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Show THE CLOSING SCENES. Work of the Fifty-First Congress Ended -Adjourns Without Day. ' ashin'gton, Oct. 2. The closing fs of the Fifty -first congress were out any noticeable incident. At 5 k last evening McKinley, chair-: chair-: of the committee appointed to upon the president, announced " the president had no further corn-nation corn-nation to make, and then the house a recess. During the recess nearly 'he members left the hall to make iwutions for their departure from cit.v. so, when othe speaker reeon-,;t'd reeon-,;t'd tho house, that official looked ,v pou a vast array of empty sorts, merely stated that according to con-eQt con-eQt resolution, he declared the first iott of tho Fifty -first congress ad-oed ad-oed without day. "most simultaneously Vice-Presi-Morton iu the senate rose and J a brief speech, thanking the sen- rs for the resolution adopted and for cordial co-operation he had re- rl from all. He then declared the "ate adjourned without day. |