New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-08
CONGRESS ADJOURNS.
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL FINALLY
PASSED.
THE SENATE WINS THE FIGHT OVER SUR
vEYs AND THE SESSION ENDS QUIETLY.
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VEYs AND THE SESSION ENDS QUIETLY.
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Washington June THE first session of the
LVIth Congress ended at , o'clock this after
Mr. Cannon and his colleagues on the
House Appropriations Committee proved
equal to the task they undertook last night of
holding the two branches in deadlock until the
Senate should recede from its amendment in
creasing the appropriation for naval hydro
graphic work from $4,000 to 100000 AS the
Senate had already agreed TO cut the total from
100000 to $4,000, Mr.. Cannon and his asso-
ciates put in the attitude OF demanding
everything and yielding nothing. and their
struggle to hold the House in line for such an
arbitrary and unreasonable policy was in the
nature of things a rather hopeless one. The
Senate felt that it's generosity in abandoning
the contest over armor plate prices had been
misinterpreted by the House. which had re-
Quilted a surrender on item in dispute by
exacting harsher terms than ever on all others.
Mr. Cannon's triumph the conferrees who
had signed the final agreement was taken. there
fore. by the Senate managers an invitation
to fight to a finish in which the House had
unwarrantably assumed the aggressive The
new agents of the lower branch-Messrs. Can
non Moody and Shafroth-encountered a de-
termined resistance at this mornings meeting
of the conferrees, and further total disagree
ment was the only result of the interview
THE SENATE REFUSES TO YIELD.
In the Senate, when Mr.. Hale reported prog
ress, a purpose to make additional conces
sons of any sort to the House so clearly
shown that the Senate managers pointedly de-
cined to ask for a continuance of negotiations
A Joint resolution was also introduced, continu-
ing last years naval appropriations warn
ing to the House that it could choose between
the fair and liberal compromise reached yes
terday afternoon or no new naval bill at this
session.
Facing this growing sentiment of hostility in
the other branch, and weakened in the House it
self by failure to obtain even hope of better
terms than those rejected last night, Mr. Cannon
and his associates had uphill fight before
them retain the fruits of their unexpected vic
tory. The very harshness and violence of the
assault by which the Naval Committees control
of its own measure was wrested from 1t, and
the original conferrees were replaced by three
outside insurgents created after a nights
thought noticeable reaction OF temper Few
conferrees had been pointedly rebuked and
Inundated as had Messrs. Foss, Dayton and
Cummings and the conviction that, after ALL
the verdict of the House their work had been
hasty and unfeeling encouraged many SYM
pathetic members to rally to their support in an
endeavor to vindicate their good faith well
their good judgment
VICTORY FOR THE NAVAL COMMITTEE.
When Mr.. Cannon reported a continued dead
lock- and asked the House to recede, with par
tial qualification. from the demand he had as
sailed the original conferrees for not insisting
on, the Naval Affairs Committee leaders took
open issue with him and moved unconditional
concurrence in the Senate's 100000 survey
appropriation. After a debate, highly personal
but somewhat better tempered than last nights.
in which Mr. Cummings clearly carried off the
donors, the Naval Committees motion was sus-
tanned by standing vote of n to II. A resort
to the ayes and only sweled the majority
under which the ''insurgent" conferrees were
buried. The totals were 11S for concurrence
| and only 96 against. Beaten on the special point
on which they had made their fight. Mr. Cannon
and his associates yielded control of the ap-
preparation BILL and Mr.. Dayton, of the
original managers, then moved and secured a
concurrence in the remaining Senate amend
mentS. This manRuvre disposed of all the items
| in dispute between the two houses and the bill
had only to be engrossed and signed TO go to the
Senate, and then to the President.
MR.. CANNON DECISIVELY DEFEATED.
Mr.. Cannon's defeat this afternoon was there
victory. Yesterday by supporting the House
conferrees, ne could have secured a cut In the
Senates vote for money for naval photographic
work from 100000 to 500 600 He preferred TO
fight them for a further cut to $25 OOO or
$4,000. The awakening impatience of the House
with such rule ruin tactics and the Senates
withdrawal of its concession of $4,000 obliged
him to report total disagreement on the survey
paragraph and the desertion night of
considerable portion Of his allies left him power
less to prevent concurrence in the Senates orig
inal appropriation of 100000. That there is one
time TO fight and another time TO run away
seems never to have entered into the calcua-
tions of the defeated chairman of the Appro-
priations Committee.
The struggle in the House over the two
branches settled down the prospect of a
prompt adjournment. The House resolution fix
ing p. m. Of June the time for
dissolution amended in the Senate so
to extend the session until p. m. Of
June Z. The President had been informed
Of the passage of the Naval Appropria ton
bill, and TO the Capitol about o'clock to
sign it. Recesses We're taken in both branches
while the belated appropriation measure was
being prepared for approval. The tension and
excitement of yesterdays session had vanished :
almost spectators were left In the galleries.
and barely quorum could have been mustered
in either branch when the two presiding officers
announced the session ended Rarely has a Con-
gress dispersed with little sense Of prear-
rangement and fornality.