The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-04
DEMOCRATS
 UNRELENTING The FilibuSter. Still in
 Force. PROGRESS MADE,H HOWEVER Party Passion Flares Up at
 Intervals. At One Time Bedlam Broke Loose and There Was Danger of an Altercation Between
 Two Members.

Washington, March 3.-To-day was al most repetition of yesterday in the House. Slowly but surely through the operation of ceaseless roll calls the con- ference reports to complete the necessary legislation were ground out, and when the House at o'clock tonight recessed until 10 o'clock tonight only two confer ence reports on appropriation bills were still undisposed of-the general deficiency and the naval. The Democratic opposi- ton did not abate and will be continued until Congress expires at noon March 4. During the debate on conference re- ports members on each side got in politi- cal speeches and several times party passion fared up. Just before the recess bedlam broke loose and there was an ex- change of high words between two mem bers on the floor.
 A personal aitercation seeme& imminent in the confusion but was averted by the intervention of friends.
 The Actual Business.
 The actual business done during the eight hours of the day session consisted of the adoption of the conference reports on the immigration, public building ana sundry civil bills, the reference or the Presidents veto message of the Virginia claim bill to the committee on war cialms' the adoption of a resolution to correct clerical errors in the immigration bill, and the passage of a Senate bill to au- thorize the Treasury Department to coin souvenir coins for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association.
 When tho Hoasa reconyeRed at II o'clock this morning, the prospect was that 1t might remain in continued session until tomorrow at noon. Despite the tact that the session last night was prolonged till midnight there was fairly large at- tendance on the floor and the galleries xyere well filled. As soon as Chairman Henderson called the house to oruer' MT Richardson, the minority leader, attempt ed to make the point of no quorum. but the Speaker recognized MT. Payne 10 de- mand the ayes and noes on the pehdlhs question coming over from last 1lght- the adoption of the conference report on the immigration bul.
 Mir Richardson insisted that his point was good, but the Speaker overruled him and when the Democratic leader appealed from the decision he declined to entertain the anneal on the ground that it was dila- tory. The report was adopted 197 to H.
 The presentation of conference report on a private pension bill was made the occasion of some good natured political chaffing.
 Nr Meiers of Indiana said if the Re nuhlican Party was the good friend of the soldiers it professed to be the House managers should bring in rule to adopt necessary reports on the remaining pen sion bills len bloc"
 The report was adopted, 2ll to 6. MT Canron presented the conference report on the sundry civil bill. He pleaded with the minority to dispense with the read ing of the report in extenso but. MT. Richardson was obdurate and refused to consent A very amusing scene followed.
 An Auctioneer's Voice.
 The voices of the reading clerks who ofliciated yesterday having been worn out bv the Ceaseless calling of the roll, member of the Capitol police force was drafted today. He had at one time been reading clerk in the Maryland House of Delegates and later an auctioneer. He had fog horn voice and in reading fig ures his tones gradually ascended like an auctioneer in the exercise of his pro- Ression, knocking down goods to the highest bidder. The members of the House. as well as the spectators in the galleries. were convused with uncontroll- able laughter. which changed suddenly to hand clapping.
 The new clerk believing that some acknowledgment of this demonstration was due suspended the reading to bow right and left. This grotesque proceeding only increa sed the merriment and brought down a storm of applause. The confusion became so great that Mir. Goldfogle (N. Y) protested against the clerks action as unseemly and the chair was obliged to admonish members to preserve order
 New York Postoftice Site.
 The ten minutes debate allowed on the bill was entirely consumed in the discus sion of the action of the conferees in striking out the appropriation of $2,0OO. NO for New York postofice site. The resolution was adopted-2l1 to Il. The rhair then laid before the House the Presidents veto of the bill flor the al- lOwance of claims of certain citizens of Virginia for damages to their property Incident to the encampment at Manassas and the march from Camp Alger to Thoroughfare Gap. Va, as recommended by a board of officers appointed for the consideration of claims for damages to property by volunteer soldiers during the war with Spain.
 The grounds of the Presidents veto were that many of the claims had al- ready been paid.
 The veto message was referred to the committee on war claims.
 A Senate bill to authorize the Treasury Department to provide souvenir coins for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Associa- lion drew from MT. Grosvenor a protest against any aid for the monument to "The author of the Kentucky resoIu- lions of l79S which helped to bring on the war of the rebellion in which 100000 Americans lost their lives" If monu- ment to Jefferson was to be erected, he said, 1t should be erected by his politi- ral admirers
 Williams Assails Grosvenor.
 MT. Williams Ndiss.) indignantly de- nied that the bill contemplated any aid