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THE SAN ¥FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1903 | | PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES. ear M eaker: As I did not see you to-day at the I wish {0 write you a line tc congratulatz you on plished by the Congress w just closed. measures of importance, the f e to act upon gretted, but it is nevertheless true that, taken as other Congress of recent years has ¢ s credit a record of e substantial for the pub d than this, over | - branch of which you presided. I gratulate you and it, | you well -herever your e may lcad you. Sincerely | 3 fHECDORE ROOSEVELT. B. Henderson, House of Repr atives. | Fajlure of Important Legis!"fior‘.. May Result in a Change in the Antiquated Senate Rules. 2 ars’ service intro- | ! M to ex If dozen bills, yei 1 ) has VEST'S BRI LLIANT RECORD. t gener mai ling and cach time has been g he. has ven the itors and to the fromt the Wilson- of his is tact Democra seven ublicans Democrats f Redublic who go out All the are in avor of ler States it genss wash N TO REASSEMELE Date of Meeting Is Now Under Con- sideration. TON, March COMMISSIO: WASHING! 4—The Comm te Department, ) prevent the re- ! next sum- 1a not r authority ion, PP Commissione e tiations for which he himself must timate responsibilit on of Congress therefore does the official status of the United commission headed v Senator s. It es make necessary the of a more economical pro- | L for the future work of the com- 2 K {ATORS WHO RETIRE. n was origina framed, but Senators whose te possible to reassemble the nission d pay the expense out of the fund of the e Department. ks and Sir Wilfrid Laur- r the head of the Canadian are accor in corre- with a view arranging : Commi spor to or the reassembling of the commis- a te 1 —_—— HOUSE PATRIARCH RETIRES. Galusha A. Grow’s Half Century c Public Service Ends. ASHINGTON, March 4—Among the guished men who retired from pub- life at the close of the Fifty-seventh Congress, none is held in higher esteem by his colleagues than Hon. Galusha A. Representative-at-Large from Pennsylvania. As a token of their re- gard for him the members of the' Penn- ania Congressional delegation, at a meeting attended by every member, adopted unanimously a preamble setting th in eulogistic terms the unusual aracter and duration of Representative ow’s services to his State and to his ¥ and a resolution expressive of the £ v Grow, tirement from €ngress. The preamble recited that his services in Congress be- gan nearly half a century ago, and, while his name has been identifled with many great public measures, the act which he was justly entitled to claim as his own was the free homstead law, “under which public domain has been turned from lderness Into a world of happy DR. PIERCE’S REMEDIES. “«FRUIT OF THE LOOM.” ' Men and women of taste and judgment go into ecstacies over the wonderful pat- terns, textures and colors which are “the fruit of the loom.” But there is one of the loom rarely conm- preamble and resolution, beautiful- engrossed upon parchment and signed each member of the Pennsylvania gation, was presented to Grow with personal expression of the regard and affection of his colleagues. . ENORMOUS APPROPRIATIONS. Aggregate More Than One and a Half Billion Dollars. WASHINGTON, March 4.—The appro- priations made during the sessions of Congress which closed to-day aggregated 54,018, as against $800,624,49 for the 25t session. The total for the entire Congress thus footed up $1,554,108,514, or something more than a hundred million in excess of the total appropriations for the Fifty-sixth Congress. The total for | that Congr s was $1,440,489,438, er, and that is the frail and faded compels ork under which more sister to he doc- seases caken and | FRANCE PROVIDES FUND | FOR MINERS' PENSIONS 1D¢putie! Appropriate $200,000 An- nually fo Increase Payments of Mining Companies. | PARIS, March 4—The Chamber of Dep- | vties, continuing the debate on the bud- | get for the Ministry of Finance, adopted | to-night an appropriation of $200,000 an- [nua!ly for increasing the old/ age pen- ons paid by the mining companies to € for cight years » writes | their miners and employes, The measure 828 East ege Street, | was passed practically without discussion « cannot express what | and without a division. A test vote on an amendment to the measure, the object of which was to at- tenuate its effect, showed that the meas. ure was supported by a majority of 130. emong the medical nds urged me to ion. When I this medicine I weighed Now I weigh one hundred vty | This appropriation was one of the prin- adie. | cipal promises that the Government made such now 1 never have a and am a streng and to the miners at the time of the recent | strikes. It is expected that to-day’s ap- propriation will bring the pensions to which a miner is entitled on reaching the superannuation age from 55 francs to 260 fr cs per annum. The measure was a part of the Socialist programme and is avowedly the first step in the direction of providing old age penslqns for all the working classes, women well. Accept t o ize which | ks wonders for weak women. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets should % wsed with " Favorite Prescription " when. #ver 2 lazative is required, topies during | conduct | et felt by all on account of his re- | o | HOURS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS DISPLAY OF PARTISAN RANCOR BY MEMBERS OF HOUSE MINORITY MARS THE CLOSING | SFEAKER DAav1ID B HE-HNOERSONM ReEPRESENTATIVE- GALUSHA A SR 3 i | PRESIDING OFFICERS OF CON- GRESS, THE SPEAKER-TO-BE AND RETIRING PATRIARCH. — |Good Will Supplants Strife of Factions as the Senate’s Session Comes to an End. ASHINGTON, March 4.—The Senate was called to order at 10 o'clock to-day for the last sit- ting of the Fifty-seventh Con- gress, but business did not be- gin until some time later. The de due to the absence of a quorum and to | the t that Cockrell insisted upon the of the necessary number before up the work of the d pr tal | President Pro Tem. Frye was, as usual, on the nding to the seat of the pr r, but only about a faced him. =The most of them bore evidence of prolonged sessions of Monday Tuesd but the indications n the and of fatigue soon vanished and business pro-| ceeded as smoothly as it would have done the Ser y it yesterd te had adjourned at § o'clock instead of 2 o'clock this morn- ing. It was noticeable, too, that the Sen- ators who have been most busily and most continuously occupled in the closing days of the sion were among the first to respond to their names. | The attendance in the galleries | comparatively small. The crowd increased gradually, however, so that by the time A quorum w obtained on the floor the audience was respectable in dimensions and apparently sufficiently wide awake to give due attention to the proceedings. INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS. | | Allison, chairman of the Commiittee on Appropriations, .made a statement regard- | ing the amount of money appropriated by | the present Congress, as compared with | the appropriations of the Fifty-sixth Con- | gress. The total appropriations by the | present Congress, he sald, was $1,554,108,- 515, as compared with $1,440,459,438 for the | Fifty-sixth Congress, | It was a curlous but necessary thing, he said, to make this comparison more in detail than by mere statement of aggre- gates. The first and most important item | included in this statement for the Con- | gress was an appropriation of . $50,130,000 | for the Panama Canal, which, he said, ac- counted for nearly one-half of the in- crease. There was also, he sald, an aggregate appropriation for the Postofice Depart- ment of §153,401,549 for the next vear, as compared with $138,000,000 for the current year, making a difference of more | than $30,000,000 in excess of the appropria- tions for the last Congress for the postal service. This, he explained, arose from the enormous Increace in expenditures caused by increased postal business. Then, too, he said, the rural free delivery service required large sums. There was, he said, a smaller deficlency than there had been in many years In the postal re- celpts as compared with the expenditures, Allison called attention to the fact that the last Congress passed no river and harbor bill. 1n the first session of this Congress, he said, $27,000,000 was appro- priated for rivers and harbors, in addi- tion to which $20,000,000 was appropriated in the sundry civil bil for carrying out | contracts. He said that while it appeared | that the appropriations of this Congress had been largely in excess of those of the last Congress, the increase was chiefiy made up of three items, namely, the $0, | 000,000 for the Panama Canal, the in- creased appropriation of $50,000,000 for the postal service and the river and harbor | appropriations. Allison concluded by saying that the people of the country had indorsed thesa items of inerease and the opposing polit- | tcal party concurred in them. PHILIPPINE BILL A THEME. Bailey of Texas called up a biil amend- ing the river and harbor acts so as (o provide that the $125.500 heretafore appro- od for certain river and harbor im- provements :n Texas shall be used for tibe construction of a nnel in Sabine Lake, Texas. $ On an aye and no vote demanded by | Mason the Senate agreed to take the counte- | was | fiscal | Lill up. The effect of the vote was to dis place the Philinpine riff bill. The S: bi; Lake bill was then temporarily laid aride and Hoar spoke on the Philippine Lill. The bill had been talked to death, {he sald. This was not in critlclsm of Senators who thought that in the closing hours of the session this remedy should not be dealt with in an hour. The noint | he made, he d, was that the Senate, the executive, the House of Representa- tives and the public were not fit to gov- lern the destinies of a people 8000 miles laway who had no voice in the Govern- | ment. id, “of the wretchedness, the iniquity what the American people did two vears ago in regard to these people. Lodge, referring to the Philippine iarift Dili, said that its defeat was not through House. sion down to the present time, he said, he had tried constantly to find an oppor- tunity to pass this bill. He sald that as regarded the bill affecting any industry in this country it was absolutely impossic ble or the face of it. He then made a | vigorcus reply to Hoar, in which he said he did not agree with him in the view {that the American people were not able f‘m deal with the great problems in the East. believe they are thoroughly able to | deal with them as they dealt with greater |and mightier problems before,” said Lodge. Continuing, he said in these closing hours he could not undertake to argue | that question. he said, that the Philippine tariff bill had failed. *“It has been defeated here,” he said, raising his voice. “Senators have not hes- itated to take the responsibility of killing e When he concluded there was loud ap- plause in the galleries. BAILEY VERSUS MASON. Acting upon a resolution, President Pro Tem. Frye appointed Allison and Jones (Ark.) a committee to meet a similar com- mittee from the House and notify the President that Congress was ready to ad- Jjourn. Mason of Illinofs took the floor and dis- | cussed the statehood bill and the Panama | canal treaty. Balley of Texas interrupted and said it was apparent that Mason's object was to talk the Sabine Lake bill to death and he would relleve him of the negessity of making this kind of valedictory. This Mason denied. He sald that he had never enlisted under the ‘banner of filibustering and he resented the charge that even in the last moment he was en- | deavoring to delay legislation. He in- jected some humor into the proceedings by saying that the statehood bill had gone “floating out on the isthmian canal.” Mason urged that the rules of the Sen- ate be amended and called attention to the ancient snuff boxes in the Senate. There was no more snuff on the Republican side thkan on the Democratic side. It went with the rules, he said, because it was a part of the dignity of the Senate and he added, amid laughter, “like the rules the snuff boxes are as unchangeable as the stars.” Patterson of Colorado charged Lodge himself had defeated thge l‘e(:‘t:)h‘l.flaf mendation of the Philippine Committee with respect to the tariff. Mason, continuing, said the race of peo- ple never had been born that could gov- ern another people without their consent and have peace. “Why not be honest with each other and say we have made a mistake?” asked Mason. Under the law of compensation, he said, we were settling for that mistake every hour. While Mason was speaking Secretaries t is the first great object lesson,” he | favlt of the committee, nor of the | From the beginning of the ses- | Tt was a great misfortune, | 1vCannon Declares Wa | On Upper House | Methods. { —_— ASHINGTON, March 4.—The speech of Representative Can- | non, chairman of the Appro- | priations Committee, délivered i after 3 o'clock this morning in | the House on the conference report on the | general deficiency bill, protestng agains | “legislative blackmalil” and Insisting on | the right of a majority to rule in the Sen- ate, in view- of the fact that he is to be the Speaker of the next House, is re- garded as foreshadowing a contest tpon this question. The scene when Cannon | delivered his speech was the most re- | markable of this Congress in the House. | Late as the hour was the weary members | were set on fire with enthusiasm and | | they cheered his utterances until the | great hall rescunded with their shouts. | Cannon sald: | _Gentlemen know that under the practice of the House and under the rules of the Senate } the great money bills can contain nothing but | | | | s Ty appropriations, in pursuance of existing law, niess by unanimous consent of both bodie: If any of these bills contains legislation it must be by unanimous consent of the two bodies and the uniform practice has been—so | far as I know the invariable practice has been, | | with the exception of one amendment upon | this bill—that when one body objected to legls- | 1ation proposed by the other upon any ap- | proprifition bill the bedy proposing the legis- | 1ation receded. | In this case the trouble in arriving at | any agreement all clustered about one amend- | ment. ere were many amendments of a | legislative character proposed by the Senate; there were many amendments covering hun- dreds of thousands of dollars of clalms pure and simple proposed by the Senate. One by one the legisiative propositions and the claims | disappeared as the Senate receded until we | came to an amendment to pay the State of South Carolina $47,000. A word as to that. In May last, on the omnibus claims bill, | & basis was fixed for the adjustment of the accounts of Virginia_and Baltimore and South | Carolina with the United States growing out of the war of 1812-1815. The auditing officers of the treasury, in pursuance of that law, ad- | justed the accounts of Virginia. An indefinite appropriation was made to pay the respective | | States whatever should be found due by the | | avditing officers. Upon that basis and under | that legislation the sum of $100,000, in round numbers, ginia, ATTACKS SENATE RULES. Under the same law, which is the law to- day, the auditing officers in the adjustment of ‘accounts of the war of 1812, found due to the State of South Carolina the sum of i cents. Now, the Senate of the United States, notwithstanding the law, proposed legislation on an appropriation bill to the extent of grant- ing to the State of South Carolina $47,000. The House conferees objected and the whole long delay has been over that one item. In the House of Representatives, without criticizing either side or any individual mem- ber, we have rules, sometimes invoked by our | Democratic friends and sometimes by our- | selves—each responsible to the people after all said and dome—by which a majority, right or wrong, mistaken or otherwise, can legislate, In another body there are no such rules. In another body legislation is had by unanimous consent. In another body an Individual mem- ber of that body can rise in his place and talk for one hour, two hours, ten hours, twelva hours. It is a matter of history that a Sen- ator on the Republican side, In a former Con- gress, taiked to death a river and,harbor bill. There comes a time constantly in the settling of bills when you must do so and 50 or else your bill cannot pass, and it Is so with the great money bills. In my opinion such a condition existed as to this bill_and clustered about this one amendment. Thers was_ also an_amendment put on to the bill in another body which involved legislation to the extent of granting to the State cof Vermont $150,000 in adjustment of her war | claims. The Senate receded, but your con- ferces were unable to get the Senate to re cede upon this gift from the treasury against the law to the State of South Carolina. By uhanfmous consent another body legislates and in the expiring hours of the session we are powerless without that unanimous consent. “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!" Unanimous consent comes to the center of the dome; unanimous consent comes through statuary hall and to the House doors and comes prac- tically to the House. We can have no legis- latlon without the approval of both bodies and one body, In my opinion, cannot legislate without unanimous consent. There was the alternative—in my opinion this applied not ohly to the deficiency bill, but to the naval Bill, or an agreement as to the naval bl Your conferees had the alternative of sub- mitting to legislative blackmail at the demand, in my opinion, of one individual—I shall not :-}l' v'";?m—or of letting these great money tils fail. MAKES DECLARATION OF WAR. Now, what are we going to do about it? This bill contains many important matters— your appropriations for public buildings, leg- islation lately had all along the line of the public service, to the extent of $20,000,000. Now, I have taken the House into my con- flderce touching. this matter, as it Is my duty to do, Iam getting to be a somewhat aged has been paid to the State of Vir- Continued on Page 4, Column 2. Continued on Page 4, Column 4. | raignment of tk | the ¢ | The Spealker several times | able scene occurred. | vielded the gavel to Cannon, the incom- | ing Speaker. latter took the chair | | in"the Tenth Congress as to Speaker Varnum L HOUSE THANKS SPEAKER. ESOLVED, That the thanks of this House are presented to the Hon. David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, for the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he has presided over its deliberations and performed the ardu- ous and important duties of the chair during the present | C agress. term of Disgruntled Democrats Oppose the Customary Resolution of Thanks to the Presiding Officer. ASHINGTON, March 4.—The decks were clear for the final adjournment at nogn when the Iouse reconvened at i0 o'cloc this morning. The storm whiciy | culminated at 4 o'clock this morning, when Cannon deliversed his scathing ar- methods of the Senate during the consideration of the confer- ence report on the general deficiency ap- propriation bill had passed and every- thing promised a screne and peaceful end- ing. Although members had had more than time to go home for baths, fresh linen and breakfast in the interim since the adjournment shortly before lay- light, they were back in their places for i emonies. The among the The Democratic minority was deter- mined to make good its threat made when Butier of Missouri was unseated last Thursday and filibuster to the end of the session. As soon as the Speaker's avel fell he announced that no quorum present, and thereupon Payne, the leader, moved a call of the The calling of the roil, which seemed to visitors in the galieries to have been going on continuously for the past week, began. The buzz of conversation in the galleries, checked momentarily by the ang of the peaker's gavel, was re- sumed. Members on the flogr talked and laughed and the cracked volce of the reading clerk rose hearsely above the din. was compelled to admonish the House to preserve order, so that the clerk could hear the responses. DISCOURTESY TO SPEAKER. As a roll call was concluded a remark- Speaker Henderson As the the members broke into a burst plause, in which the galleried®joined. was quite as much a compliment to the retiring Speaker as to Cannon. The Speaker retired to his room in the rear of the hall, and Cannon then announced the motion for a call of the House defeat- ed, 134 to 17. Amid intense silence Payne the majority leader, offered the follow ing resolution of thanks to the retiring Speaker: Resolved, That the thanks of this H e are sented to the Hon, David B. Henderson, peaker of the House of Representatives, for the able, impartial’ and dignified ma er in h he has presided over its deliberations and performed the arduous and Important du ties of the chair during the present term of Congress, ‘As the reading was conciuded Cochrane of ap- (D.) of Missouri was on his feet, demand- | ing recognition, but the chair ruled tha Payne was entitled to the floor. The m: jority leader faced the minority as he announced that he conmsidered it a high | honor and privilege to be permitted to offer this resolution, pointing out that it was not the first time that such a reso- lution had come from the majority. He cited the instances of Clay, Polk, Banks and the late Speaker Reed. As he concluded with a glowing tribute to Speaker Henderson the whole Repub- lican side broke into hearty applause. But there was dead silence on the Demo- cratic slde. Payne’s remarks were as fol- lows: Mr. Speaker: I feel it a high honor and a high privilege to be permitted to offer this res olution to the retiring Speaker of the Hou of Representatives, and It is not the first time, Mr. Speaker, that this resolution has been of- fered by a member of the majority party, al- though similar resolutions have been offered and passed by every Congress, commencing with the first Congress in our history. There are numerous cases in which the resoiution_has met with oppos votes in opposition’ and in which a member in sympathy politically with the majority has offered this resolution, In the Fifth Congress such a precedent o curred when Speaker Dayton was retiring; the Sixth Congress as to Speaker Sedgwici in in the Twelfth Congress, when that man who has illuminated the history of his country, Henry Clay, was retiring from the Speaker's office (applause): again in the Twentieth, when Alexander Stevenson retired; again in the Twenty-fifth Congress when Polk laid down the gavel; in the Thirty-fith Congress Speaker Orr; in the Thirty-sixth Congress, Speaker Pennington; in the Forty-seventh Congress, Speaker Keifer, and in the Fifty-first Congress, that great Speaker, that great statesman, that man who, recently called from the scenes of life, is mourned by the nation, Thomas B. Reed (loud applause), was refused this recog- nition, And so we are mot without precedent when the House honors itself by honoring the great little | leaders on | earliest ar- | It | fon, in which there have been | of! s of Speaker of Houss, by passing such a resqlution as this. And of the long lines of Speakers, bearing in mind the history of each of his predecessors, what Speaker is | more entitled to this_recognition as he lays | down the insignia of his office for his impar | tiality, for his readiness to recognize the op- | position and the members of the opposition as | well as the members of his own party, for the dignity with which he has conducted the affairs of his office, for his high character in that office, than David B. Henderson? (Pro- | longed applause on the Republican side.) | ANIMOSITY IS SHOWN. | When Payne demanded the previous question and Speaker Pro Tem. Cannon | put the quest there was a second of oppressi silence. All eyes were on the Democratic side. From the rear row Cochrane (Democrat) of Missouri arose y and in a loud volce cried: “Di- and then “Ayes and noes.” From Republican side came a sound like a ‘he gentleman from M ri demands and noes,” announ the chair. “As many as are in favor of ordering the aves and noes will rise and stand uatil are counted.’ Cochrane was already on his feet. Burelson (Democrat) of Texas at his side jcined him and with some seeming hesi- tion a seore of other Democrats arose their feet. Richardson, Underwood, Williams of Mississippi, DeArmond and other prominent men on the minority side, remained seated. The sound on the Republfean side now became distinetly a hiss a:\ from the galleries also came imilar igns of disapprobation. In_all only twenty-one Democrats arose. The chair counted and, still amid Intense | silenice, announced that twenty-one had seconded the demand. “Forty-two are necessary to order the ayes and noss,” he announced. “Not a sufficfent number and the ayes and noes are refused.’” A great wave of applause swept over | the Republican side and was taken up by the spectators in the galleries as the an- ncuncement was made. Now the question came on the adoption of the resolution. Again Cochrane de- manded a record vote. This time only seventeen Democrats joined in the de- mand and the announcement that the res- olution was adopted was halled with doubled applause. DEBATE OVER A VETO. When the applause subsided the Speak- er pro tem. laid before the House the President’s veto of the bill to grant N C. Thompsen the right to comstruct a dam at Mussel Shoals, Ala., and to Tennessee e fer the message to the water power of Payne removed to the Committee on terstate Commerce, pending which (Democrat) of Georgia, the rity mepiber of | the Appropriations Committee, asked and obtained unanimous consent for himseif | and Cannon to print in the Congressiona! Record statements concerning the appro priations of this committee. This was the first unanimou consent granted since last Thursda: | Payne then yielded three minutes to | Richardson of Alabama, the author of the vetoed bill, who made an urgent appeal to pass the measure over the President's | veto. | Burton, chairman of the Rivers and Harbor Committee, in a brief speech de- clared that the water power of navigable streams should not be given away. Payne demanded the previous question on his motion and upon that Richardson | demanded the ay nd noes. The whole LCemocra side supported the demand. It was 11:15 o'clock when the roll was | called upon this demand. The previous question was ordered, 154~ S0, and the last roll call began on -the | motion to send the veto message to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. During the progress of the roll call the | message from the Senate announcing the | passage of a resolution for the appoint- | ment of a committee to wait on the Pres- | ident and inform him that Congress was ready to adjourn was received. Payne | immediately asked unanimous consent | that the chair appoint a committee of three to join the Senate committee on this mission. There was no objection and the chair appointed Payne, Grosvenor and Richardson (of Tennessee). Payne's mo- tion was carried, 202 to 60. HENDERSON’'S VALEDICTORY. At this moment, six minutes to 13, Speaker Henderson re-entered the hall and ascended the rostrum amid a great Continued on Page 4, Column 3. we are offering barga in each depaitment. lowing for to-morro 75¢ values reduced to .. 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