The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
SCENES OF ENTHUSIASM
Dixie" and the "Star Spangled Ban
ner" Made the Chamber Ring.
.sENATf AMENDMENT ON OCEAN sERyEYS
The House Changes Front and Accepts It. Mr.,
SuIzer Kicks vainIy Al anst Adjourn
ment Without Senatorial Acton
on the Antitrust Bill.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated PresS.)
Washington June TN marked con-
trast with the exciting incidents attend
ing the bitter struggles of the closing
hours of the session, Speaker Henderson
laid down his gavel at o'clock this
afternoon at the conclusion of one of the
most picturesque scenes which has ever
occurred in the Hall of Representatives.
Party passion and personal rancor, which
have brought the House to the brink OF
actual riot several times during the last
forty eight hours, gave way in the closing
half hour to good fellowship which found
vent in a patriotic outburst that stirred
the crowded galleries to the highest pitch
of enthusiasm. During a BRIEF recess
taken within so minutes OF the time
fixed for final adjournment to give the
President an opportunity to affix his sig
4 nature to the bills that were being rush
ed to him for approval a group of men,
I bers led by Messrs. Mercer, of Nebraska;
- Ball. of Texas; Fitzgerald, of Massachu-
sets, and Tawney, of Minnesota, con-
gregated in the arena to the left of the
Speakers rostrum and began singing
patriotic airs. The galleries were bank
ed to the doors. Columbia, Gem of the
Ocean," 'Aud Lang Syne," the Red
White and Blue" successfully rang out
AS the singing proceeded members Joined
the groups until without regard to age or
party the entire membership of the
House joined in the choruses. The spec
tators in the galleries applauded each
song until the strains of Dixie hlleu
the hail. Then their unbounded enthu-
siasm broke out in wild cheers. But the
enthusiasm Dixie evoked was not to be
compared with the remarkable demon
stration which followed, when, in clear
ringing tenor Mr.. Fitzgerald, OF Massa-
chusetts, started the National Anthem
with the inspiring words, Through the
dawn's early light" In an instant every
man. woman and child in the galleries
were on their feet joining in the singing.
The mighty chorus from thousands Of
threats reverberated through the hall max
ing the pulses leap and the blood Jingle.
1t was magnificent and soul inspiring
spectacle The ladies kept time to the
RHYTHM of the music with their handker-
chiefs and the men beat the measure
with their hands. The Speaker, paused
as he entered the hall and raised his
the scene overcame a white haired old
man in one of the public galleries, and
when the song ceased he jumped upon
his seat and shouted: THAT is the song
of the angels in Heaven He was plain
Iy crank. but as he showed a DISPOSE
ton to harangue the House he was
quickly elected. After Speaker Hender-
son had made a graceful and farewell
speech thanking the members for their
courtesy and had declared the House ad-
iourned. the members of the House testi-
fled to his popularity by singing For he
is a JULY Good Fellow" and the news
paper correspondents in the press gal
lery celebrated their emancipation from
the burdens of Congress by singing the
''Doxology."
When the House re-convened at 10
o'clock this morning it was still Tuesday
under the legislative fiction. AS the con-
ferees on the Naval Bill were not ready
to report the House adjourned until II
O'Clock when the legislative day or
Thursday began. After some amusing
pleasantries between Mr.. Grosvenor and
Mr. SulZer bill was passed to amend
the car coupler law so as to require rail-
roads to report monthly under oath to
the Interstate Commerce Commission all
accidents to their employees, and to make
reports as to all collisions between trains
also a bill to authorize the payment of
travel pay to enlisted men in the army.
Mr.. Lentz then brought matters to a
standstll. Some of the Republicans at
tempted to circumvent him by getting
their friends on the Democratic side to
offer their bills. Mr.. Hay (Va) asked
for the consideration of bill to make
Des Moines, Iowa, a SUPPORT of entry,
and as a result got into warm tilt with
the Ohioan who promptly interposed an
objection. Mr.. Hay displayed considera-
BILE temper and was proceeding to crti-
else Mr.. Lentz' course in persisting in
his attitude when the latter objected to
his statement.
II will not receive a lecture from the
gentleman from Virginia. he announced.
Until the Republicans agree to the print
ing of the Occur d'Alene testimony
shall object to all this class of legisla-
ton"
A few moments afterward Mr.. Cannon,
on behalf of the conferees on the Naval
Appropriation Bill formally reported
another disagreement. Mr.. Cannon
moved that the House recede and concur
in the Senate amendment with an amend
ment which struck out the word 'Hy-
geographic and provided for ocean sur
veys, including the waters of Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines, except the
coasts thereof
Mr.. Cannon said the proposed amend
ment was in harmony with the instruc-
lions given by the House a week ago not
to agree to any surveys for the coasts
of the lakes, the seaboards or the islands
of our new possessions. This amendment
would confne the naval surveys to the
deep water of the ocean.
Mr.. Dayton CIV. Va.( who was one of the
superseded conferees moved to recede to
concur in the Senate amendment in or
der to bring the question squarely before
the House. This motion took precedence
over that of Mr. Cannon.
Mr.. Dayton's motion to recede and con-