Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-03-06
SCENE ii NIGHT SESSION BRILLIANT.
Democrats Continue Fi1ibustering
Tactics In House-Tillman Threat.
/. ems to Defeat Important APP
I ~. .. proprlation Bills.
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tion bills were still undisposed of-the
general deficiency and the naval. The
democratic opposition did not abate
and will be continued until congress
expires'at moon to-day. During the de-
bate. on conference reports, members
on each side got in political speeches,
and several times party passion flared
up. Just before the recess bedlam
broke loose, and there wasan exchange
of high words between two members
on the floor. A personal alteration
seemed imminent in the confusion, but
was averted by the intervention of
friends. The actual business done dur
ing the eight hours of the day session
consisted of the adoption of the con-
ference reports on the immigration,
public building and sundry civil bills,
the reference of the presidents veto
message of Virginia Slain bill to the
committee on war claims, the adoption
of a resolution to correct clerical err
rors in the immigration bill and the
passage of senate bill to authorize
the treasury department to coin
souvenir coins for the Thomas Jeffer.
son Memorial association.
Brilliant Scene at Might.
When the house reconvened at ten
O'Clock p. M, the hall presented a
brilliant appearance. 1t was food.
ed with light from the stained glass
ceiling overhead. The hanging gal.
leries were thronged, and in those
reserved for the families of members
the executive and the diplomatic
corps, were many handsomely.
gowned ladies, come to witness the
closing scenes. On the floor many
OF the members were attired in
evening dress. The knowledge that
the conferees on both the appropri.
alton bills still out had agreed was
q source of general satisfaction
Nevertheless the democrats were as
resolute as ever in their determine.
ton to prosecute their filibuster to
the end, and as soon as Speaker Hen
derson dropped his gavel Mr.. Rich.
ardson. the minority leader, was on
his feet with the point of no quorum.
The chair overruled him, as he re-
peatedly has done in the last few
days, and on the demand of Mr..
Payne the majority leader, the roll
was called on the pending question
the adoption of the conference re.
port on the senate bill to reduce the
population required of reserve cit
les" from $4,000 to $4,000 inhabitants.
The report was adopted, 1919 to 10.
Senate.
Washington, March 4. = The final
defeat of the Aldrich financial bill
was witnessed in the senate Tuesday,
when it was displaced by the Philip
pine tariff bill. Senator Aldrich ex.
planned in detail his measure and said
that small number of men in the
senate had deliberately, with malice
aforethought, murdered it.
One of the features of the session
was the fact that for the first time
In two years Delaware was repre-
sented in the senate. j. Frank AL.
lee and L. Heiser Ball, elected for
the long and short term respectively,
appeared in the senate and were
sworn in by President Pro TEN.
Frye. Besides the two years that
Delaware had been totally unrepre-
sented in the senate, there were two
years previous to that time when
there was vacancy in one of the
seats. Senator Balls term of service
will expire in two years, while Sen
ator Alice has four years to serve.
The senate, for the first time in four
years, has its full membership of 90.
In the course of the debate Tues
day Senator Elkins declared that the
republican party had been false to its
solemn pledges in three successive
platforms with respect to statehood
for Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mex
aco, and he said that it was the first
time that party had been guilty Of
filibustering. He declared that upon
the republican majority rested the
responsibility for the defeat of sew
eral important measures in the sem
ate. The senate at six o'clock took
. recess until eight p. m.
The Night Session.
When the senate reconvened at
eight o'clock Senator Patterson made
the point of no quorum. After
wait of ten minutes q quorum nm
peared. The bill providing for the
appointment of three commissioners
from Porto Rico was taken I'D and
amended, so as to require the CON-
mission to report to congress in
stead of to the president, and as
amended the bill was passed.
The chair appointed the following
senator's to represent the senate at
The dedicatory exercises of the St.
Louis exposition, April 30, and May
! and 2. Messrs, Burnham, Depew,
Penrose. Dolliver, Hansbroueh,
Mitchell, Teller, Berry, Martin and
Foster Na.).
The senate agreed to the confer
ence report on the omnibus public
building bill. A joint resolution was
agreed to transferring all the author
ity and jurisdiction conferred on the
secretary of the treasury by the i'm
migration bill to the secretary Of the
department OF commerce and labor.
Discussion Of the Philippine tariff
bill was then resumed.
Tillmaa Causes q Sensation.
Senator Tillman caused Autter in
the senate at ten o'clock p. M, by an
nonncing his intention to defeat the
naval appropriation bill, and the gem
eral deficiency bill. This determine