The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-08
FIRST SESSION
CONGRESS ENDED
Both Houses Adjourned
Yesterday Afternoon.
PATRIOTISM RAMPANT
Party Passion and Personal Rancor
Give Way to Good Fellowship.
MOST PICTURESQUE SESSION.
The Last Day Was, for the Senate, One
of Waiting President Mckinley
Affxes His Signature to Various
Measures, Iucludin. the
Naval appropriation Bill.
The Closin. Hours,

WASHINGTON, June lin marked con-
trast with the exciting incidents attending
the bitter struggles of the closing hours OF
the session, Speaker Henderson LAID DOWN
his gayel at o'clock this evening at the
conclusion of one Of the most picturesque
sessions 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 pa
trotic outburst that stirred the crowded
galleries to the highest pitch OF enthu-
siaSn.
During the brief recess, taken within
thirty minutes OF the time fixed for the
final adjournment to give the President an
opportunity to afiix his signature TO the
bills that were being rushed 10 him for
approval, a group of MEMBERS, leu py
Messrs Mercer of Nebraska. Bail OF Texas
Fitzgerald Of Massachusetts,, and Iawney
of Minnesota, congregated in the arena 70
the left OF the Speakers roStrum and began
singing patriotic airs. The galleries We're
banked to the doors.
INSPIRING SCENES.
Columbia, Gem OF the Ocean; AUD
| Lang Syne": The Red, White and Blue,
successirely rang out. AS the singing pro-
ceeded members joined the group until
without regard to age or party the entire
membership of the House Joined in the
| chorus. The spectators in the galleries ap-
plauded each song until the strains Oh
pixie" filed the hall. then their un-
bounded enthusiasm broke out IN WIG
cheers. But the enthusiasm Dixie
evoked was not to be compared with the
remarkable demonstration which Followed
| when in a clear, ringing tenor Mr.; fi'z-
gerald Of Massachusetts,, started the na-
tional anthem with ITS inspiring "oitiS,.
! Through the Dawr's Early Light IN an
| instant every man, woman and child IN
! tho galleries were on their feet Joining IN
| the singing. The mighty chorus from the
| thousands of throats reverberated through
| The hall, making the pulses leap and tsle
| blood tingle 1t was d magnificent and
! soul-inspiring spectacle The ladies' kept
! time to the rhyme Of the music with their
| handkerchiefs and the men beat the mea-
sure with their hands. The Speaker paused
as he entered the hall and raised ms voice
| also.
| SONG OF THE ANGELS.
| The excitement produced by the scene
| overcame a white-haired old man in one
| OF the public galleries, and when the scns
f; ceased he jumped up on his seat ana
| shouted: THAT is the song OF the angles
! in Heaven" He was plainly no crank,
the House he was quickly elected.
After Speaker Henderson haG made
! a graceful farewell speech, thanking the
| members for their courtesy, ana dc-
/ claring the House adjourned, the mem
| i1ers testified to his popularity by sing
| in~ For He's a Jolly Good Fellow.
| and the reporters in the newspaper gal
lery celebrated their emancipation from
| their ardorous duties by singing the
| "Doxology-"
| WORK OF THE HOUSE.
The first work Of the House to-day was
| reversal of its action last night IN
I turning down the conferees on the naval
| bill for Welding on the item relating to
! ocean surveys. Over night the sentiment
! Of the House underwent a complete
! change. and to-day the members voted
| by large majority TO accept outright the
| Senate amendment which goes much fur-
! ther than the compromise which the con-
| ferees offered last night me ne" con,
| feeres, led by Mr.. Cannon, who had
| brought in a compromise which they con-
| sidered more satisfactory, were lgno-
| mniously pushed aside. It is a distinct
| victory for the old conferees. Messrs,
Foss, of Illinois; Dayton, Of West Vir-
| ginia, and Cummings, Of New York
| The other feature of the closing day
| was the course of Mr.. LentZ, of OHIO.
| in blocking unanimous consent For
| three days he has objected to bills be-
| cause the majority would not allow the
| testimony in the Couer D'Alene investiSa-
! ton to be printed and he maintained his
| position to the end. His action caused
! many heartaches. He only relented
| when bills, behind which lurked possible
votes in the coming campaign, were
| brought up. On such occasions he grace
| fully side-stepped and allowed them TO go
| through
When the House reconvened ar 10 O'Clock
| this morning it was still Tuesday under
| the executive fiction. AS the confereeS
/ on the naval bill were not ready to re-
/ port, the House adjourned until y O'Clock,
/ when the legislative day of Thursday be-
! gan.
/ After some amusing pleasantries be-
| tween Mr.. Grosvenor and NIr. Sulzer, a
! bill was passed to amend the car coupler
| law. so as to require railways 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 n
| bill to authorize the payment of travel
| pay to enlisted men in the army.
! Mr. Lentz then brought matters to a
| stand-still Some Of the Republicans at
| tempted to circumvent him by getting
/ their friends on the Democratic side to
| offer their bills Mr.. Hay, of Virginia
| asked for the consideration of a bill TO
| make Des Moines, Iowa. SUPPORT of
entry, and as a result got into a warm
| tilt with the Ohioan, who promptly in
/ terposed an objection.
HAY AND LENTz CONTEST
/ Mr.. Hay displayed considerable temper
| and was proceeding to criticise Mr.
! Lentz's course In pers.sting in his atti-
| tude when the latter objected to his
| statement.
II will not receive lecture Tom the
gentleman from Virginia" he, announced,
! ..untiI the Republicans agree 10 the print
] ing of the Couer D,Alene tst.mony, I
/ shall object to all this class of lesisla-
| ton. y
/ 4 few moments afterward. Mr.. Cannon.
on behalf OF the conferees on the naval
bin. formally reported another disagree
i nent Mr. Cannon moved that the House