The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-05-07
CONGRESS QUITS
.n,oyRNMENT OF BOTH HOUSES
OCCURRED THURSDAY.
., ovation to Speaker Cannon
,he Feature of the House Ses-
.,,n. -Eulogized by williams,
Leader Of the MinOrity---Seuate
session Very Quiet.

Washington, April 29.-The closing
s the second session of the house of
.bo Fiftv-eighth congress was made
table by the demonstration which
,ras evoked by a resolution offered by
NJ williams, the minority leader, tes-
tifyiny to the courtesy and impartial
manner in which Speaker Cannon had
-roc;ded over the house. The resolu-
ION was not of the perfunctory kind,
hnt WAS expressive of the kind feeling
,rbich men in the house of all parties
entertained toward him. In grateful
sneech the speaker declared his appre-
ciation of the resolution.
MANY conference reports were agreed
ON bills which had been in dispute
between the two houses. The only de-
hate of any Importance was on the bill
providing for the restoration to the
naval academy of three cadets who
had been dismissed for hazing, the
house voting overwhelmingly against it.
The time was within five minutes of
the hour set for adjournment when
Commemorative Williams, of, Missis-
sippi the minority leader, amid i'm
pressive silence, was recognized to pre-
sent a resolution expressive of the ap-
nreciation of the house for the fair and
impartial manner in which the speaker
had presided over that body. He pre-.
faced the resolution with the statement
that. in the exercise of a personal,
though not a parliamentary privilege,
shat it was very welcome, he desired
10 offer to the house and move the
adoption of the reolution.
THAT resolution l will now read, "
he said, and he read as follows, Mr..
Richardson, of Tennessee, in the mean.
time having taken the chair:
Resolved, that the house of repre-
sentatives return its thanks to the
speaker, Hon. J. G.. Cannon, of Hill
noie, for the fair and impartial and
able manner in which he has presided
over it's deliberations, and for the stur
dy common sense and genial good hu-
NOR which have been shwon by him
and which have induced the memb ers
of the house itself, in degree almost
unprecedented, in imitation Of him, to
display the same sterling American
charac teristics in their deliberations
and mutual dealings"
Williams Eulogizes Speaker.
Mr.. Williams, following the reading,
which was punctuated with general
applause, said it was great thing to
be a speaker of the houses of commons
of the American republic, bat it was
greater thing not to permit promo.
ton to that place, one of the most ex-
allied in the world, to turn ones head
in the slightest degree orto defect one
from the course hitherto pursued, of
being plain American citizen, with
extraordinary common sense and re-
markable fund of that most character
istic of all American qualities-geni-
al humor
This utterance provoked great ap-
plause from both sides of the house
and the galleries. Mr.. Williams con-
vulsed the house by referring to u con.
versation he once had with the speaker,
in the oousre Of which he said, II will
always think that you are fair, as be-
lieve you will be-" The speaker, he
said, replied, John, am going to
be as fair as can consistently with
the exigencies of American politics.
Mr.. Williams declared that the
speaker did himself injustice when he
put that limitation ON his statement,
but" he said, ''it was characteristic
of the frankness and candor of the man
to put in the limitation"
He then moved the adoption of the
resolution, and that a committee be
appointed to bring the speaker in.
The ovation to the speaker as he
Drought down his gavel exactly at
@:lO o'clock will be long remembered
as Done of the GREATEST demonstrations
OF regard ever witnessed in the house
OF representatives. As one man the
representatives rose and sangg Gamer
ica' the occupants of the galleries
Joining in. Speaker Cannon took a
position near the lobby door on the
Republican side and the members filed
past and babe him good bye, all the
while singing Hes jolly Good Fell
low, with refrain, $50 Say We All
OF U.s. to the tune of America" clos
ing with God Be With You, Till
We Meet Again"
No Excitement in Senate.