of a commit
tee to join like committee from the House
to wait on the President and notify him of
the bling of Congress, and one fixing
the time of meeting at ICON each day. the
Senate took a recess of an hour to enable
the committee to wait on the President
AT the expiration of the recess the Senate
recongeDed. The message was received
from the House OF the appointment of a
committee to wait on the President. An
other recess of twenty minutes was taken.
On reassem bling the committee to wait
on the President announced the accom-
plishment of its duty and that the Presi-
dent would at once communicate with the
Senate. Secretary Pruden then stepped
forward and delivered the message TO the
ice-President, who laid it before the Sem
ate, and Secretary Cox at once began its
reading. All present. with few excep-
tions, gave close attention when the read
ing began. Dolph gave attention to his
old file of bills for few moments, but
pricked up his ears as the reading reached
the Hawaiian paragraph. There was, in
fact, general changing about in the
seats of the Senators when that
portion of the document dealing with
Hawaii was approached. Many of
The Senators bad, however. anticipated
the Secretary's reading by turning to their
printed copies. After this there was an
evident falling off in the interest of the
Senators, but their attention was briefly
revived when the paragraph concerning
bonds was reached. When this was passed
the Senators gradually left their seats and
drifted into the cloakroom, so that by the
time the reading of two-thirds was con-
cluded only twenty-five Senators were in
the chamber. and the majority of these
were engaged in conversation among them
selves. The reading was concluded at 8
o'clock, having occupied one hour and a
half
Dolph Immediately rose and said there
had been distri buted in the Senate printed
copies Of what purp0rted to be the mes
sage of the President. in which on page 9
he found part of page 10 devoted to Hawaii.
he did not hear that portion read from the
desk. he desired to know, and thought
the country did also, whether that part
was inadvertently or purposely omitted by
the secretary. or whether the copies which
had been circulated were not true copies
of the message.
The Vice-President responded that that
portion of the message relating to Hawaii
had been inadvertently omitted by the Sec
retary, and directed that it be read. This
was done. and Dolph gave notice that be
would tomorrow address the Senate on
that part of the message. The message
was ordered to lie on the table.
Numerous petitions were presented and
many bills were introduced and referred.
a joint resolution permitting Colonel
Anson Mills. U. S. A., to serve as engineer
on the commission to survey and fix the
boundary between the United States and
Mexico was passed.
A message was received from the house
announcing the deaths of O'Neill and
Lilly. late Representatives from Pennsyl-
vania. Cameron of Pennsylvania offered
resolution expressive Of the sorrow of the
Senate and the appointment of commit
tee to attend the funeral. As an additional
mark of respect at 1858 the Senate ad-
journed.
INTERESTED IN HAWAII.