The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-02
Exciting Scenes Mark the Last
Hours.
SANG PATRIOTIC SONGS
Members of House Also Yelled
and Did Other Things.
Speaker Henderson Delivers a
Closing Address.

since the exciting days of the Spanish
war, Speaker Henderson at $50 O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon declared the house
of representatives adjourned without
day. In doing SO he said that no house
of REPRESENTATIVES since the adoption OF
the constitution had done so much work
as this one.
The audience to which he made his
brief 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 speak
er's appreciative words to the members
thanking them for their co-opera-
ton during the session had touched
responsive chord and they gave him a
remarkable demonstration of their
friendship and good will
While the cheering and applause were
still in progress the members on the
floor began singing MY Country, IT'S OF
Thee" 1t was taken up by the CORE
spondents 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 swell
ing chorus Other patriotic airs follow
ed as the members exchanged farewell,
THE Star Spangled Banner" alternat-
ing with Dixie The speaker came
down from his rostrum, his appearance
on the floor being greeted with For
He's jolly Good Fellow" and rush
of members to grasp his hand. Stand
ing in the area in front of the clerks
desk, he too, joined in the songs, and
there was wild scene when General
Hooker of Mississippi, the old one-armed
the side of the speaker. Together they
sang Dixie
Mr.. Gambler, a Mississippi Democrat.
jumped upon a desk and let out yell
of jubilation that fairly shook the raft
ers. For almost half an hour the jub-
1latfon continued All this time the
spectators remained standing in the gal
leries, watching the animated scene be-
mr. nj mo in "a ci0cr Irac
The adjournment came at the end of
seven and half hours session. dur
ing which much minor business was
transacted. In all 70 bills and resolu-
lions were passed. The general good
feeling in the house had been heighten-
ed by the victory won over the senate
on the item in the naval appropriation
bill for the building of battleship in
q government yard.
The closing hour was occupied with
a spirited debate between Mr.. Cousins
of Iowa and Mr.. Richardson. the Dem
ocrat1c leader, over the report on the
investigation into the charges made by
Captain Christmas concerning the sale
of the Danish West Indies. Mr.. Cousins
ridiculed Mr.. Richardson for bringing
the matter to the attention of congress.
The latter defended his course.
At 5:28 Mr.. Payne, on behalf of the COM
mittee to wait upon the president, re-
ported that the president had no furth-
er communication to make. The speak
cI lHcH dTOSc anu WITH oN1uoncG OIL
much feeling addressed the house as fol-
lowe:
Gentlemen of the House of Represen-
tatives: Many of us met at the begin
ming of this session as friends many of
us at the commencement of this session
met as strangers. I believe that we shall
all part, when the moment for adjourn
ment comes. as friends. The prayer
which I made to this house at the COM
mencement of this congress. that the
house would help to sustain the chair in
enforcing the rules, has never been for
gotten. You have been, each and all Of
You, sustaining forces in aiding me in
the discharge of my duty. For that, my
friends. return my grateful acknowl-
edgments- 1 am proud to say that no
house of representatives since the con =
stitution was adopted has in the same
length Of time done the amount of work
that this house of representatives has
done. You have done your work like
men-earnest and honest as you have
all been in carrying your convictions
SO far as possible into execution, there
has never been an hour when the acri-
mony Of debate left scars in any breast
in this house. That fact has much graf
flied your presiding officer. You have
all been faithful and untiring and in
the 20 years of my service 1 have never
seen SO many friends in the closing
days of session as I now witness.
Now. as we are about to part. I
wish you all a safe return to your
homes, and that you may all come back
l.
And l ask no more than that you may
be as earnest then as you have been
In the session just closed. And now
gentlemen in pursuance of the concur
rent resolution Of the two houses,
declare this session of the F'ifty-seventn
congress adjourned sine die
The gavel fell amid the wild applause
that followed. Before it had subsidized a
group of Republican senators on the
west side of the hall, led by Mr. Lands
of Indiana and Mr.. Hamilton of Michi-
of Thee" Immediately the refrain was
caught up all over the hall and in the
galleries. Then followed the doxology
in which the correspondents in the press
Way Down Upon the Suwanee River, -
and finally Dixie" as the speaker and
General Hooker. the one-arned confed-
crate veteran. embraced warmly.
President Roosevelt, accompanied by
Secretary Moody, Secretary Hitchcock
Secretary Wilson and Postmaster
Payne, went to the capitol in the after
noon in order to facilitate the work OF
congress. In his room in the senate
wing of the capitol the president signed
the Philippine civil government bill. tbs
naval appropriation bill and Other
measures that went through in the clos
ing hours of congress
During a short executive session one
of the senators undertook to take Post
master General Payne inside. under the
belief that member of the cabinet was
entitled to be present, but Mr.. Payne
was escorted out again and informed
that while the president was entitled te
enter the executive sessions the priv
1lege did not extend to his cabinet Dur.
ing a lull in business in the PRESIDENT
room the pages came Il and were pre-
scented to Mr.. Roosevelt Some secured
his signature for their autograph al
buns. Soon after congress adjourned
the president left the capitol.
After session marked by some o
the most heated debates ever heard il
the American congress. the senate ad
journed sine die at $50 o'clock in tn
afternoon During the last hours of tn
session there was a sharp debate Oh
the Philippine question. participated II
by Mr.. Cormack of Tennessee, Mr.