Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-04
BEDLAlM IN THE HOUSE..
Hot Words Exchanged and Blows
 Threatened.

day was almost repetition of Monday in the house. Slowly but surely through the operation of ceaseless roll calls the conference reports to complete the nee essary legislation were ground out, and when the house at [ o'clock recessed until 10 o'clock only two conference re ports on appropriation bills were still undisposed of, the general deficiency and the naval. The Democratic oppost- ton did not abate and will be contin- ued until congress expires at noon to. day.
 During the debate on conference re- ports members on each side got in po- litical speeches, and several times par ty passion fared up. Just before the recess bedlam broke loose, and there was an exchange of high words be- tween two members on the floor. personal altercation seemed imminent in the confusion, but was avoided by the intervention of friends.
 The actual business done during the eight hours of the day session consisted in the adoption of the conference re, ports on the immigration, public build- ing and sundry civil bills, the refer- ence of the presidents veto message of Virginia claim bill to the committee on war claims, the adoption of reso- lution to correct clerical errors in the immigration bill and the passage of q senate bill to authorize the treasury department to coin souvenir coins for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial associ- ation.
 rae final defeat of the Aldrich fnan- cial bill was witnessed in the senate when it was displaced by the Philip pine tariff bill. MT. Alddch explained in detail his measure and said that small number of men in the senate had deliberately, with malice aforethought, murdered 1t,
 One of the features of the session was the fact that for the first time in two years Delaware was represented in the senate. J. Frank Alice and l.. Heisler Ball, elected for the long and short terms respectively, appeared in the senate and were sworn in by Pres ident Pro Tenn. Frye. Besides the two years that Delaware had been totally unrepresented in the senate there were two years previous to that time when there was a vacancy in one of the seats. MT. Balls term of service will expire two years hence, while MT. Al- lee has four years to serve. The sens ate for the first time in four years has its full membership of ninety. In the course of the debate MT. El- kins declared that the Republican par ty had been false to its solemn pledges in three successive platforms with re- gpect to statehood for Arizona, Okla homa and New Mexico, and he said that it was the first time that party had been guilty of filibustering. He declared that upon the Republican ma jority rested the responsibility for the defeat of several important measures in the senate. The senate at 6 o'clock took recess until o'clock.
 The conferees of the two houses on the naval appropriation bill reached an agreement at 10 o'clock last night. The senate surrendered on the principal item of disagreement the amendment relating to the increase of the navy. | The provision as agreed upon provides for three battleships of 160O0 tons dis placement and two battleships of 13.. 900 tons displacement and entirely
 
 eliminates the provision for cruisers. Senator TiIlman caused fiutter in the senate late last night by announc- ing his intention to defeat the naval appropriation bill and the general defi- ciency bill. This determination was the result of an announcement from the conference room on the general defi- ciency bill to the effect that the house conferees had refused to accept the senate amendment providing for the payment of the South Carolina state claims of $47,245. The senator had a stack of books beside his desk almost as high as the desk, while on the desk
 was a volume of Byron's poems open at the svision of Judgment"
 Ut is just claim and must go il" l" he said, ''or I will defeat both the re- maining bills and force an extra ses- sion of both houses of congress. I can talk until 12 o'clock tomorrow, and that is all that is necessary for the accom- nlishment of my purpose"