Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-05
LEAVING WASHINGTON.
Congressman Are Rapidly De-
 serting the Capital.
PRESIDENT IS GOING A-GUNNTNG

The Lighthouse Tender Violet In Headlines.
 For n Trip Down to the North Carolina
 Sounds-Senate Session Ended With 8
 Laugh of Derision.
 WASHINGTON, March 5.-The hegira of the statesmen is already under way. Cab, inet officers, senators and representatives, having made their plans in advance, arc rapidly getting away from the city today, and before tomorrow night the official population will be pereeptibly decreased.
 The lighthouse tender Violet, in which the president and party will take their ducking trip to the sounds of North Caro- lima, reached here from Baltimore and was made fast at private wharf at the foot of Seventh street. When questioned as to its mission in Potomac waters, the officers were reticent, but it is believed that the president, Dr. O'Rcilly. his physician. and two or three friends will begin their trip sometime today. It is thought that the party will be absent at least ten days or two weeks.
 Secretary Carlisle will not go with the president, but as soon as he can close up some important departmental matters will take trip to his homo in Kentucky, where he has a brother who is ill.
 Pleasant Ending.
 After a continuous session of 4S hours, interrupted by an occasional recess, the flags above the capitol were lowered, and the fifty third congress had passed into history. In the house the end was not marked or marred by an unpleasant incl dent. All the appropriation bills were out of the way when the house reconvenel at o'clock in the morning and the time was dawdled away until II o'clock, the only feature being n rather brisk but brief debate on the results to flow from the pro- jected monetary conference.
 The usual committee was sent to the president to inform him that congress was ready to adjourn, and the other formali- ties of the end of congress wore gone through with. The concluding minutes were in the nature of a love feast. The best fcoling prevailed. The resolution of thanks to the speaker. which usually came from a member of the majority, was offer ed by Mir. Cannon of Illinois in a very graceful speech bearing testimony to the high appreciation in which the presiding officer was held by the Republican mi nOrity.
 Mir. Wilson of West Virginia responded in behalf of the majority, and Mir. Simp- son of Kansas representing the Populists, joined in the expressions of thanks for the courtcSicS and kindncssos extended by the speaker.
 All the kindly sentiments were applaud cd, and when MT. Crisp himself nsccnded the rostrum to return his thanks and de liver his parting words the demonstration was.tcrriflc.
 At the conclusion of his speech. just be- foro declaring the house adjourned, he ap- pointed Mir. Culbcrson of Texas, Mir. Hit of Illinois and himself as members of the monetary commission. His own appoint- ment was by resolution. As the fifty third congress came t0 its end the dnxology was sung by the correspondents in the press gallery.
 The End In the Senate.
 At noon exactly the senate closed its final session of the fifty third congrCss amid crowded galleries, cOngratulatory resolutions parting word from Prcsi- dent Cleveland and a brief valedictory from the vice president. Tho wunted dig nifty of the senate was preserved to the end except for the rush of business Incident to the last hours of a session.
 The senators wcrc at work by o'clock after having remained in the chamber un- til a. m. They clearly showed tho ia tigue of tho long session, lasting from Saturday noon, and their ranks wcre too thin up to II o'clock for the transaction of anything beyond formal business By that time thcre were flow vacant seats on the floor of tho senate and tho galleries were literally packed, the crowds filling the senato pushing into the aislcs and ovcrllowing in long lines down tho cor. riders and stairways. Many members of the diplomatic corps occupied the gallcry reserved for them.
 By 10 o'clock the last formalities on the two remaining appropriation bills naval and dcficioncy-wcrc concluded and the measures started to the executive man sion. There was no disposition to take up new business, and two efforts to con, slider questions affecting the Bering sea were cut off by objections.
 A feature of the last moments of the session was Inc tumultuous laughter which greeted the announcement of MT. Noor, hees of the committee to wait on the pres. ident that the la:tcr rendered his congrat. ulations to congress on tho close of thoil labors. Vice PrcSident Stevenson closed the session with few well chosen words, and, as he stated, the work of the fifty. third congress passed into history.