Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-06-14

Ders OF the national legislature. with
heaus Town and horns locked. wore In
u desperate struggle over the item in
the naVal appropriation bin relating
10 ocean surveys. The final adionrn'
ment OF congress is postponed mill II
is over. Will IT
The proceedings in the housa suri,,
the day were tame and without do
matt sicluent. This vas partly due
~ .ne iact that the firm position taken
~ my house on the IN plate pro-
vision transferred the fight to the door
o' the senate and to the obstinate PC
Iusal OF Mr.. Lentz, an Ohio Demo.
ciat' % permit any unanimous consent
ieglslatlon until the Republican lead
efs agreed TO allow the testimony of
the Occur dAlene investigation to he
printed. Mr.. Lentz held the house nv
the throat all day, and except for
privileged matters things legislative
were practically at a standstill. Rut
last night there was enough excite.
ment to compensate for the dizziness
or the days session. The house 90,
It's dandef up owe the failure of IT'S
coLrerees to abide by their ;nstruc-
tiohs on the ocean survey item. and af-
Ter al exceedingly sensational debate
III WElch Mr.. Cannon. the chairman of
the appropriations committee, made
ON startling disclosures as to the
manner in which Con mander Todd.
the photographer of TIE navy, had
waged his campaign against the stand
taken by the house in favor Of the
coast and geodetic survey doing ocean
survey work. the house rejected the
conference report by an overwhelming
majority, and the speaker took the al
most unprecedented course Of appoint-
ing new conferees IN the part of the
u who are not members Of the
naval committee The debate was one
or n bltterest and most heated of the
session.
The Senate.
Inability to reach an agreement upon
the naval appropriation bin forced the
senate to abandon the adoption Of the
mousse resolution for final adjournment
yesterday. The IN plate question,
Which for five years has been a burn
1g question in congress, upset the SEN
ate leaders and caused their we'll laid
plans to go awry. 1t was a day of
strife and turbulence in the senate.
Early the c%onferees on the naval bill
reported a disagreement and the sen,
ate was told plainly that the house
would not consent to the amendment
providing for an arm0r plate factory
to be operated by the government. 4
COMPROMISE proposition was presented
by Mr.. IenrOse Of Pennsylvania, and
after hours of debate. finally was
adopted by a vote of 80 to 30. The
discussion Of the proposition devel-
oped an unusual bitterness of feeling
and charges Of robbery and political
corruption were hurled about the
chamber with an abandon which. if
they had not fallen from the lips Of
grave senators would be regarded as
reckless. Little worse ever was heard
in the heat of a political campaign.
Three O'Clock, the hour agreed upon
for final adjournment, was passed and
still the senate was held by the armor
question. When the Penr0se propo-
siticn finally was adopted. ii was sup
posed the way was clear, but late last
night another disagreement was re-
ported upon the naval bill, and the
senate took an adjournment until IL
o'clock to-day. The evening session
presented a brilliant scene, the gal
leriesbeing throngcd with a gay and
fashionable audience. All were wen
entertained as Senators Carter OF
Montana. Mason of Illinois. Turner Of
Washington and Money Of Mississippi
kept the senate Oh edge with rafting
political speeches.
Washington. June ~S.-Congress adj
journed sine die at ) o'clock yesterday
afternoon. For the senate it was a
day of waiting. The naval %appropria-
ton bill-the stumbling block to final
adiourument-could not be agreed to
by the conferees of the two houses
and the disagreement was reported to
the senate early in the lay. The re"
port was accepted by the senate, which
refused to request another conference.
although Mr.. Hale expressed the De-
lief that an agreement might be ar
rived at. There was an evident dis
position on the part of the senate to
make trouble if the conferees should
recede from the senate amendment as
to the ocean surveys, n II was
deemed the wiser policy to afford the
house an opportunity again to pass
upon the question. AT 4 O'Clock. after
several recesses had been taken, 1t be-
came known to the senate h ii the
house had ]concurred in the senate
amendments remaining in controversy,
and soon afterward the house resolu-
ton providing for final Adjournment
was passed. an amendment fixing the
hour at ) o'clock, June Z. 1t was not
until 4:40. twenty minutes before the
hour fixed for adjournment, that tue
president pro tempore of the senate
Mr.. FRYE. affixed his signature 10
the naval bill. With some other meas
ures it was hurried to the president,
who was in waiting in his room III the
capitol. and was signed by him a FEW
minutes later. The concluding hour
of the session was purely a soclal
session. No business beyond the adops,
ton of the customary resolution Oh
thanks to the chairman, Mr.. Frye
was accomplished.
The House.