Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-04
ITS WORK IS
COMPLETED
Congress Agrees Oh ApprOpria-
tiOn Bills
AD JOURNMENT AT NOON
It Took an All Night Session OF Both
Houses to Agree on the Coll
| ference Reports.
ADJ J0URNMENT AT NOON

Washington, March 4.-As the daylight
broke over the capitol large majority of
the members OF the senate still were in or
about the chamber wherein the last lcgis-
latve day of the 55th congress was draw
ing rapidly to a close. All night the sem
ators had been laboring under a terrific
nervous strain to complete the necessary
legislation in order that congress might
adjourn at noon today with it's decks
comparatively clear.
The anxiety of the early night over the
fate of the river and harbor bill was
partly dispelled at $3.50 this morning. A
determined effort had been made from
! o'clock last night until morning by sew
eral western senators, headed by Mr..
Warren (rep.) OF Wyoming, to secure re-
consldera ton of the conference report on
the river and harbor bill because of the
refusal of the house conferees to consent
that the senate amendment making an
appropriation for the construction of res
ervoirs at the headwaters of the Missouri
| river should remain in the bill.
Finally the report was recommitted to
| the conferees and the senate went into
executive session. At $3.50 a. M, when
| IAiS VI IdISsiCAlOll o. leSlSldllNG business
was resumed Mr.. Frye reported that the
senate conferees had been unable to in
| duce the ,.ouse conferees to reopen the
| agreement already made and the meas
| ure must stand or fall according to the
report made.
| Not until then did Warren give up the
| fight and without further debate the riv-
er and harbor report was agreed to.
| Following this came another bone OF
! contention. 1t was the senate amendment
| to the naval bill reducing the price of
armor plate to $500 and that authorizing
| the construction of an armor plate plant
in case the companies refused the reduc-
ton. Finally the bill went back to con-
| ference.
| The sundry civil bill then came up and
the senate receded from several amend
ments including the Pacific cable project
That disposed of the sundry civil bill.
The final conference report on the Dis
| trict Of Columbia appropriation bill was
agreed to. ".
The senate at 7 o'clock went into exc
cutive session. At s O'Clock the senate re-
sumed business in legislative session
| Soon afterwards Mr.. Hale of Maine pre-
sented the conference report on the gen.
eral deficiency bill and it was agreed tc
without division.
At $50 a. m. Mr. Hale presented the
conference report on the naval bill and
it was submitted to the senate. Hale an.
nounced that the house had refused alb.
solutely to authorize the construction OF
a government armor plate plant. Mr.. Hale
| then explained that the report of the
conference committee fixed the price OF
armor plate for ships authorized by the
bill at $500 ton. The number of battle
ship, armored cruisers and protected
cruisers remain as fixed in the house bill
! The secretary Of the navy is authorized
to contract for armor for the ships pro-
vided for in the naval appropriation bill
Of 1898 al S400 a ton.
The conference report was finally
agreed to without division. This was the
last of the conference agreements on the
appropriation bills to be acted on by the
senate and its acceptance caused a gen
eral sigh of relief. recess until 10:
was ordered.