The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-03-07
HOUSE SINGS AT END.
Senate Spends Last Hours in Funer-
cal Manner.

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closed at noon today-that is, it clos
ed technically at noon, but the clocks
showed twelve minutes beyond that
hour because of the delay in the en-
rollment of a bill-with the house
singing songs and the senate weeping
disconsolately in its whiskers because
so many of the patriots who have
played parts of varying duration
therein are leaving public life, in most
instances forever, and because the
ship subsidy bill was dead.
They let General Grosvenor sing
another swan song in the house. John
Sharp Williams told of his undying
regard for Speaker Cannon and the
speaker told of his OVERLOOKING affec-
ton for everybody.
Vice President Fairbanks modestly
side stepped any credit for the excel
lent work of the senate. Everybody
thanked everybody else and the gal
leries wondered what the senate was
so solemn about, and why it was that
in a body of $50 men in the house
there was not SINCE soul who can
sing anything on the key.
The house choir is getting worse
year by year Jim Watson of Indi-
ana and Jim Tawney of Minnesota
are the only leaders left They did
their part bravely and when the little
flags were brought out and distribut-
ed they tried to get away with THE
Star Spangled Banner" In the first
place, the house did not know the
words, and in the second place most
of the house voices are so hoarse
with saying That's good that the
higher flights of that inspired hymn
are beyond them and the result was
enough to make vocalist throw fits.
However, the intention was good and
the galleries were vastly entertained
and amused
When it comes down to singing
"For He's Jolly Good Fellow" that
about exhausts the vocal limits Of
the house and the choir fell back on
that from time to time and included
the whole world in the description.
! Uncle Joe" had on a fine tail coat
with silk lapels and pranced down the
center aisle like colt when he was
brought in to tell the boys how much
he thought of them. The senate
snuffed out the session in funerea.
way There was no noise, no joy,
nothing but regrets for those who are
going out and fish-eyed suspicion for
those who are coming in to take their
places.
Some sentimentalist discovered
tears in Senator Spooner's eyes, but
he did not shed them Vice President
| Fairbanks was as solemn as an owl
and it was all very regular and digni
fed. The financial statements were
received with decorous silence Thc
galleries yawned and were disappoint-
ed because Senator Tillman did not
turn few handsprings and when the
vice president declared the senate ad-
journed sine die filed out and voted
the show not worth the trouble it
took to get in.
They tried to sing hymn in the
house after Speaker Cannon had
whacked the ffty-ninth congress out
of existence, but there was not much
doing. Vocally the closing entertain
ment in the house was frost. Still
Everybody seemed glad it was all
over. There were not very many com.
Ipliments and the outgoing trains were
jammed with statesmen in hurry to
get home.
The last session of the fifty-ninth
congress ended with unusual tame
ness in the senate. The mass oil
spectators that packed the galleries
and thronged the corridors were no
| well repaid for their attendance. They
added life and brillancy to the scene
but obtained little in return.