The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-05
HOUSE CLOSED
WITH D0XOLOGY
Some Opposition to Vote of
Thanks to Speaker Henderson
DIVISION WAS DEMANDED
OTHERWISE THE SESSION END
ED PLEASANTLY.

III ASHINGTON. March 4.-The decks
w were clear for the final adjourn
ment mt noon when the house
convened at 10 o'clock this morning
The storm which eliminated at 4
O'Clock this morning when Mr.. Cannon
delivered his scathing arrangement OF
the methods Of the senate during the
discussion OF the conference report on
the general deficiency appropriation bin
had passed and everything promised a
serene and peaceful ending. Although
members had had little more than time
TO go home for baths, fresh linen and
breakfast iu the interim since the ad-
Journment shortly before daylight,
they were back in their places for the
closing ceremonies.
The leaders on both sides were among
the earliest arrivals. As is usual the
scenes in connection with the closing
attracted vast crowds, which besieged
the portals of the house even before the
doors We're opened. The veteran chair
man of the appropriations committee.
Mr.. Cannon. with a red CamatiOn in
ms buttonhole, came into the hall with
his arm around Mr. Dalzel Just as
Speaker Henderson. whose long career
IN congress was 90 end i'm two short
hours, assembled the rOstrum.
The speaker despite the strain of the
last Few hours, looked smiling and Sc
rene as he faced the house. gavel in
hahd- Mr. Richardson, the minority
leader, who has been conducting the
long hlbuster was on his feet smiling
back az the speaker
Filibuster to the End.
The Democratic minority was deter
mined 20 make good their threat made
when Mr. Butler of Missouri was un-
seated last Thursday and flibuster to
the end Of the session. AS soon as the
speakers gavei fell he announced that
no quorum was present and thereupon
Mr. Payne. the majority leader. moved
a call of the house.
The calling of the roll. which seemed
TO visitors lu the galleries TO have
been going on continuously for the past
week. began. The buzz of conversation
DO the galleries. checked momentarflv
by the bang of the speakers gaveI
was resumed. Members on the floor
talked and laughed and the cracked
voice of the reading clerk rose hoarse-
ly above the din. The speaker several
times was compelled 10 admouish the
mouse 90 preserve order so that the
clerk could hear the responses.
AS the rOllcau was concluded a re-
markab bic scene occurred. Spe8k er
yielded the gavel to Mr..
cannon. the incoming speaker. AS the
latter took the chair the members broke
into "a burst of applause i'm which the
galleries Joined. Ii was as much =
compliment 20 the retiring speaker as
,o Mr.. Cannon. The speaker retired
to his room 10 the rear of the hall and
MT. Cannon then announced the mo-
ZION Tor call of the house defeated.
1917.
Resolution Of Thanks.
Amid intense silence Mr.. PAYNE the
majority leader, offered the following
resolution Of thanks to the retiring
speaker:
Resolved. That the thanks of the
house are presented to the Hon. David
B. Henderson, speaker Of the house OF
representatives. for the able. digni6e5
md honorable manner in which he has
presided over its deliberations and per
oFmed the arduOus and important du-
les or the chair during the present
ERIN of congress"
AS the reading was concluded. Mr. /
.ocnrane lDem.. MOI was on his feet 1
demanding recognition. but the chair /
ui-d that Mr. Payne was entitled to /
ne floor. The majority leader faced the |
as be announced that he con-
ldered il a high honor and privilege /
% De- permitted 90 offer this resolution /
.oinlng out that 10 was not the first 4
ime that such a resolution had come 4
rom the majority side He cited the /
of Clay. Polk. Banks and the /
ate Speaker Reed.
As be concluded with "a glowing trib- !
.te 20 Speaker Henderson. the whole i
republican side broke into hearty am /
iause But there was dead silence ON
he Democratic side.
Some Opposition.
When Mr.. Payne demanded the previ-
ms question, and Speaker Pro TEN
annon put the question. there was "A
eeond Of oppressive silence. AN ewes
we're on the Democratic side. From the
ear row Mr, Cochrane Dem. MOI !
rose quickly. and IN a loud voice cried
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