The age-herald., 1898-07-09

the house, who cftIng to a hope that their bills might be passed within the remaining hour of the session, and were in haste to have the Ray-Handy incident closed. ssa
 A vote was taken. The house declined to strike out the speech. A yea and nay vote was called for, and the negative again pre- vailed.
 MT. Cannon was standing across the cen- ter aisles, faced flushed and eyes fixed upon the minority, growing apparently indignant.
 iI caA for tellers," said MT. Handy, and with that the veteran member from 1lli- nods stepped into the adsles.
 You are deliberately obstruoting public business in which the whole country is in- terested''-the spirit of his remarks was lost in the jeers of the minority calls for the regular order and the resulting confsion.
 Mr. Cannon charged up the aisles pour ing out a flood of vigorous denunciation. He had reached a point opposite MT. Bell 0dem. of Texas). Mir. Cannon had called for the ayes and nays, saying it was mafii- feslt that the democrats would call for them. MT. Cannon had repeated his charge of obstruction, when MT. Bell, addressing the republican side, ais it subsequently, de- veloped, declnredi "Fhe Record was false, and you knew it was false when you voted against correcting 1t.'
 The Lie Passed
 "rhat is a le," cried Mir. Cannon, and in an instant the belligerents were strug- gling to reach each other while many others were struggling to control them. The house was upon it's feet. MT. Marsh, republican, of Illinois, seized MT. Cannon and thrust him aside, and when MT. Bell asked Mir. Cannon to 'come outside" and the latter was moving to comply when MT. Lewis, democrat, of Washington took charge of the Illinois member and re- strained him. Meantime the speaker had been DOundinP hard and the Ot-at arms had seized the big silver mace and was moving among the members where the greatest disorder prevailed. Order was restored slowly, and roll call proceeded while the galleries commented upon what they had seen in the course of a visit to Washington.
 The roll call upon MT. Handys motion to strike out resulted-yeas, 50; nays, 106 Later in the session Mr. Cannon explained that MT. Bell had addressed his remarks not to him personally, and therefore he desired to withdraw his offensive state ment
 The house then passed the bill to reim- purse the states for expenses incurred in transporting, feeding, clothing and caring for soldiers in aid of organization of the army.
 The speaker named MT. Henderson, MT. Hopkins and MT. Richardson as com mittee to wait upon the president in com pany with senate committee and an nounce the readiness of congress to ad- journ. MT. Speaker said MT. Henderson, af- ter their return and reporting that the committee had discharged it's duties "the president directs the committe to say he has no furthr communications to make to the house and says he desires to congratu- late this congress upon it's patriotic and faithful work The report was applauded.
 Members Sang America The remainder of the session rassed d without incident. At 2 o'clock when Speaker Reed announced: "This session of this congress is adjourned without day. a great cheer arose and then began the scene which, while similar to the closing scene of previous sessions far surpassed in enthusiasm and manifest good feeling any similar. episode in the memory of the old est member of the house. The occupants of the packed galleries who had risen to go, paused they head a half dozen mem- bers begin singing America" Other members hurriedy crowded around the speakers stand and joined the other sing CTS until within a short time all members present were aiding in swelling the volume of song. Presently a voice in the gallertes joined and 1t was not long until members and spectators were all singing the patriot ic hymn. The scene was a marked trarSi tion from the many partisan demonStra- u1OnS Wn1Cn nae been witnessed Sucn a short time before. Democrats and repub licans were now singing in accord. When the song ceased some member proposed three cheers for the nations president, and the roar of sound that followed came from a united house.
 "A United Conntry''
 Then came north, south, east and west, united country" proposed, and then in turn came cheers for Dewey, Schley, Shafter, Hobson and Sampson and General Wheeler, who is now clinging, though ill, to his command in front of Santiago, was named and the hall resounded with cheers of thrilling strength. Then the singing proceeded. Meantime Sergeant-at-Arms Russell had brought in 200 small American flags, and every member was now waving one. "rhe Star Spangled Banner was sung while flags waved and the galleries cheered. Later followed Yankee Doodle and "Dixie,' the latter perhaps for the first time in the house, joined in by all the members
 The patriotic demonstration continued a half hour and then the members began leaving, saying farewell to colleagues. "Home, Sweet Home," and "Auld Lang Syne" supplanted the patriotic airs and impressed more strongly upon the hearers that another session was ended
 
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