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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1899)
FINAL HOURS WITNESSED MUCH HARD WORK AND A NUMBER OF DRAMATIC SCENES—ALL NIGHT VIGILS. SPEAKER REED IGNORED GENERAL WHEELER WHO WISHED TO SPEAK. Mr. Bailey, the Democratic House Leader, Vm Selected to Present Resolution of Thank* to the Speaker-Valedictories of Speaker Reed and Vice President Hobart—Senate Give* 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 upon the appropriation bills. The leaders upon whom the strain and burden of the closing hours fell most heavily and the speaker, who had the greatest responsibility of all, re mained constantly in their places watching vigilantly the progress of the contests between the two houses. The final agreement on the river and harbor bill containing the compromise on the Nicaragua canal was secured about 3:30 a. m. The sundry civil 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 tarian institutions eliminated about 7 o’clock; the deficiency at 8:30 and the final conference report upon the naval bill about 9:30 a. m. With the advent of the day the house began to take ou the appearance of life. Members weut below for their baths aud breakfast aud returned re freshed to their stations. As early as 7:30 the people began to pour into the galleries, the first party to arrive being a dozen ladies, who took their places in the public galleries. The important business of the house had been virtually com pleted when the house recessed for an hour at 9:30. All that remained was the enrollment of bills and the final ceremonies. The last legislative act of the house was the passage of a joint resolution authorizing the acceptance by the United States of the cession of a tract of land from the state of Massuchu setts. It was now 11:45 by the clock, bnt at this moment the assistant door keeper of the hopse, armed with a long pole, set back the hands of the clock ten minutes. This raised a loud laugh. , ' Bnt immediately afterwards came a most dramatic episode. Gen. Wheel eu, of Alabama, who had carefully re frained 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 his old seat down near the front of the democratic side and loudly asked for recognition. ‘“Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!” he The speaker’s face was flushed slightly, but he looked straight ahead as if he did not hear. “I ask unanimous consent to speak for five minutes,” shouted the general. 9But 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,” demanded General Wheeler. The speaker then turned toward him for the first time, and looking straight into the gray eyes of the 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 president marched down the aisle. The speaker had retired to his room and Mr. Payne, the speaker pro tem, was in the 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 farther comtnnnication to make. “The president requested us to state,” he continued, “that the fifty fifth congress has performed its extra ordinary duties manfully and he re quested me to extend to each and every member his besk wishes for his safe return to his home.” Greut applause greeted this an nouncement. Bnt five minutes re mained. In it was enacted one of the most dramatic scenes ever witnessed in the hall of repiesentatives. Mr. 1 ayne summoned Mr. Dockery, democrat, of Missouri, to the chair and he, in turn recognized Mr. Bailey the minority leadei of the congress, to present the resolution thanking the speaker for the impartial manner in whieh he had presided over the delib erations of the house. I he chair called for a rising vote on the resolution of thauks. Every mem- her was on his feet and the resolution was unanimously agreed to, amid pro longed applause. Mr. Dockery, when the applause had subsided, appointed Messrs. Bai ley, Bell, of Colorado, and Payne a committee to escort the speaker to the chair. \ A moment later, as the speaker emerged 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. “In laying down Tor the third time the insignia of an office which has but one superior aud no peer, I might, perhaps, fairly congratulate myself upon having had a great opportunity to administer a great office in the fashion indicated by the noble words known to our law, ‘without fear, favor or hope of reward.’ Where I have succeeded I am sure to have your final approval; where I have failed, I am sure you have given me credit for honorable intention. “Notwithstanding any differences of opinion or of party you have given me your confidence in all which pertained to my duties here in a manner so full and ample that my memory of it will never pass away. When I compare opportunity you have given me with what it has been possible to do, I see how much I n 'ed your kind in dorsements of today, for which I re turn you thanks and gratitute. With pleasant memories for our past, which I shall always cherish, and for best wishes for your future, which I shall always entertain. I now declare this house adjourned without day.” Half a dozen times during the prog ress of his remarks the speaker was obliged to pause owing to the sponta neous applause which arose from all sides, aud when he concluded with the announcement that the house s bould adjourn sine „ die the applause and cheers were deafening. The gal l e ^ ies ... joined in the outburst, Patri °^ c son 8 s ''’ere sung and cheers given or arm y> nav y» Dewey and Wheeler. CLOSING SCENES IN SENATE. Vice 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 aud haggard looking senators— senators who were waiting for the final reports from the conferees on the two bills yet in dispute. Finally Mr. Hale appeared with both. The defl cieucy bill 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 its last legislative session of the present con gress. • Mr. Cockrell presented the usual resolution of thanks to the vice presi dent and Mr. Vest, that to Senator Frye, president pro tem, for the very able, courteous and impartial manner in which they had presided over the deliberations of the senat*. Both res olutions were unanimously adopted. Vice President Hobart then briefly addressed the senate, in which he spoke of the immense amount of work done by congress, and thanked the members of the senate for the kind ness received at their hands. In con clusion 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, in the exercise of the duty devolving on 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 whea the senate met again. APROPOS OF GOLDEN \VEDDING HE REHEARSES HIS COURTSHIP. QUOTES LOVE POETRY LAVISHLY Bartow Man Uunilnateii Over Events of the Fifty Long Years of HI* Wedded Life. This is to be a play—a drama in which there are but two actors—a hero and a heroine. Fifty years ago they were the bright particular stars in this same play aud were the cyno sures of many eyes and received the warm congratulations of kindred and friends, hut now the role of the drama is reversed. The stars have faded and lost their dazzling light. The actors can no -longer strut or pose upon the stage and the sympathetic audience must do the playing. Passive, pen sive, subdued and grateful, my wife aud I can only receive our friends, listen to their salutations, rejoice with those who rejoice and sympathize with those who have had sorrow. Fifty years ago there was not a cloud hov ering over our horizon—no apprehen sion of trouble or grief or death or war or any dire calamity. Bright hopes and fond expectations filled our cup to the brim and Love’s young dream made everything to seem beau tiful. We breathed the poet’s grateful prayer, “The world is very lovely. Oh, my God, I thank Thee that I live.” The memory of those halcyon days is sweet and lingers with us, but in course of time the unwelcome ^contrast came. Afflictions and anxieties in vaded our humble home, Siekness came, and death, and then war with all its horrors. Then our dear parents passed away and left us to fight our battles alone, and we have long since learned that life’s victory is to suffer and be strong—to look upon the bright side—to enjoy the blessings of the present rather than lament those we have lost or borrow trouble that may never come. In looking backward over our wedded life I can say that we have had more than our share of peace and joy—of comfort and luxury—of health and strength, more than usually falls to the lot of mortals. As we look around or read the public press we learn of misery and distress, sickness and want all over this blessed land,and there are thousands of unhappy creatures lan guishing in the prisons while their wives aud mothers and children suffer and grieve in broken-hearted homes. It grieves us to think of these, and we can but rejoice thnt Providence has granted to us a better fate. We still have liberty and neither we nor our children nor our children’s children have over suffered for tho comforts of life. Some years ago at a county fair in Arkansas, I was introduced to an aged couple who had been awarded the pre mium for bringing upon the ground the largest family aud the most nu merous posterity. Each of them had passed the four score mark, and while I was taking notes the old man said: “And you may put down that nary one of our ten sons or seven sons-in law have ever been brought into court for anything that they have done. And, Mr. Arp, you may put down that me and my wife have lived together sixty-one years and both joined the Baptist church sixty years ago, and endurin’ all that time I have voted the Democratic ticket—put that down, Mr. Arp.” If I were asked what is the lever that moves the world, I would answer, “It is love.” The poet says: “All thoughts, all passions, all delights WMtever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of love And feed its sacred flame,” Educatian and religion and Inven tion are all levers, but stronger than all combined is love—the love of pa rents for their children and their child ren’s children—the love of husband and wife, of young men for their sweet hearts or of girls for their lovers, the love of friend for friend and of the gen erous and philanthropic for human kind, the love of home and country and of the scenes of our childhood, the hills and vales and springs aud streams, the trees and flowers that adorn them. Walter Scott never wrote a stronger or truer verse than when he said: “Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, And men below and saints above; For love is heaven and heaven is love.” Fond memory goes back to my own youthful days when I was a schoolboy and loved a pretty lass of twelve sum mers and she knew it, and when at our books on opposite sides of the room ever and anon she glanced at me and always blushed when I re turned her gaze. It was an iu eentive to me to study and keep up with her, for she was a good scholar. At the weekly spelling bee, when all of us stood in a semi circle half round the room she generally got head and stayed there, aud I generally got next to her and slyly held her hand iu mine and stayed there, too. That was but a school boy’s love and with time and separation it faded away. Then I went to the institute and was prepared for college and in due time became a sophomore at what is now called the University of Georgia. I found many sweet aud pretty girls in Athens, and during my second year fell desperate ly in love with one of them. Ah, how gently she tolled me along and how sweetly she toyed with me and sang the Bame old story “Will, you walk into my parlor, said the spider to the fly”—and I walked in. She waa kind, very kind, and said she would always love me as a sister. Alas,these sisters who are of no kin. My ad dresses were rejected and all I could do was to smite upon my breast and exclaim: “Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart.” But time is a good doctor, and in a few months I was well and ready for another spider. When nearing lather’s the close of my col lege life my extreme illness called me home and I took charge of his mercantile business. Three years before, when I went to college, I left behind me a sweet little hazel-eyed, black-haired brunette who was a school girl in short dresses and pantalettes. Soon after my departure the length ened out her dresses and was sent by her father to Augusta, there to finish her education. We both returned home about the same time and I was surprised and delighted to fine her a full blown rose, a brunette maiden as dark as Pocahontas and as shy as a fawn. She wore number 2 shoes and stepped like a deer. She was then just sweet sixteen and I hau reason to be lieve had never had a full grown lover. Her father was a wealthy and distin tinguished lawyer. Her mother was a Holt with a strain of Indian blood in her veins that came straight down from Pocahontas through the Ran dolphs of Virginia, That Indian had loved Captain John Smith, and as I had a strain of Smith blood in my veins, I saw no reason why this maiden should xjot love me, and I determined to play the spider myself. The village graveyard was near the big gate that stood at the end of the avenue that led to her father’s house. A smart young lawyer of the town had begun his visitations at the paternal mansion with serious intent, but one dark night he became frightened near the graveyard and declared that some body shot at him. I had begun my visits, too, and it was whispered around that it was I who haunted the young lawyer and scared him off the track. Of course there was no truth in this, for I did not hanker after any close communion with ghosts or graveyards myself and it took me a long time to overcome my superstition and to feel calm and serene on the way. But I did, and sometimes would get within the enclosure and sit upon a tombstone and ruminate and wait for the spirits to come. But this little narrative is becoming tedious. To me it is lengthened sweet ness long drawn out, for it did not take me long to fall deeply, desper ately, devotedly in love and my opin ion was then and still is, that Cupid shot both of us at once with the same arrow. A girl of sixteen who has never had a lover is easily captured by a smart, handsome, promising young man, and my wife will tell you that I was all of that and more, too. I remember, oh, yes, I remember how one moonlight night, when we were taking a walk with a party of young people and I had ventured to take her hand in mine as I recited some pretty verses from Goldsmith’s “Hermit,” I said: “And now, my dear girl, why shouldent we love each other And mate and marry like the birds.” The gentle pressure of her hand was answer enough and I drew her cioser to me and kissed her. “She wept with pity and delight, She blushed with love and virgin shame, And like the mumur of a dream. I heard her breathe my name." “ghe half enclosed me in her arms, ghe pressed me with a meek embrace And bending back her head looked up And gazed into my face.” That is the way that Coleridge won his Genevieve—his bright and beaute ous bride; and on that same line did I win mine. She was not my first love, but I was hers, bless her heart. Oh love, delicious, angelic love, the boon from heaven, the comfort of the soul! When I was young my father made me commit to memory the “Her mit” and “Genevieve,” “The Song of the Shirt,” Gray’s Elegy,” “Marco Eozaris” and many other pathetic pieces, and I love to recall them, for there is no such poetry written now. They help to mould and establish the emotional character of the young and to fix their moral principles. He had a fear of Byron and kept it from me until I was older—Byron, of whom McCauley said: “His ethics were compounded of misanthropy and vo luptuousness and whose two com mandments were to hate your neigh bor and love your neighbor’s wife.” I cannot write poetry, but I love to recite it. Sometimes when I have been Jong absent, I would slip iu at night suffer Many women pain great at month ly periods and believe it nat ural. 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