Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-07-02
Philippine Question is Called Up and Warm
Words Are Passed.
MARKED ENTHUSIASM IN THE HOUSE
National Hymn is Started and the Galleries
Ring with Applause.
YELLs COME FROM HUNDRED THNoATS
peneraI Hooker and Speaker stand
side by side and Alternate
"Dixie" with "staE spangIed
Banner"

WASHINGTON, July i.--After a session
marked by some Of the stormiest debates
ever held In the American congress-, the
senate adjourned sine die today. During
the last hours of the session there was
tart debate on the Philippine question,
participated IN by Messrs. Carmack OF
Tsnnesses, spooner Of Wisconsin. Culber-
son OF Texas, McCumber Of Maryland and
Lodge Of Massac chusetts. The conference
report on the Philippine government bill
was adopted without serious opposition
and theni when the decks Of the senate
were cleared for adjournment, Mr. Car
mack called up his resolution providing for
a continuance Of the investigation of the
Philippines By the committee during the
present summer. This started the trouble
and for more than an hour a battle OF
words was waged. Mr.. Spooner delivered
n scathing denunciation Of the minority
Of the Philippine committee for what he
declared was an attack on the American
army. Mr.. Carmack denied that any at
tack had been made upon the army and
declared that any fool could charge such
calumny and any parrot could be taught
to repeat II. The resolution was referred
10 q committee, thus effectually killing 1t.
Just before adjournment the usual res
olutions were adopted, including one Of
fered by Mr.. Cockrell, the venerable dem
ocrat Of Missouri. cordially thanking Pres
ident pro tenn Frye for "the dignihed,
impartial and courteous manner in which
he had presided over the deliberations OF
the senate"
After the adoption OF the resolution Mr.
Frye delivered a feeling response and then
declared the senate adjourned without day.
Stirring Times in House.
Amid scenes Of enthusiasm that has not
been paralleled since the exciting and stir
ring days of the Spanish. war. Speaker
Henderson at $3.50 this afternoon declared
the house. Of representatives adjourned
without day.
In doing so he declared that no house Of
Representatives since the adoption of the
s eonstitution had done as much work as
this one. The audience to which he made
his briet address was a brilliant one. The
galleries were banked to the doors and
almost two-thirds of the members were
in their seats on the floor.
The speakers appreciative words to the
members In thanking them for their CO.
operation during the session had touched
q responsive chord and they gave him re-
markable demonstration of their friendship
aud good will While the cheering and ap-
plause were still in progress the members
on the floor began singing my Country
l'Tis OF Thee"
II was taken up by the correspondents In
The Press gallery over the speakers chair
and by the spectators in the surrounding
galleries and soon the vast hall was ring
ing with the swelling chorus.
other patriotic airs followed as the mem
bers exchanged farewell. The Star Span
gled Banner alternating with Dixie"
The saker came down from his roetrum
bis appearance on the floor being greeted
with For He's jolly Good Fellow and
Q perfect rush of members to grasp his
hand. Standing in the area in front of the
clerks desk, he, too, Joined In the songs
and there was a wild scene when Genera
Hooker OF Mississippi. the old one-aTmet
confederate veteran. took his place by the
side Of the speaker, and together they sans
"Dixie."
Mr. Gambler a Mississippi democrat
Jumped upon a desk and let out a yell o
tubiiation that fairly shook the rafters
For almost half an hour the JubilatioI
continued ALI this time the spectator
remained standing In the galleries. watch
ing the animated scene below and joining
in the singing. The adjournment came a
the end Of a seven and a half hours ses
sion. during which much minor business
was transacted. In all seventy bills an'
resolutions we're passed The general goo'
feeling In the house had been heightened
by the victory won over the senate on tn
item in the naval appropriation bill 70
the building Of a battleship in a govern
ment yard.
The closing hour was occupied with
spirited debate between Mr.. Cousins o
Iowa and MIR. Richardson, the democrati
leader, over the report on the investiga
tion into the charges made by Captai
Christmas concerning the sale OF the Dan
ish West Indies. Mr., Cousins ridicule
Mr.. Richardson for bringing the matter
the attention OF congress. The latter de
Tended his course.