Connecticut western news., 1895-03-07
THE SESSION ENDS. A RUSH AT THE CLOSE WITH AZ
 PRoPRlATloN BILLS.

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 After Many Long and Exciting Hours oi
 Continuous Session the Flny-third Con.
 cress, With Final Dramatic spasm
 Passes Out of Existence.
 WASHINGTON, March 4.-rhe flfty-third congress Is no moro. The end came today in the usual spectacular and dramatic manner and after both houses had been In continuous session for many hours.
 The story of what was accomplished dur ing the hurly burly of the closing hours follows;
 The unusual attraction of Sunday session of congress in tho pleasant setting of mild. sprnglike weather furnished to Washington holiday in tho modern ao- equation of the word. Within the build ing the jam was so great that it interfercd with business. Tho doorkeopors in the galleries were kept fighting to restrain the people for whom there wns no room. The elevators were loaded to tho limit of their capacity every trip. Two streams of peo- pie olbowed their way from tho house to the senate and from the senate back to tho house, while messengers, pages and mcm- bers plowcd their way at angles through the jam. ....s
 
 which could be accommodated In the Rnl- leries of both tho houses kept up a basble of chatter which, combined with the rush. ing back and forth and clamorlnR of mem- bers like busy day in the pit of stock exchange, almost overwhelmed the rou- tine proceedings and kept the speakers savel hammerinR inoessantly
 Passed Into History.
 After a continuous session of 4s hours, interrupted by an occasional rocosS, tho flags above tho capitol woro lowered, and tho flfty-third congress had passed into history. In the house tho cnd was not marked or marrcd by an unpleasant incl dent All the appropriation bills wora out of tho way whom the house rcconvened at s o'clock in tho morning. and tho timo was dawdlcd away until II o'clock, the only feature being n rather brisk but brief debate on tho results to flow from the pro jcoted monetary conference.
 The usual committee was sent to tho president to inform him that congrosa was ready to adjourn. and the other formAli- tics of the end of congress worn gono through with. The concluding minutes were In the nature of n love feast Tho best feeling prevailed. Tho resolution of thanks to the speaker which usually came from member of the majority was offer cd by Mir. Cannon of Illinois in a worry graceful speech bearnp testimony to the high appreciation in which the presiding officer was held hy the Republican mi nority.
 Mir. Wilson of West Virginia responded in behalf of tho majority, and Mir. Simp- son of Kansas, representing tho Popullste, joined in the expressions of thanks for the courtcsies and klndncsscs extended hy the speaker
 All the kindly sentiments wcre applaud cd, and whon Mir. Crisp himself asccndcd the rostrum to return his thanks and de- liver his parting words the demonstration was terrific.
 At the conclusion of his speech just be- fore declaring tho house adjourned, he ap- | pointed Mir. Culhcrson of Texas Mir. Hit | of Illinois and himself as members of the monetary commission His own appoint- ment was by resolution, As the flfty.third congress came to its end the doxoloay was sung by tho correspondents In thu press gallery.
 The End Tn the Senate.
 At noon exactly the senate closed its final session of tho tifty-third congress amid crowded galleries, conRrntulntory resolutions, n parting word from Pr,si- dent Cleveland and n brief valedictory from the vice president The wonted dig nity of the senate was preserved to the end except for the rush of business incident to tho last hours of session.
 By 10 o'clock the last formnlitics on tho two remaining appropriation bills naval and deficiency-woro concluded and tho measures started to the executive man sion. There ans no disposition to take up new business, md two efforts to con slider questions affecting the Bertng sea were cut off by objections A feature of the last moments of the session was the tumultuous laughter which | greeted tho announcement of Mir Noor- hoes of tho committee to wait on the pros idcnt that the latter rendered his congrat- ulations to congress on the close of their i labors. Vioo President Stevenson closed tho session with few well chosen words, and. as ho stated, tho work of the fifty. third congress passed into history.