The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-02
CONGRESS is ADJOURNED
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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 ap-
| preparation bill for the building Of a
| battleship in a government yard.
The closing hour was occupied with
a spirited debate between Mr.. Cousins,
of Iowa, and Mr.. Richardson, the Dem
| ocratic leader, over the report on the
| investigation into the charges made
| by Capt. Christmas concerning the
| sale of the Danish West Indies.
BIS were passed to appropriate
$4,000 each for bronze equestrian
statues to Count Pulaski and Baron
Steuben, revolutionary heroes, said
statues to be erected in this city; to
promote and retire Naval Cadet Will
| liam Victor Tomb as of the grade of
| ensign; to remove a shoal in North
| river, New York harbor, at a cost not
to exceed $4,000; to grant condemned
cannon to the city of Detroit, Mich;
| for an equestrian statue to Gen. Alex
| Macomb; to grant certain lands to the
! South Platte Canal and Reservoir COM
pany; to pay $5,167 to Anna Eliza Isa-
bella Won Hemert; senate bill for the
| suppression of train robberies.
At 2:20 p. m. Mr.. Payne, chairman
| of the ways and means committee,
| presented the resolution for sine die
| adjournment at $50 this afternoon.
Bills Are Hurried Through.
Several conference reports on be-
lated bills then were hurried through.
| A bill to make Confederate soldiers
| who enlisted in the Union army pre-
vious to Jan. 1, 1855, pensionable,
aroused considerable debate, but was
finally passed, 81 to 10. Messrs Payne,
Cannon and Richardson (Tenn.) were
| named as a committee to inG2EiA the
president that congress was ready to
adjourn.
Mr.. Dalzell, chairman of the special
committee to investigate the facts i'll
connection with the purchase Of the
Danish West Indies then presented it's
report, which was ordered printed and
referred to the house calendar
Mr.. Cousins Qowa) moved to take
up the report.
Pending that motion Mr.. Underwood
(Ala.) moved that the house take a
| recess for one hour 1t was defeated,
80 to 101. Mr.. Cousins then, in humor-
| Gus fashion, described the pretentious
claims of Christmas in the matter of
| the sale of the Danish islands. He de-
MED that any member of congress had
been bribed. He had simply believed
| that the charges were worthy of in
vestigation, and to that belief he still
| adhered.
The testimony, however, had disposed
of the charges. he said. Everybody
was acquitted and the report which
was unanimous so stated. No man re-
| joiced more than he did that no one
had been bribed.
Speaker Henderson's Address.
At 5:2S Mr.. Payne. on behalf of the
committee to wait on the president,
reported that the president had no
further communication TO make. The
speaker then rose, and with evidence
of much feeling addressed the house
as follows:
Gentlemen of the House of Repre-
sentatives: Many of us met at the
beginning of this session as friends,
many of us at the commencement of
this session met as strangers. believe
that we shall all part when the mo-
ment of adjournment comes as
friends. The prayer which 1 made to
this house at the commencement of