The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-03-09
WINDING UP OF CONGRESS-.
''s'siativo Day Was One OF E.-
e"'n'' Confusion and work-An
All Night session.

lu n" Nlght session.
"AsHISGToN, March 4.-Excitcmont
ooniuson, heavy strain and hard ,,onl'
nave characterized this. the Las, io.ia
io'lve day OF the Fifty-ffth concres.
r "a inc senate At times the confusion
'' was SO great in this usually s,aid md
ue'orous body as to render ,bo
n transaction Of busin S. alro.t
impossible. business that ordi,,..
ny would have the uadivded At
'en''on OF every senator on the aoor
was transacted amid so much ,o..a
'hat 1t was next to impossible to follow
the proceedings.
Towards midnight order was t.;,c
evolved from the seeming cnaos Of tbo
carry part OF the day ana eveninr and
inc prospect was fair that concroso
"ou'o adjourn at noon Saturday with
us absolutely necessary work com.
plcted.
"hen the senate convened at II
O'Clock Friday morning it faced tbo
TASK OF considering two Of the great an.
preparation bills, those for the a,.,nv
ana for supplying the general de-.
hciencies' The former carries app o.
Priations exceeding $50 600. 600 aud t5o
latter about $50, 600, 900. With = dctor-
ininatlon to complete the appronria-
'lon bills the senate began immediate.
" at II o'clock in the morning TO con-
Sider these measures, and az $ o'cloc,,
Friday night the army bill was passed
the deficiency bill having been passed
nearly three hours before.
A conference report on the Ala.l,,
criminal code bill was presented and t
agreed to.
A partial report on the sundrv evil
appropriation bill was agreed TO but S
the inability of the senate con- nferees TO f
secure an agreement on the Hawaiian
cable proposition created heated dis G
'ussion, in the course ofw hich Speaker b
Reed was alluded to in uncompliment-
ary terms ~
The Toledo exposition hill CARVING b
IN appropriation of $500. 600 was naescd y,
without debate.
FRIDAY night when the river and G:
larbor conference report was presents a
q debate upon the recession of tho n,
enate confcrees from the senate is
mendment providing for reservoirs TO OF
'rigate arid lands at the headwaters in
the Missouri river was precipitatcd su
the advocates Of the proposition. tn
n effort was made to recommit the fla
III to the conferees, but it failed after We
limpassioned speech by Senator FRYE. Be
no submitted the report. an
Crowded galleries looked down upon NJ.
e struggling members of the house tel
'lday, as the closing scenes of the last ma
5islativc day of this congress were vic
ing enacted. Step by step the lead bee
in charge of the appropriation bills 7
shed them through the final stages ter
during every lull in the considera- in
n of conference reports members fea
mored for recognition for belated int,
al bills in the vain hope of rescuing r
IN from death on the calendar. int
It times the house was like Bedlam. plo,
md as the speaker would with his dro
'el, II was almost impossible TO pre- r.
Ve order, and to the casual visitor bral
he gallery proceedings on the floor r,
st have been about rs intellirible sion
an exciting day in the wheat pit
I'D be to parish priest. The noise TIL
confusion on the floor punctuated
the constant banging of the al
Ikcr's gavel or backgrounded with Al
droning voice of the clerk irate
lbers facing each other and talking
ie same time, pages scurrying up
down the aisles, all this was utter anu
stracting. But the people in the S'n' :
cries stayed on. and there were a HH
n persons in line in the corridors WIZ
ing for every vacant seat so great "
. a,+,,o.;oot the S
borsos ,,,o,.o :, .o.';.,.,'o by tn
Saturday morning.
house passed the army appropri- lnI
bill with all senate amendments, rr,
he bill now goes TO the president.