The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-03-10
MANNING, S, c., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10. 1915

ocratic Leader Underwood said good
bye, to sit in the next Senate, ani
three score or more other member:
retired.
At the request Of Republican
Leader Mann Speaker Clark turned
the chair over to Progressive Leader
Murdoch. The Republican leadel
then eulogized the liable and loved
speaker and the House passed will
a cheer a resolution thanking Speak
er Clark on behalf of the entire mem
bership for his services during tht
congress.
The speaker then resumed hi:
place and began speech Of thanks
"The multiplicity of honors and kind
nesses that this House has heaped OF
me goes straight to my heart" he
said, but got no further, for his voice
broke and his eyes filled with tears
In the Senate some of the senator:
who are retiring from public life
made farewell addresses. A fare
! well letter from Senator Thornton
! who has been too i'll for several days
| to be present in the Senate, was pre-
! sented by Senator Kern.
President Wilson meantime work
ed steadily in his room consulting
members Of his cabinet and senators
| briefly about each bill and signed
| many measures in quick succession
Among the most important were the
neutrality resolution passed early
Thursday morning, a resolution civ
ing medals to the A. B. G. meaiators
for their work at the Niagara confer
ence and the regular appropriation
! measures.
After his return to the White
House President Wilson dictated the
following statement:
"a great congress has closed its
sessions. It's work will prove the
purpose and quality of its statesman
ship more and more the longer it is
tested.
Business has now a time of calm
and thoughtful adjustment before it,
disturbed only by the European war.
The circumstances created by the war
put the nation to a special test, test
Of its true character and Of its self
control.
"The constant thought Of every pa
triotic man should now be for the
country, its peace, its order, its just
and tempered judgment in the face
of perplexing difficulties. It's dignity
and it's strength alike will appear not
only in the revival of it's business, de-
spite abnormal conditions but also in
its power to think to purpose and to
act with patience, with disinterested
fairness and without excitement, in q
spirit Of friendliness and enlighten-
ments which will firmly establish its
influence throughout the world" .
For many moments before adjourn
ment there was lull in the Senate.
Senator Simmons paid a tribute to
Senator Perkins Of California, whose
term ended at noon. Senator Per-
kins sat for a moment in contempla-
ton of the tribute. Then he slowly
half rose from his seat, feebly waved
his hand toward the North Carolina
senator and his colleagues in a ges-
ture Of farewell and took his seat
again, too overcome with emotion to
speak.
Senator Gallinger offered resolu-
ton of thanks to Vice-President Mar
shall for his services as presiding Of
fcer of the Senate.
The search Of the calendars dis
closed occasional signs Of life among
the many bills and resolutions repos-
ing there, and from time to time
messengers burdened with those that
had passed one house tramped
through the corridors of the capitol
to report the fact to the other. Vir-
tually all of these were private claims
bills or measures Of purely local ma
ture.
AS the roll of the more important
bills was called requests Of "let 1t go
over" from the floor sent them one
by one into the legislative graveyard.
They must be reintroduced If they
are to be renewed in the Saith con-
gress.
Crowned galleries are the rule in
the last hours of any congress, and
every seat among the spectators
bench was filled until q late hour
Wednesday night. The crowds began
to return early Thursday, hoping for
some unusual development to award
their patience.
The House at 1920 took fifteen
minute recess and the members then
organized the usual chorus and sang
songs, including "Good-bye, My Low
er, Goodbye" "Way Down Yonder
in the Cornfeld," annie Laurie, y
etc. Representative Hefin OF Ala
bama amused the members by telling
negro stories. When the recess was
taken the House had been in con-
tinuous session for eighteen hours
and fifty minutes.