Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-01
CONGRESS ADJOURNs.

night the first session of the Sixtielh
Congress adjourned wihout.day.
Earlier ia the evening both houses
hsd adopted resolutions sitting thst
hour for The closing Of the session,
and appointed the ususl committees to
wait upon The president aud spprlse
him of their decision. Immedist,ly upon
receiving this notification the pr sidept
hurried to the Capital, signed the bll
and Congress adjouroed on the dot. The
flibu;tsr against the Aldrich-Vraelan'l
currency bill came t. an end st 6:SO
O'Clock, and The bill was passsd-syes
AZ and nays %.
The last act before adjournment was
the passage of the general deficiency
bill, the last of The great goveramept
supply measures, which carries an ap-
p,opristion of $30,7lS,SlS of which
$12 476, $50 is to begiu work authorized
BY the public bulldogs bill, the sulho-
riza;ions Of which aggregate over $S3,
900, 900. The House passed the bill at
$3.50 last night The bill itself was
only briefly discussed 10 the House, but
It furnished an opportunity to Messrd.
Tawney and Fitzgerald, chairman and
ranking minority member, respectively,
of the commit zee on appr1pri, tons, to
make the usual ststamenls rsgsriing the
ststs of the national finances.
Mr.. TawDey sold: Iusisient demands
of the people and of the public service
result in an increased aggregate.
The efforts Of The msj Jrity to maintain
a policy OF greater economy we're trus-
trated by an obstructive and recalcit ant
mil oriiy.
Mr.. Fitzgerald said:
A shameful squandering OF the public
fund.-.
The most prodigste session in history,
Every energy seems TO have been cor
cenirsted upon the task of emp tying the
treasury.
The House lsts 10 the day passed the
omnibus PUBLIC buildings bill.
Immedise after the ofitial an
nouncenert IN the Honss Of The ,grs6-
meut by the Sentts to the conference
report on The currency bill, Spetk- CAN
non recognized Mr.. Bartholdt, who call
ed up the conference report on the meas
ure. Tremendous applause followed his
request that the rules be suspended and
the report adopted.
A vigorous protst Was mfds by Mr..
Willisms because of the fat that the
conf renee report had been held up, in
or Ter f. force I Ie enaclmert of currenCy
leeisIs on tlft was not desired. he
rather suspected, he said, that thtrs had
been something of a RAINING psrt 1er.
ship between these two high po.er ties,
the speaker aud Mr.. Bartholdt."
The vote on the adoption of the report
stood yess. 2l4; Maya, 4; rr sett aud not
voting, 8, those in opposition being
Mesps. Alexander (Mo.) Crumpacker
QId.). Ftzg,r.ld (N. W and Long
wOrta (O).
During the late hours of the day the
government liability hill also was put
through under whip and spur, and 10
the general rush the omnibus ter r;es
bill received final act on aud the slbse-
quent APP roval Of t1e president.
Mr.. Hale presented his statement re-
gardiDg aplr pfitt ous, which he char
act rized as an alarming amount" He
predicted a halt in the future in "lhese
enormous expenditures.
Senator Culberson, of Texas, five min
ules preceding the adjournment of tle
Senate last night, pr,ser d tbs usual
resolutions thanking Vice President
Fairbanks for The able ard impartial
msnner in which he had r sided over
i,s deliberations. Senator Gallinger, OF
New Hampshire was in the chair and
the resolution was ct once fgrstd TO-.
Mr.. Fairbanks WAS escorted in, made a
fesllng response and declared tle Senate
edjourned without delay. President
Roosevelt and several members of n 5
cabinet spent several hours at the
Cap til.
The closing s.s,ion Of the House was
the most dsOrderiy 10 lis history.
After th5 HOUSE, few ilnt after
Q o'clock, had adopted resolut on to
adjourn, sine die, at ten minutes of II,
the members, republican and democrl C
alike, gave themselves over to mtrD-
making, and they were aided aud abelted
in this Landslide undeit king By about
fifty members of the pr.ss galI(ry, who
joined in tie singing and occasionally
turntd lotss an original palo y OF their
Own. Ga the floor nearly every men,
Der had an American hig, The efforts
of the friends of Bryan and Cannon to
rise their pictures TO tie highest eleva-
tionprovoked much amusement.
As the hour agreed upon for adjourn
ment, 1850 drew rear Speaker Gan
non raped FIR ord,r and after short
speech declared the House adjourned.
THE CURRENCY BILL PASSED.
The LsFolltt!e flibuster was trokon
in the Senttl Satnr lay afitraOOn ia a
tTinkling. 1t was done by rick, the
like of which had never bef 70 been wit.
messed 10 taat body. The dramatic
scenes attending t1'raGn wtrs hsrily
concluded before the necessary sigma
lures OF the speaker and the vice presi-
dent we're attached. And before the ink
from the pens OF tiose dislingu shed
signers WAS dry the president arrived
from the White Hous, aud wrote at t1e
bottom OF the parchment :,