The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-04
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Proceedings of the House Marked by
Democratic Obstructson

froceeuln8s Oh the house Marked by
Democratic Obstruction.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-To-day was
almost 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 conference re-
ports on appropriation bills were still un-
disposed of-the general deficiency and the
naval The Democratic opposition did not
abate, and will be continued to the close.
During the debate on conference reports
the members got in political speeches, and
several times party passion flared up. Just
before the recess bedlam broke loose, and
there was an exchange of high words be-
tween two members on the floor per-
sonal alteration seemed imminent in the
CONFUSION, but was averted by the inter-
vention of friends.
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 and
sundry civil bills, the reference of the
claim bill to the committee on war claims
the adoption of a resolution to correct cler-
ical errors in the immigration bill. and
the passage of Senate bin to authorize the
coins for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Association.
Early in the day the presentation of a
conference report on private pension bill
was made the occasion for some good
natured political chatting. Mr.. Miers, of
Indiana, said If the Republican party was
the good friend OF the soldiers Ii professed
10 De the House managers would bring in
rule to adopt conference reports on the
remaining pension bills Zen bloc"
AS GOOD AS A SHOW.
When Mr.. Cannon presented the confer
ence report on the sundry civil bill he
pleaded with the minority to dispense with
the reading of the report in extenso. but
Mr.. Richardson was obdurate and refused
consent. A very amusing scene followed.
The voices of the reading clerks who off,
ciated yesterday having been worn out by
the ceaseless calling of the roll, a member
of IL Capitol police force was drafted to-
day. He had at one time been a reading
clerk of the Maryland House of Delegates
and later an auctioneer. He had foghorn
voice, and in reading figures his tones grad
ually ascended like an auctiOneer in the ex
ercise of his profession, knocking down
goods to the highest bidder. The members
of the House, as well as the spectators in
the galleries, were convulsed with uncon-
trollable laughter, which changed suddenly
to hand-capping. The new clerk, believing
that some acknowledgment of this dem
OnStrdtlOn was uut, SuSpellueO the Tedulng
to bow right and left. This grotesque pro-
ceeding only increased the merriment and
brought down a storm OF applause. The
confusion became so great that Mr.. Gold
fogle, of New York, protested against the
clerks action unseemly, and the chair
was obliged to admonish members to pre-
serve order.
A bill was passed under suspension of the
rules TO grant right of way through the
Vancouver barracks reservation to the
Vancouver & Yakima Railroad. The forty
minutes debate allowed on this bill took
wide range. Mr.. Gaines, of Tennessee,
again discussed the subject of Whitehouse
furniture Mr.. Little. of Arkansas, ar
raigned the Republican party for its hy-
pocrisy on the trust question. Before Con-
gress convened he said the party was
split into. factions. and the leaders were
fighting like mad dogs But now, having
agreed on programme that would not hurt
the trusts, he said the whole .'shebang,
the President. j. Pierpont Morgan. Knox
and Littleheld could lay down at night like
the lion and the lamb
PROTEST FROM GROSvENOR.
A Senate bill to authorize the Treasury
Department to provide souvenir coins for
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