The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-07-03
ADJOURNED SINE DIE
Congress Closes a Seven
Months Session.
PRESIDENT SIGNS PHILIPPINE BILL.
Senator's Indulge In ~ Humorous Ne"
bate-rbc House winds tp with
Song and GAod Fellowship.
summary of Appropriations.


summary of Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-Aftcr Il ses-
sion marked by some of the stormiest
debates ever heard in the American
congress the senate adjourned sine die
ut j;30 yesterday afternoon. During
the last hours of the session there was
,ion. participated I'm by Messrs. Car
mack Tcnn.). Spooncr (WisJ, Culber-
son (Tex.), McComas (Md) and Lodge
(Mass).
The conference report on the Philip
pine government bill was adopted with
out very serious opposition.
Just before adjournment the usual
resolutions were adopted, including one
offered by Mr.. Cockrell, the venerable
Democrat of Missouri. cordially thank
ing the president pro tempore, Mr..
Frye, for "the dignihed, impartial and
courteous manner i'm which he had pre-
sided over the deliberations of the SEN
ate"
After the adoption of the resolution
Mn Frye delivered Il feeling response
and then declared the senate adjourned
without day.
Amid scene of enthusiasm that has
not been parallcled since the exciting
and stirring days of the Spanish war
Speaker Henderson Mt $3.50 yesterday
afternoon declared the house of repre-
sentatives adjourned without day. In
..T
rescntatives since the adoption of the
constitution had done as much work as
this one The audience to which he
made his brisf 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 cooperation during the session
had touched n responsive chord, and
they gave him a remarkable demon
stration of their friendship and good
will.
While the cheering and applause
were still in progress the members on
the floor began singing MY Country,
'Tis of Thee" 1t 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 ringing
with the swelling chorus. Other patri-
otic airs followed as the members eX-
changed farewell.
The adjournment came at the end of
a seven and Il half hours session, dur
ing which much minor business was
transacted. In all seventy bills and
resolutions were passed. The general
good feeling in the house had been
heightened by the victory won over the
senate on the item in the naval appro-
priation bill for the building of bat
tleship in government yard.
Just before the senate adjourned
finally Senator Allison chairman of
the committee on appropriations, pre-
sented statement Showing the total
appropriations for the session by bills
as follows:
Agriculture, $5,20S06O; army, SOL
$50, 1856; diplomatic and consular. ST.
957,925; District of Columbia, SS,G47.-
526 Notifications, S7,29S.955; Indians,
so, l43,902; legislative, etc, $25, ,39S, ,3S1;
Military academy, $2,627,324; navy,
$7S,67S,9 ,963; pensions, $139, S42 80: post
office, $13S, ,436, sos; rivers and harbors,
S26, 726442 exclusive of contracts au-
thorized; sundry civil, $50, 125. .35a; de-
ficiencies, S2S,039,911; miscellaneous,
$2,6OO,OOO; isthman canal, 81, 100000;
permanent annual appropriations,
$123,921, ,220; grand total, $500, 1913, ,S37.
The total last year was $730,33S, ,575.
President Roosevelt, accompanied by
Secretaries Hay, Shaw, Moody Hitch.
cock and Wilson and Postmaster Gen
eral Payne, went to the capitol in the
afternoon in order to facilitate the
work of congress, and in his room in
the senate wing of the capitol the pres
ident signed the Philippine civil gov
ernment BILL the naval appropriation
bill and other measures that went
through in the closing hours of con.
gress.