Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-03-04
TODAY CONGRESS
ADJOURNED
Interesting Scenes Before
the Close Of the Session
Were Viewed by Many
Visitors.
THIRTEEN SENATORS OUT
They Will be Missed in Senator
ial Halls After This. Dem
oorats Keep Up Their 0bstruc-
ton Tactics to the Last
Night Sessions of Both Houses.
SENATE.

Night Sessions OF Both Houses
SENATE.
Washington d. c., March 4.-The ses-
sion of the senate today was interest
ing not alone by official proceedings on
the floor of the chamber incident to the
last day of a congress, but by many oc-
currences which were purely social in
their character due to the fact that
the day marked the close of the careers
in the senate of the thirty senators
whose terms expire when the presiding
officers gavel fell at noon Thirteen
failed to secure reelection either
through defeat or through their own
refusals to enter the contests in the va
rious states. Included In the number of
those whose official presence in the
chamber will no longer be noted, are
six Republicans and seven Democrats,
but of the Republicans, Senator Jones
of Nevada and Senator Wellington,
have in recent years each supported for
time the national candidates of the
opposing party. Two other senators,
Deboe and Pritchard are southern Re-
bpulicans and are both succeeded by
Democrats. The remaining two Repub-
licans are Senators Mason and Simon.
Of the seven retiring Democrats, Har-
ris, Turner and Heitfeld were elected
as Populists and all are succeeded by
Republicans. Senator McLaurin was
elected as a Democrat and while still
classed as such has acted independents
ly during the greater part Of his term.
The other three senators, Vest, Jones of
Arkansas, and Rawlins, from first to
| the last have been in the Democratic
ranks and Jones and Vest have risen
to places of conspicuous leadership.
The senate was called to order at 10
o'clock today for the last sitting of the
57th congress, but business did not be-
gin until some time later. The delay
was due to the absence of a quorum
and to the fact that Mr.. Cockrell insis-
ted upon the presence of the necessary
number before taking up the work Of
as usual or the minute in ascending
to the seat of the presiding officer, but
only about dozen senators faced him.
The countenance of most Of them bore
evidence of the two prolonged sessions
of Monday and Tuesday, but the indi-
cations of fatigue soon vanished and
business proceeded as smoothly as 1t
would have done if the senate had ad-
journed at 6 o'clock yesterday instead
of 2 o'clock this morning. It was no.
ticeable too that senators who have
been most busily and most continuous
ly occupied in the closing days, Of the
session, were among the first to res
pond to their names. The attendance in
the galleries was also comparatively
small. The crowd increased gradually,
however, so that by the time a quorum
was secured on the floor the audience
was respectable in dimensions and APP
parently sufficiently wide awake to
give due attention to the proceedings.
Mr.. Allison, chairman of the commit
tee on appropriations, made state
ment in the senate regarding the
amount of money appropriated by the
present congress as compared with the
appropriations of the seth congress-
The total appropriations for the pres
ent congress- he stated, was $1,554, 1OS,-
SIS as compared with $1,440, ,4S9,4 ,43S for
the seth congress-.
Mr.. Bailey of Texas, called up a bill
amending the rivers and harbors act
SO as to provide that the s125,000 here
tofore appropriated for certain river
and harbor improvements in Texas
shall be used for the construction OF
channel in Sabine Lake, Tex. On yea
and nay vote demanded by Mr.. Mason,
the senate agreed to take the bill up,
Al to 9. The effect of the vote was to
displace the Philippine tariff bill. 1t
was then temporarily laid and Mr.. Hoar
spoke on the Philippine bill. The bill
had been talked to death he said. This
was not in criticism of senators who
think that in the closing hours Of the
session this remedy shall not be dealt
With in an hour. The point he made he
said, was that the senate, the executive,
the house of representatives and the
public are not fit to govern the desti-
MES of a people 5000 miles away who
have no voice in the government.
Acting upon resolution, President
pro tenn Frye appointed Messrs. ALI
son and Jones of Arkansas, commit
tee to meet similar committee from
the house and notify the president that
congress was ready to adjourn. Mr.
Mason of Illinois, took the floor and
discussed the statehood bill and the
Panama canal treaty. Mr.. Bailey Of
Texas, interrupted and said 1t was ap-
parent that Mason's object was to tall
the Sabine Lake bill to death and he
would relieve him of the necessity Of
making this kind of valedictory. Thii
1 Mr.. Mason denied. He said he had
never enlisted under the banner Of All
clustering and he resented the charg'