Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
FIGHT AND SING
AS SESSION ENDS
Scenes of Strife and Sorrow Mark the
Closing Moments of the Sixty
First Congress.
OWEN BLOCKS THE SENATE
Filibusters on Statehood and Almost
Defeats Appropriation.
PATH0S OF THE LAST SESSION
What the Adjournment Means to
Many Members.
MARKS PASSING OF OLD REGIME
GriEEIed Veterans GO Down the stairs
Never Ia Return ns Member. OF
the Great Legislative
uOdy.
ZEN BLOCKS THE SENATE
Filibusters on Statehood and Almost
Defeats Appropriation.
.THOs OF THE LAST SESSION
What the Adjournment Means to
Many Members.
MARKS PASSING OF OLD REGIME
cFrom a staff corresnondentl

From n STAFF Correspondent
! WASHINGTON, March 4-tSpeciaI Tele-
gram)--Not in forty years has there been
as turbulent and in many ways as unsat-
isfactory termination Of congress as that
which expired today by operation OF law.
Up to the last 1t was fight fight. fight
and filibuster in both house and senate
and at II o'clock, within an hour Of the
constitutional limit placed upon the Sixty
first congress, il seemed as II four OF the
great supply bills would fail because Sen
ator owen, forsooth had constituted him
self tn esie judge to what sort OF a
constitution the president and congress
| should accept from Arizona, the consttu-
tion OF New Mexico having been accepted
| on the part of the house and the new state
was knocking at the doors of the senate
to be admitted into full statehood.
! Not since the days when Senator Thomas
! II, Carter talked river and harbor bill to
death, away back In McKineys time has
such sovereign power been displayed,
lodged in the person OF one man, as was
shown in owens case. lmportuned by his
democratic friends beseeched by his repub-
Iican colleagues, labored with to even the
loss OF personal dignity by the vice presl-
dent, and asked to see the president In
]
when 1 nthe capitol, Senator owen turned
deaf ear to all and voiced in thunderous
tones the information that he was present
70 defeat a republican state coming into
the union II It was not accompanied by
a democratic state, for he classed New
Mexico as republican and Arizona as dem
ocratic. Finally an agreement was reached
| to vote on his amendment to the resolution
permitting both states to come, in and
should his resolution fail then further
consideration of the bill admitting New
Mexico was to be abandoned.
owen kills Two states.
The vote stood 80 for 70 46 against the
owen resolution and New Mexico and Ari-
zona passed off the stage until the Sixty
second congress shall enact legislation that
Will bring them into the union.
With the owen resolution defeated, II
wa comparatively easy to get the supply
bills through and signed before the hour
OF noon arrived, to the intense Joy of hum
dreds of employees, especially about the
capitol, who had an extra months pay in
the general deficiency bill, money to pay
their board bills and enough left to get
home on, while their places will be taken
by hungry HORDE Of democrats, who are
already marching on to Washington in
anticipation OF the feast which will follow
fast upon April 4, when the democrats will
organize the house and take the offices.
Note of Sadness in House.
Although 1t was fight, fight, fight until
the last, there was throughout the scenes
In the house a tragic element of sadness
aocentuated by the clear treble Of one OF
the young pages. who sang from the
vantage ground OF the top of a. desk. sur
rounded by scores of members, MY Old
Kentucky Home" and THAT One Sweet
Song" which touched the heartstrings OF
many Of the older men OF the house, for
they saw in 1t all the pathos OF severed
friendships and in many cases beginning
life over again. After all, while politics
brings its joys Of triumph, It is problemAtic
whether these hours can assuage the panRs
of defeat, and there has not passed out OF
the gray portals Of the capitol In a quar-
ter OF a century so many grizzled political
warriors who from tomorrow will prefix
senator or Representative" with an
"ex." and many OF those who passed out
and were swallowed up by the crowds on
Pennsylvania avenue viii never come back
again
Results of the Session.
out of the smoke OF the closing battle
in congress emerge these results OF larger
interest. positive results:
Provision Of 100000 for the fortificatlon
OF the Panama canal.
Provision for two new batteships.
Recodification Of the judicial code
Creation OF forest preserves in the South
ern Appalachian and White mountains.
Providing for the construction OF embassy
and legation buildings abroad
Requiring the inspection of locomotive
boilers.
Negative results:
Failure OF the Canadian reciprocity agree
ment
Failure OF the permanent tariff board bill.
which passed the senate but was killed
by a filibuster in the house.
Failure Of the resolution to admit to
statehood Arizona and New Mexico killed
by a filibuster In the senate.
Failure Of the proposal to increase the
rate Of postage on the advertising sections
of the large magazines, but a commission
provided for to investigate the subject
Failure OF the resolution providing for
the direct election OF United States senators.
Failure Of the general age pension bill
Failure TO enact the ocean mail subsidy
passed by the senate alone.
Mccartney Not Confirmed.
The nomination Of Frank Mccartney to
be postmaster at Nebraska city, which
came to the senate yesterday failed OF con-
firmation, because the chairman OF the
postoffice and postroads committee. Sen
ator Penrose, failed TO report Il In time
TO be acted on last night, or rather early
this morning. II Il had been reported the
would have been rejected, but
Il was an easier way TO KIN the nomi-
nation by having Il held up In committee.
NebrAskAns Coming Home.
Senator Brown will leave Washington
afternoon for Keamey. stopping
at Des Moines on route TO pay brief visit
TO his mother.
Representative Latta left for Tekamah
this afternoon,
Representative MacQuire Kinkaid, Norris
md Hinshaw are as yet undecided as tu
when they may start for home, but The