The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-05
cOVGRESS aDj0URNs
Lawmak akers Quit Work About
Noon Today--Had Been In
Session Sunday.

Washington, March 4.-Congress ad.
journed about noon today.
The first Sunday session Of tho
Fifty-sixth congress was held by the
senate Sunday. 1t will not appear in
The Congressional Record as a ses-
sion Of Sunday. as the senate was
working under the legislative day OF
Saturday, and will continue SO to
work until the session should bo
declared adjourned finally ut noon
today. Sundays session began about
3 o'clock. the senate having been in
recess since about 1890 Saturday
night. The galleries were packed
with people here to attend the inaug.
uratiOn ceremonies. and, by reason of
important business, there was large
attendance of senator's.
After a spirited fight, both In con-
ference and on the noor Of the senate.
the final conference report on the
naval appropriation bill was agreed
to. the senate receding from tho one
contested amendment authorizing the
construction Of three additional Hol-
land submarine torpedo boats. /
A conference report on the general
deficiency bill was agreed to without
comment. During the afternoon and
evening the senate passed large
number of bills, among them being
that to promote the safety Of rail-
way employees.
Senator Pettigrew called attention
of the senate to the fact that bill
had been lost. 1t was the act to pro-
mote the Safety of railroad employees,
the bill which passed Sunday after,
noon. 1t was said that the house
had concurred In the senate amend
ments and the bill had been enrolled
and signed by the speaker and lost
between the houses. Mr.. Pettigrew
denounced 1t as an outrage, and
charged that 1t had been "stolen" or
''lost on purpose"
Mr.. Lodge said he heard the clerk
Of the house announce the house ac-
tion on the bill, but had been unable
to find the bill anywhere. D.
e 0nsmoti0n OF Mr. Pettigrew the sen.
ate adopted a resolution ordering a
re-enrollment, Of the bill and request.
ing the speaker to sign it. J.
The house,, which was still in thu
legislative day of Friday, was In ses.
sion from about to 9 Sunday after.
noon and last evening from about 8
o'clock it worked ON into the night to
dispose of the conference reports
which crowded in upon 1t. The con-
fusion and din of the floor of the
speakers gavel going necessarily to
preserve the semblance of order must
have made the proceedings unintelligi-
bic to them. There was big fight
during the afternoon over the senate
amendment to the sundry civil bill,
which linked together the fate of the
st. Louis. Buffalo and Charleston ex-
position appropriations. Mr.. Cannon.
chairman Of the appropriations com.
mittee, led the fight against them and
defeated a motion to concur. A reso-
luton to appoint special committee
of seven members to visit Porto Rico,
Cuba and the Philippines and report
upon conditions raised the cry Of
"junketing trip" and was debated at
intervals while conference reports
were not before the house.
The house defeated by a vote Of 139
nays to "a yeas the resolution provid.
ing for committee to visit Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines and
report on the conditions there.