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WORK Of fllll-flflH BISS BROUGHT 18 8 CLOSE
FINAL HOURS WITNESSED MUCH HARD WORK AND A NUMBER OF
DRAMATIC SCENES—ALL NIGHT VIGILS.
SPEAKER REED IGNORED GENERiSL WHEELER WHO WISHED TO SPEAK.
Mr. Hailey, tlie Democratic House T.eaUcr, Was Selected to Present Resolution of
Thanks to the Speaker— Valedictories of Speaker Reed and Vice President
Hobart—Senate Gives Way to the House.
The fifty-fifth congress came to an
end Saturday at noon.
Wearily the house sat through the
whole of Friday night, recessing from
time to time while awaiting conference
reports npon the appropriation hills.
The leaders upon whom the strain
and burden of the closing hours fell j
most heavily and the speaker, who had
the greatest responsibility of all, re
mained constantly in their places
watching vigilantly the progress of the
between the houses. i
contests two
The final agreement on the river and j
harbor bill containing the compromise '
the , Nicaragua T . canal , secured , I
on was
about 3:30 a. m. The sundry civ il
bill, in which the house forced the sen-!
ate to surrender the provisions of the
Pacific cable about 6, the District of
Columbia, with the provisions for sec- j
tarian institutions eliminated about 7
o’clock; the deficiency at 8:30 and the I
final conference report upon the naval
bill about 9:30 a. m.
With the advent of tho day the
house began to take on the appearance
of life. Members went below for their
baths and breakfast and returned re
freshed to their stations.
As early as 7:30 the people began to
pour into the galleries, tho first party
to arrive being a dozen ladies, who
took their places in the public
galleries. The important business of
tho house had been virtually com
plated when tho house recessed for an
Wat 9:30. All that remained wu
the enrollment of hills and the final
ceremonies.
The last i, s i„«tive set of the house
the Passseo of a joint ............
authorising the acceptance by the
United States of the cession of a tract
of hunt from the state of Mattel,«.
setts. It was now 11:45 by the clock,
but at this moment the assistant door
keeper of the house, armed with a
long pole, set hack the hands of the
Cock ten luiuutes. This raised a hmd
laugh.
But immediately afterwards came a
most dramatic episode. Gen. Wheel¬
ed, of Alabama, who had carefully re
framed from exercising his privileges
as a member of the house pending the
determination of the house as to his
right to a seat in the house, arose from
liis old seat down near the front of the
democrntic side and loudly asked for
recognition.
{ i Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!’ he
called.
The speaker’s face was flushed
slightly, but he looked straight ahead
as if he did not hear.
t 4 I ask unanimous consent to speak
for five minutes,” shouted the general.
But the speaker disregarded him.
Every eye was now rivited upon the
diminutive figure of the grizzled old
veteran of two wars.
The situation was intensely dramat
ic, but Mr. Payne, the floor leader of
the majority, hurried to the rescue,
He moved a recess for ten minutes.
“Pending that, I ask unanimous
consent to speak for three minutes,”
tlemunded General Wheeler.
The speaker then turned toward
him for the first time, and looking
straight into tlie gray eyes of tlie gen
eral, ignored his request completely,
putting the motion of Mr. Payne and
declaring it carried.
As the hands of the clock pointed
to seven minutes to 12, although it
was really then three minutes past the
hour, the committee appointed to wait
upon the prescient marched down the
aisle. The speaker had retired to his
rooui and Air. Payne, the speaker pro
tern, was in tho chair. Mr. Dalzell,
in the center, announced that the com
mittee had fulfilled its duty and that
the president had made'reply that he
had no further communication to
make.
“The president requested us to
state,” lie continued, “that the fifty
fifth congress has jierformed its extra
ordinary duties manfully and he re
quested me to extend to each and
every member his best wishes for his
safe return to his home.”
Great applause greeted this
nouncement. But five minutes re
mained. Iu it was enacted one of the
most dramatic scenes ever witnessed in
the hull of representatives.
Mr. Payne summoned Air. Dockery,
democrat, of Alissonri, to the chair
aud he, in turn recognized Air. Bailey
the minority leader of the congress, to
present the resolution thanking the
• speaker for the impartial manner in
which he had presided over the delib
orations of the house.
The chair called for a rising vote ou
the resolution of thauks. Every mem-
was on his feet and the resolution
unanimously agreed to, amid pro¬
longed applause.
Mr. Iloekery, when the applause
had subsided, appointed Messrs. Bai
ley, Bell, of Colorado, and Payne a
committee to escort the speaker to the
chair. Ull .
A moment later, as the speaker
emer g e d from the lobby, escorted by
the committee, the cheers that greeted
his appearance made the rafters ring,
As the speaker faced the house the
stillness of death settled down upon
it. The speaker fairly towered over
his surroundings. Slowly and with
great deliberation he returned his
thanks for the compliment the house
had conferred upon him. He said:
Reed’s Valedictory.
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the announcement that the house
should adjourn sine dio the applause
ami cheers were deafening. The gal
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Y iee . President * .* Hobart declared the
senate of the fifty-fifth congress ad
journed without a day, eight minutes
after 12 o clock Saturday, after a con
tinuous session beginning at 11 o’clock
on Friday, with the exception of one
hour’s recess during the forenoon.
The day of tho final adjournment
broke with the senate in executive ses
sion, disposing of a large number of
nominations. When the doors were
opened there were seen a handful of
tired and haggard looking senators—
senators who were waiting for the final
reports from the conferees on tho two
bills yet in dispute. Finally Mr.
I Hale appeared with both. The defi
ciency hill was quickly passed and
then came the final and closing fight
on the naval bill and the price of
armor, and for an armor plate factory,
This was finally over, and the weary
senators took a short recess,
After some further discussion, the
conference report was agreed to with
out division,
At 11:45 the senate began it? last
legislative session of the present con
gross.
Mr. Cockrell presented the usual
resolution of thanks to the vice x’resi
dent and Air. Vest that to Senator
Frye, president pro tern, for the very
able, courteous and impartial manner
in which they had presided over the
deliberations of the senat u Both res
olutions were unanimously adopted.
A ice President Hobart then briefly
addressed the senate, in which he
spoke of the immense amount of work
done by congress, and thanked tho
members of the senate for the kind
ness received at their hands. Ill cou
elusion he said:
“For the senators who remain and
for the senators who retire from this
body, I desire to convey my thanks
for the kindly sentiments expressed in
tho resolution just adopted, and it only
remains for me now, iu the exercise of
the duty devolving ou me, to declare
that the senate stands adjourned with
out day.”
There was no demonstration what
ever in the senate. There was general
handshaking among the senators and
many expressions of regret were heard
that mauy senators whose terms ex
pired were not to be present when
the senate met again.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS,
W. B. De Latterrieve, of Hoschton,
offers $100 reward for the arrest of
parties who entered his store on one
night last week and blew open his
safe, taking from it $900 in cash, $800
being in greenbacks and $100 in silver.
The Rome Tribune says: “The
people of Georgia should make the
dedication of the Georgia monuments
to our dead heroes at Chickamauga
national park one of the great events
in the state’s history in this closing
year of the century. The date has
been fixed for Thursday, May 11th.
On the same day Kentucky and Illi¬
nois will dedicate their monuments.”
The opening of the Stnte Normal
school at Athens showed an attend
ance of 200, the largest opening at
tendance in its history. State School
Commissioner Glenn, who was present
at the opening of the school, said that
no improvements could be made on
account of the cut in the appropria
tion, but that the providing of proper
sewerage was a question that called for
a solution at an early date,
The recent election in Athens was a
perfect sweep for the street improve
ment bonds, the vote being 509 for
bonds to 23 against bonds. The issue
of bonds will be $100,000 aud will
bear 4 per cent interest. The bonds
will be engraved and put ou the
market as soon as possible, and the
paving of the streets will be under
good headway inside the next sixty
days.
The Hood Foundry and Machine
Works at Harmony Grove were organ
ized the past week under their charter
recently granted by Judge Russell,
Mr. C. W. Hood is president and Dr.
w j Hood „ e8retar aml treasurer.
The capital stock is $8,000. This en
£Mto.ba
prove a very profitable investment to
its stockholders. It Workmen gives employment
^ large foro# and is
kept busy all the time with orders re
ceived from this and adjacent J states,
Boykia Wright, of Augusta, has
"PT omted reoe.rer of the Ati
dir bankruptcy 5SK
the law hy Hou.W.H.
Millar, of Augusta The amount in
reacted V olved is something rariou! like $90 000 ll rep
iu oreditn s. is
claimed in the petition that the com
press company is insolvent V Several ap!
/ J ' J " ’ Dough g y was *
inte «upef-ohrtfoh receiver b J lul tL fl B rinson t
petition of
the stockholders. The creditors there¬
upon applied to Judge Speer, who
sujrercedo the appointment.
Veturans Are Im Earnest.
Thfl veteranB at Fitzgerald, who ap
pii e< | to Governor Candler some days
ago for iiermission to organize a com
panv for the national guard, have for
warded to Adjutant General Byrd a
liat of the men who are to compose the
command and urge that the authority
f or a G<.Iing the company to the state
niilitia he granted as early as possible,
The interest in the organization of
tho command,which is to be composed
] ar g e ] v 0 f veterans of the civil war, is
displayed on nil sides at Fitzgerald,
*nd there is little doubt but what the
e0 mpanv will be admitted as a part of
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the stat m ilitia and armed for duty in
the very near future.
Pardon Hoard Sets Precedent.
Robert Lewis, the slayer of Fore¬
man Haynes, must die ou the gallows
in Atlautu at noon March 14th unless
some other plan for staying the sen
tence can be determined upon by his
attorney,
The application for executive clem
ency which xvas presented and argued
before the pardon board has been re
fused, and in making the decision the
board has established a precedent to
obtain iu all cases of the kind.
The first ground in the application
f or a commutation of the death sen
tence was the belief that the con
demued man was insane. The board
holds in its decision that if the mur
derer is insane his sentence ought not
to be. commuted for the reason that a
crazy man has no business iu the pen
itentiarv for life.
question of the sanity was*held or the
insanity of the prisoner by
the board to be a matter for the supe
r i or CO urt of Fulton county to deter
mine and not the board of pardon,
CONTRACT IS AWARDED
For Terminal* of the Georgia and Ala
bam» Railway At Savannah,
Some concern has been felt in Sa
va nnah since the Georgia and Alabama
roa q purchased the Seaboard and the
Florida Central and Peninsular, lest
projected great terminals of the
Georgia and Alabama be abandoned
and the Seaboard’s terminals at Ports
mouth be used for the new system,
Anxiety on this score, however, has
beeu Hegemau! allayed by the letting to AY*. YV.
of Pittsburg, of a $300,000
contract for dredging and piling for
the terminals across the river from
Savannah.
WHEELEIl FOR PHILIPPINES.
President Congratulates General Over His
Victory In tlie House.
A Washnington special says: When
General Wheeler walked into the
house Friday morning he was warmly
greeted. He now has the right to
take part in the procedure of business
but continued to be a silent member.
He was deeply touched by the action
of the house at Thursday’s session.
When seen Friday morning he de¬
clined to say anything, for fear it
would be construed into reflecting
upon Mr. Bailey, who has been un¬
ceasing iu. his pursuit of the hero of
Santiago. the |
( t No one kows,” he said, “how
effort, coming from our own side of the i
house, to unseat me, has hurt, it j
struck here,” he said, laying his hand
on his heart, “in order to accomplish
this end, those who had it in charge
have tried to reflect upon my integ¬
rity as a democrat, making it appear
by inuendo that I bad forsaken the
principles of my party. That is what
hurt. I was never a better democrat
in my life, and never believed
more tirnily in the principles of my
party. Had the house acted differ¬
ently from what it did I would have
felt as a kuight might who had some
stain placed on his escutcheon. But
■what pleases me more than aught else
is the fact that so many of my own
party, both young and old, voted
against considering the question.”
The president was greatly pleased
over the action of the house and sent
his congratulations to the little hero.
General "Wheeler will be given a di¬
vision in the Philippines, and will be
ordered there at an early date, It is
understood General Wheeler himself
prefers to go to Cuba, but the presi¬
dent desires to send him to the Phil¬
ippines instead, where his statesman¬
ship will be as valuable as his military
experience.
HOUSE HAD TWO SPEAKERS.
Tlie Anti-Quay M>n Refused to Adjourn
and Elected Kliss.
A Harrisburg, Pa., dispatch says:
During a wrangle Friday in the house
of representatives as to the adjourn¬
ment hour, speaker Farr declared
the house adjourned and followed by
the clerks and many of the members,
left the chamber. Those who remain¬
ed in the house by a viva voce vote
elected Bliss, of Delaware county, one
of the anti-Quay republican leaders,
speaker, and he called the house to
order, Representative Fow, democrat,
of Philadelphia, called the roll aud
two other members acted as clerks.
The roll call showed the presence of
two less than a quorum, although
many members sat at their desks aud
refused to vote.
Mr. Bliss made a statement after
the roll call that in his judgement the
house was legally in session, but the
speaker bad left the house and taken
with him the officers aud the house
could do no business.
Mr. Stewart, of Philadelphia, an
anti-Qiiav republican, said the speak¬
er adjourned the house because he
feared the house would right a wrong
it had done in allowing him to appoint
a committee to investigate charges of
bribery. indors¬
After adoption of a motion
ing Mr. Bliss to, appoint a committee
of five to take action ou the arbitrary
ruling of the speaker, the “rump”
house took a recess until the houl -
fixed for the joint session to ballot on
senatorship.
RESTORING OLD WAGES.
Npw England Cotton Mills Will Go Back
To 1897 Schedule.
Advices received Friday from sever¬
al mill centers in New England make
it apparent that the action of the Fall
River cotton factories taken the
week to restore the schedule of wages
paid in the cotton mills in 1897 has
become general.
Following the action of the Fall
River mills, the mills in New Bedford
and Rhode Island towns and other
manufacturing ceuters of southern
New' England, the seven corporations
of Lowell, the Amoskeag, Stark and
Amory mills of Manchester aud mills
at other places have decided to advance
wages on April 3d.
While, up to Friday, Maine manu¬
facturers had not made any announce¬
ment, it is understood that some of
them have the wage question under
consideration.
Thus far cotton mills employing
ab ,% ut 9,000 hands have decided to re¬
store the schedule of 1897.
COURT AWARDS PRIZE MONEY.
Checks Forwarded to Member* of Crew
B'hich Captured Spanish Shin KitA.
In the United States district court
at Charleston Thursday Clerk C. J. C.
Hutson made out and Judge Brawley
signed 295 checks to the officers and
men of the cruiser Yale for their share
of the money accruing from the sale
of the Spanish prize Rita.
After the Rita had been captured by
the Y ale and hail beeu sent to Charles¬
ton the government bought her for
$125,000. The prize money to be di¬
vided amounted to $59,000.
Captain AVis%, of the Yale, was sent
a check for $8,901, aud the smallest
amount received by a seaman was $76.
A Microbe Proof House.
The oddest domicile on earth is 1lint
recently erected at Yokohama by an
eminent German bacteriologist. It is
a microbe-proof house, built of glass
blocks. There are no window sashes,
and the doors, when closed, are air¬
tight. The air supply !s forced into
the room through a pipe and Altered
through cotton wool to cleanse it of
bacteria. To insure further sterilisa¬
tion the air is driven against a glycer¬
ine-coated plate glass, which captures
all the microbes the wool spares. The
few microbes brought into the house
in the clothes of visitors soon die in
the warm sunlight with which the
is flooded.
u Out of Sight •
Out of Mind/*
ln other months we forget
the harsh winds of Spring,
*Bat they have their use, as
some say, to blow out the
bad air accumulated after
Winter storms and Spring
thaws, There is far more
important accumulation of
badness in the veins and ar
iertes of humanity, which
needs Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
This great Spring Medicine clarifies
the blood as nothing else can. It cures
scrofula, kidney disease, liver troubles,
rheumatism and kindred ailments. Thus
it gives perfeet health, strength and ap¬
petite for months to come.
KMvteys - “ My kidneys troubled me,
and on advice took Hood's Sarsaparilla
which gave prompt relief, better appetite.
My sleep is refreshing. It cured my wife
also.” Michael Boyle, 3473 Denny Street,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Dyspepsia - “ Complicated with liver
and kidney trouble, I suffered for years
with dyspepsia, with severe pains. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla made me strong and hearty.”
J. B. Kmkrton, Main Street, Auburn, Me.
Hip Disease Five running sores on
my hip caused me to use crutches. Was
confined to bed every winter. Hood’s Sar¬
saparilla saved my life, as it cured me per¬
fectly. Am strong and well.” Annie
Robert, 49 Fourth St., Fall River, Mass.
JWWL& SaMafimifl
Hood’s Pills cure lirer i:A, the non irritatin g and
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tlTewilycatliartfc~to~fake ay i t h Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Ice Explosions.
A traveler in Siberia relates an ex
traordinary occurrence among tlio
frozen regions of that country. In the
intensely cold nights, he writes in
Good Works, the silence was some¬
times broken by a loud report as of a
cannon. This was the bursting of one
of the ice bubbles on a river; a pbe
nomenon I had neither heard nor read
of before.
The streams coming down the hills
were frozen on tlie surface some six
to nine inches thick, The water be
neath flowed faster than at could es¬
cape, and the pressure on tlie principle
of hydraulic press became irresistible.
First the elasticity of the ice was seen
by the rising of circular mounds some
six to eight feet in diameter, and from
four to five feet high. The bursting
point came at last with a report like
an explosion. The wmter escaped, but
soon froze again. I have seen scores
of these ice hillocks iu a few versts
or the river.
A Temple of Serpents.
The small town of Werda, in the
kingdom of Dahomey, is celebrated
for its temple of serpents a long
building in which the priests keep up¬
ward of 1,000 serpents of all sizes,
which they feed with birds and frogs.
[lettek to MRS. pixkiiam no. 45,970]
“I had female com
plaints so bad that it
caused me to have
hysterical fits; have had
as many as nine in one
day.
“Five bottles
Lydia E. PinkhanFs
Vegetable Compound
cured me and it has
been a year since I had
an attack.
firs. Edna Jackson,
Pearl, La.
If Airs. Pinliham's Compound will
such severe cases as this surely
must be a great medicine—is
any sufferer foolish enough net
give it a trial ?