The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-07-04
Held LAST Session
Congress Adjourned Tuesday AT
ternoon at $50.
LIVELY SCENES AT CLOSING
Stormy Debate on the Philippine Cues.
ton Ended the Session in Senate
House Closed by Singing Patriotic
Songs.

Washington, July 2.-After a session
marked by some of the stormiest do
bates ever heard in the American con
gress, the senate adjourned sine die a
$3.50 Tuesday Afternoon.
The conference report on the Phil
ippine government bill was adopted
without very serious opposition, and
then when the decks of the senate
were cleared for adjournment, Mr.. Car
mack called up his resolution provid
ing for continuance of the investi
cation of the Philippine commission
and for visit to the Philippine islands
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 deliv.
cred a scathing denunciation of the
minority Of the Philippine commits.
sion for what, he declared, was an at.
tack upon the American army.
Mr.. Carmack denied that any attack
had been made upon the army and de.
clared that any fool could charge such
a calumny and any PARROT could be
taught to repeat it. The resolution
was referred to a committee, thus eff.
fectually killing it.
Amid a scene of enthusiasm that
has not been paralleled since the ex.
citing and stirring days of the Spanish
war, Speaker Henderson at $3.50 Tues
day 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 as 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 speakers ap-
preciative words to the members in
thanking them for their cooperation
during the session had touched a re
sponsive chord, and they gave him
remarkable demonstration Of their
friendship and good will
While the cheering and applause
was still in progress, the members on
the floor began singing my Country,
IT'S of Thee" 1t was taken up by the
correspondents in the press gallery
over the speakers chair. and by the
spectators in the surrounding CALLER
les and soon the vast hall was ringing
with the swelling cheers. Other pa
triotic airs followed as the members
exchanged farewell, THE Star Span
gled Banner" alternating with Dixie
The speaker came down from his
rostrum, his appearance on the floor
being greeted with For He's Jolly
Good Fellow" and a perfect rush Of
members to grasp his hand. Standing
in the area in front Of the clerks Gesk,
he too joined in the songs, and there
was wild scene when General Hook
er of Mississippi, the old one-armed
confederate veteran, took his place by
the side of the speaker, and together
they sang pixie" Mr.. Gambler, a
Mississippi Democrat, jumped upon
a desk and let out a yell of jubilation
that fairly shook the rafters. For al
most half an hour the jubilation con
tinued All this time the spectators
remained standing in the galleries
watching the animated scene below
and joining in the singing.
The adjournment came at the end
of a seven and a half hours session.
during which much minor business
was transacted. In ALL seventy bills
and resolutions were passed.