The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-03-05
A SUNDAY SESSION.
Congress too Eusy TO "Rememoef
the Sabbath Day."

Sunday and put the District of Column
bia bill through its last parliamentary
stage, il the face OF the Democratic
iilibuster The previous question oa
the conference report CT the Alaskan
homestead bill was ordered and the
vote Cn is adoption will be t2SG"
when the House lccCnyencs at Ii
o clock tomorrow morning. That We
tha ret result OF the Sunday session
Although il vas Sunday ~ the c.!
erda-. it WAS still Thursday, Zebra
ary 26th. according 70 parliamentary
fiction. The Democrats put block IL
the legislative wheel at every oppor-
trnity and it required six roll-calls 20
accomplish what IVES done. Large
crowds watched the proceedings from
the galleries.
When Speaker Henderson dropped
the gayel at noon, MIR. Richardson. the
minority leader. was on his feet. He
announced that there was evidently
no quorum pre5ert and that the House
could do no business on Sunday with
out 4 quorum. Thereupcn, on molten
Of Mr.. Payne. the majority leader, a
call of the House was ordered. The
doors were closed and the sergeaEt-at-
arms was instructed to bring in abscn
tees. At the conclusion Of the call Il
members haa appeared, more than .
quorum, and Mr.. McCleary, OF Min
nesota. called up the conference re-
pert on the District Of Columbia ap-
preparation bill. Mr.. Underwood, Of
Alabama. undertook to interpcsc the
point of order that the bill had not
bcen completed. but the speaker ruled
that quorum having appeared, busf.
ness would proceed. The doors which
meantime had been opened, however.
were again closed by the direction o.
the speaker on Mr.. Underwood's point
ci order that further proceedings un-
DER the call had not been dispensed
with by the action Of the House. After
brief explanation of the report
against the protests Of yariCus Demo
Gratis who desired to be heard, it was
adopted. IA 70 80. There was another
roll-call on ordering the previous
question on the Alaskan homestead
bill, which was presented to Mr..
Lacey. Republican. of Iowa. A half
dozen points of order raised By the
Democrats were ruled out and the
chair declined to entertain all ap-
peals on the ground that they were
dilatory. At 1855 p. m, the House re-
cessed until II o'clock tomorrow, with
the motion to adopt the conference re-
pert on the Alaskan bill.
The House committee on banking
and currency by a strict party vote.
authorized favorable report on the
currency bill introduced by Rcpresan-
tative Fowler, chairman OF the COM
mittee. In reporting the bill the com
mittee says: In addition to proyid'
ing for the issue and circulation Of na-
tional bank notes the object Of this
measure is to Immediately put back
into circulation any money the govern.
ment may collect through its customs
receipts as we'll as through its collec-
tioh from internal revenue. The avail
able cash balance now in the Treas
ury is sG22, 2,667,SS2. To this amount
there is now in national bank de-
positaries s47,755.3OO, leaving a net
balance in the Treasury Of S71,994.-
454. II we deduct S50.000,000 as q
necessary working balance for the
Treasury, we shall have only $2l,-
994,454 to meet the demand on the
Treasury growing out Of the Panama
transaction, which will call for $780,
100000. 1t is evident that the govern
ment will not have any additional
money to deposit with national banks
for the next six or eight months. The
effect Of this will be to release the
total amount Of bonds now deposited
tD secure government deposits, viz:
SIPS 100000 Of government bonds and
$22 100000 Of State and other bonds,
now held by the Treasury in addition
thereto, as security for such deposits.
The bonds SO released may then be
used by the banks Ior further increas
ing their bond-secured circulation,
which will undoubtedly be much
needed during the coming fall
months"
The Senate spent three hours Sun
day in eulogies of four deceased mem
bers Of the House. Messrs. Martin, OF
Virginia; Gallinger. of New Hamp.
shire; Perkins of. California; Clay, OF
Georgia, and Daniel, Of Virginia,
spoke Of the late Peter J. Otey, of Vir-
glnia. Messrs. Pritchard, of North
Carolina, and Mallory, Of Florida,
spoke of the late James Moody, of
North Carolina. others spoke Of the
late James Tongue. Of Oregon. At the
conclusion Of the addresses the several
resolutions of regret were adopted,
and as a further mark of respect, the
Senate at 3 o'clock adjourned until to.
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