Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-04-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
session Near its Close Busy Times
Interesting Scenes.


WASHINGTON, d. c., April % (speciai) =
rhsre are oniya few hours remaining OF
.ha second session of the ssh Congress
greet bubbub prevails at the Capitol
nuiIding, aithougb the closing days are
much more orderly than In former days
The republicans have become SC well dis
eipline d, as party bearirgsthe responsi'
bili,y of administratio that they ar
range their programme carefully Ia ad-
vance, and carry it out very nearly rs it
was arranged.
Usually there are night sessions OF SEN
ate and House. 1t looks now as thong IA
the end of the present session would be
reached without any long night sessions.
Those are always picturesque occasions,
for it is beautifnl to see the beacon gitam-
ing from the topmost tower on which the
figure of the goddess OF liberty stands,
and to see the long corridors blazing with
electric lamps.
Not only the crowds OF curious tourists,
always in Washington at this time Of
year, but many OF the fashionable ladies
of the city appear In the galleries as spec
tators. As a rule, Washington reside nts
pay little attention to the proceedings of
fond of BOOSTING that they have not been
inside the Capitoi for pumb Der OF years.
But the night sessions attract many who
would not go to the Capitol any other
time. The animation of the floor of Sem
ate and House is so to be noted. The
veterans in legislation take 1t all 10 a
matter fact way. They are sure OF
themselves and generally Of whatever
they want done.
But the younger senators and members
are often eagerly urging matters in which
they are Interested, anxious lest the little
bills that will help them in their con-
gressionai campo ign will not get through,
that one or the other house may refuse to
pass these billie. or that In some way they
may fail to reach the President and receive
his signature.
The lart Mig BIT be fore session az ,urns
IL, OF course, the most animated of all,
for by that time the resolution for
adj ,urnment has passed and sill know
what tue limitations of legislation are.
The closing OF this session Of Congress
Is far different from the closing OF the
session one year ago. That was the short
session when business was coDgested
more, and when everyt hing must be COM
pleted by noon OF March 4. For lack of
time many measures we're lost, which
otherwise would have become law and
thus escaped the graveyard OF dead iegis-
Istiop. Then, as the end Of a short SEES
sion marks the close of the Congress, the
lesve-takipgs are always more interesting.
This year the fsrewells will be only till
next December, and nearly every body In
Senate and House Is going out for a hard
summers work ia the campaign. 1t Is
therefore q farewell for only about seven
months. AT the end OF every Congress,
as as the case In March of last year and
ms will be the case next March, good
many men in the House, and undou btediy
few in the Senate, will be taking leave
of public lie and going into the retire.
ment.
Some go voluntarily and some iDvolun-
tariiy. But all have more or less friends
here, and the severing of intimate friend
ships always causes regret. Then there
are always cases of public careers inter.
rupted, which enlist general sympathy
among those familiar with political lie
in Washington.