The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-07-02
CONGRESS HAS
ADJOURNED
Blunders and Errors Of the
Closing Days
MERRYMAKING IN HOUSE
Merrymaking in the House--The Public
Building Bill With 100000 for
Barre Goes Through With
Appropriations.
MATCHMAKING IN HOUSE

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markablc session Of Congress- in 90
years, according to Speaker Cannon,
hnallv adjourned 1t 10 O'Clock Saturday
night after It'll members had sat ready
and eager to adjourn all through 4 day
OF terrific heat and exasperating delays.
Never IN the recollection Of the oldest
imember has session ended amid such
mixup ma with % many hlunders.
Mistakes BY enrolling clerks, overcrowd
ed with tie mass Of bills that has been
passed within the past two days, ami
many more mistakes BY the government
printing office. which must print each
4 bin correctly Oh parchment before tine
president can sign il, have been the
cause Of the trouble. The mistakes in
the printing office wear suspicious
look as ii aimed 10 discredit the head
lof the office, Mr. Stillings. Massaehus
sets man. whose administration has
been to vigorous 20 be popular and who
is now absent in account Of illness.
\ AT 10 o'clock Saturday morning the
work III the two houses began III the
expectation that adjournment would
soon follow Before noon President
\ Roosevelt. accompanied by members Of
the cabinet had made his annual trip
to the capitol, and in the presidential
room adjoining the Senate chamber was
holding 4 farewell lever, while between
handshakes be signed bills and made
them laws
When il was seen that Adjournment
wonl be delayed because Of the situa
tion in regard to enrolled bills. the
House of Representatives organized IA
self into 4 choral club Under the lead
ership 81 "limr Watson, the republican
whip. ii sang few patriotic hymns and
more music hall ballads and coon
songs, while Mr.. Fulkerson of Missouri
varied the program By whistiing a few
solos. Everybody wa. hot and disheTel.
eli, and the harmony was dishexeled,
too, but the enthusiasm ran high. After
a period OF horseplay, the House took
Il series OF recesses. one after another,
through the afternoon and evening. The
more digniied Senate dill the same.
lpaHsing long enough IN session early in
the evening TO adopt 4 resolution offered
lby Senator Hale FOR an inquiry into the
Yexatious delays 81 the printing office,
public building bill having been deliver
cd with d mistake on almost every page.
ON the only question remaining for
decision Saturday the senate yielded
one again to Speaker Cannon The So
900. 600 appropriation for the new jus
tice, commerce and state department
building was stricken out Of the public
THE great mixup Of the day. The pro.
vision bad been originally attached by
the senate TO the sundry civil bill, but
was removed from that bill when the
Senate decided to try and attach il to
the omnibus bin instead Saturday
morning. to Che CONSERVATION Of those
concerned, II was discovered that
through mistake BY an enrolling clerk
this s3,000,000 provision was actually
in the sundrN civil bin as already sign
ed by the president There was nothing
10 do but pass q joint resolution repeal
ing the provision. and this was done
IN addition to passing The public
building bill, III which are retained the
items OF 100000 for Barre and 5000 600
Tor Boston Congress passed the neces.
sary appropriation bill 70 carry on the
work on these buildings during the com
ing fiscal year, passed small special
appropriation bin made necessary for
the expenses Of the Interstate commerce
commission by the new railroad rate
law. and passed the resolution repeating
the s3,000,O00 appropriation for the de-
partment building These were the dis
tinctivelv legislative acts OF the day.
The important speeches were two
Senator Culbdson's attack upon the ex-
travagant policy Of the Roosevelt ad.
ministration, four years Of which have
cost $fi6.000000 more than five years
Of Mckinley, notwithstanding the Span
ish war IN 1905: and Representative
TaWneys speech in the House annonac.
ing the grand total OF the appropriation.
made at this session to be sSs0.000, 900
but that so much OF this was not direct
IL ehargeabe against Tic coming fsca
year that the estimate revenues 81
$751; 100000 would leave an excess 81
about $f0.000.O00 above expenditures.
fhe adjournment OF the House Satnr.
day night was preceded by eontinu-
ous vaudeville show, with various mem
beers as performers and full galleries Il
applaud Ilie stories and songs were 81
the true music ball type.
Much exaggerated stories are in sir
culation rs 70 President Roosevelt's con
dition. lie is simply tired out nothing
more by strenuous winter and spring
Even nov his Vigor IL such TINT, werc hs
any other man. lie would be called buh
bling over with good health. lie left
Saturday night for Oyster Bay aftcl
4 Congress had adjourned.