Show congressional SENATE washington dec IS tho senate decided on convening today to takebe recess from this afternoon until in order to permit senators to attend the funeral of sirs bright wife 0 the sergeant alarms mr vest made a brief personal explanation the purpose of was that he had received a letter from attorney general graggs denying that at a banquet in new york he had a quoted expressed the opinion that the constitution madeoy thirteen half developed colonies could not reamona bly be expected to meet the demands of the greatest nation in the world mr morgan presented a memoriam 1 from the national board of trade fa to the construction of the nicaragua canal asking that the document bo printed in the Congress lona record mr alien objected and tho object lor provoked an animated discussion involving the rules of the senate as cef as the wisdom of the construction 0 the canal mr morgan accepted objection as an effort to obstruct the legislation for the canal and prevent the count rys securing information or the subject mr alien resented the imputation saying that he was favorable to the cat ca t nal on general principles though ad government ownership hr predicted that tho canal would cost HOUSE washington dec 15 the ways and means committee of the house today agreed 0 o adopt a resolution for the holiday recess from wednesday dec 21 to wednesday jan 4 mr barney R als in charge of the pension appropriation bill thee called up this measure and made a general explanatory statement of its provisions mr alien D mo of the appropriations committee in reply to mr bar ney called attention to the fact that when he first came to congress tour teen years ago the pension appropriation bill invariably precipitated a bloody shirt discussion lie congratulated the country that congress had progressed since then and that there would be no acrimonious discussion on this bill the country at last had the gratifying information that the dpn slon roll had reached the maximum |