Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-08

CdplUdi-LHe HTSC time ne mas ever VS.
tied it in an executive capacity, and
stations himself in the room in the
senate end prepared for that purpose.
known as the Presidents room. Here
he signs bills as fast as they have
been approved by the speaker and
president of the senate. He comes to
the capitol simply to facilitate bust
ness.
A Few More Bouquets Thrown.
/. The last bill has been signed and the
red tape has all been tied upon each
piece of sheepskin. Nothing more re-
mains to be done The speaker ap-
points q committee to advise the SEN
ate that the house having completed
it's work is ready to adjourn. The
president of the senate appoints SINH
lar committee. The committees pass
under the dome upon their errands of
notification. The duty is officially per-
formed and the last moment is at
hand. The president of the senate and
the speaker stand in their places and
give expression to their sense of ap-
probation for support and confidence
lreposed iii them. The minority lead
ers rise and throw bouquets at the pre-
| have done, how impartially they have
OBLIGATED during the protracted DELHI
| erations, what good fellows they both
are and that it has been good to be
there. Then the president of the SEN
ate and the speaker express their graf
itude for these marks and evidences of
approval, wish every member God
lispeed aud the hammer falls.
Great Enthusiasm Follows.
| Then follows a scene of wild enthu-
siasm. The Star Spangled Banner,
My County TITS of Thee, and various
tunes are sung with great fervor;
there is a general grasping of hands,
whispering in ears. occasionally tears
| and moist eyes, smiles, good wishes,
i promises to come again and the great
mass scatters for five months vaca.
| ton.
The Final Scene.
| 1t is a great scene this final adjourn.
ment. No brush can depict it, because
a picture cannot portray atcion. No
pen can write of it; type is too cold
and expressionless; no monograph
can record it, because the latter pre-
sents nothing to the vision. 1t cannot
| be preserved except in memory. Only
ears and eyes can convey the swiftly
! changing scenes and incidents of adj
| iournment day to the human mind. 1t
is worth coming miles TO see. 1t is
the convergfng point; the sum-total in
results of months of argument and de,
liberation. Bills carrying appropria-
tons of hundreds of millions of dollars
are finally passed, approved and
evolved into organic law.
No Place Like Iowa.
Senator Dolliver, Mrs. Fairbanks
and myself would be delighted to have
you and Mrs. Dolliver make us leis-
urely visit at Indianapolis this sum
| mer; our doors will be wide open and
we will do our best to make things en-
| joyable.'
Thus quoth Senator Fairbanks, as
he met in cordial greeting the junior
| senator from Iowa in the senate smok-
| ing room.
Senator, I appreciate keenly your
i generous invitation and all the good
/ times it suggests, but to tell you the
A truth my face is set downward. There
! is no place that at this moment holds
a candle to my humble home in Iowa
and no other door is sufficiently hos
I pitable to have the slightest attraction
/ for me.
Thus quoth Senator Dolliver, in re
ply.
You have spoken exactly after my
own heart" observed Senator Fair
banks, with enthusiasm, lets shake
on that
And they shook.
Washington, July 5.
The Bailey-Beveridge embroglio has
passed into history, but it still remains
fruitful source of discussion in Wash
ington.
Was Unexpected.
Nothing could have been less ex-
pected than the denoument in the
senate chamber that evening l hap
pened to be upon the senate floor very
near the senators involved during the
oratorical passage of arms which led
up to the assault. There was moth.
ing in the situation up to the very mo-
ment of attack to suggest the employ
ment of brute force. The very fact
that Bailey found it necessary, or
thought he did, to throw his $50
pounds against the 125 pounds of Bev-
eridse is calculated to impress the dis
interested observer with the conviction
that Beveridge had worsted him in the
mental arena.
Shot at the Senate.
The entire episode illustrates the
deliberative feature and overworked
claim of the senate that it is the main
cog in the legislative machine. The
day before adjournment had arrived.
A hundred or more measures of merit
and urgency had been laid on the shelf
because there was not time to take
them up and discuss them according
to the "deliberative" standard of the
senate. There appears to have been
time, however, for the deliberative