The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-06-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
F,ErY.slxTA CONGRESS.

In the senate, on the 4th, the work OF
the session being practically completed.
the session was more of soci@l luhctioli
than a business session. Nearly TOUR OF
the ten hours consumed was spent IN
executive session. AT the night session
many of the senators appeared IN run
dress, and the galleries were thronBeu
with gaily-attired crowds of spectators
No business of Importance was transact
ed. ..... In the house, the conference report
on the sundry civil appropriation blll WAS
agreed to as to the 5000, 900 appropriation
for the Louisiana Purchase exposition
and as to the item for the Mississippi
river, with amendments Other items IN
dispute were sent back to conference:
The disputed items in the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill were agreed
to. and the bill sent to the president
In the senate, on the 9TH, the session
was given principally to consideration OF
conference reports ana odds ana ENDS or
business preparatory to final ADJOURN
ment. An unseemly and raneorous po-
litical debate between Mr.. Pettigrew Is
D. and Messrs, Hanna 90 and Carter
Is ID was precipitated by statement
by Mr. Bacon tGa) that Cramp, the
sfip.ullder, had contributed &CO.0Jo 70 the
republican campaign fund in lS92 win
TIE understanding that he would be re-
mhul sed h" contracts FOR construction
Of war Shins ......In the house attention
alternated between consideration OF con
ference reports on appropriation DIS
and heated political controversies, the m
CldentS OF the DAY ana nlSHt scsSioHS 70
ing those inseparable from the dying
hours of a session.
In the senate on the 9th, the session,
extending far into the night, was occu-
pied in an Intellectual attempt to reach an
agreement upon the naval appropriation
bill. The hour fixed for final adjournment
was reached and passed without an agree.
ment and the senate finally adjourned
until the It'll at II a. m. ...... In the house
scenes of indescribable confusion and bit
terness marked the discussion of the fall
ure of the conferees on the naval appro-
priation bill to carry out their instruc-
lions, and the speaker took the almost
unprecedented course of appointing new
conferees who were not members of the
naval committee. The debate, at times,
was very bitter.
was devoted chiefly to recessing and So
cial functions while awaiting action by
the house on the naval appropriation bill,
the senate having refused to request an
other conference. Upon receipt of word
that the house had concurred in the sem
ate amendment remaining in controversy,
house resolution providing for final adj
journment was amended, fixing the hour
at five O'Clock, June I, and passed. When
that hour arrived the senate quietly ad-
iourned .....In the house the action OF
the previous day in rejecting the compro-
mise of the cOnterees on the naval bill
was reversed. and the house, by a large
majority, accepted the senate amendment.
AS the closing hour approached a few
members engaged in singing national airs,
being soon joined by the whole house and
later by the galleries. Speaker Henderson
made a graceful farewell speech, ana me
members responded by singing For He's
a Jolly Good Fellow the gavel fell and
the first session of the Fifty-sixth con-
sresS was no more.