The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-05
HOUSE.

The House took recess this morning
from till 10 o'clock.
THE conference COMMITTEES on the dis
tillery bill failed to agree.
The report to allow mileage Tor last
July's session was rejected.
The conference report on the dehcieh-
CIV bill was agreed to. Also on the leg
islative appropriation bill.
A conference committee was appoint
ed on the Spanish and Cuban sympathy
resolution; on House bill on the claim OF
Corcoran; on miscellaneous appropria-
tion bill.
A resolution was reported forbidding
the delivery to General Lee OF the wash
ington relics.
+. A bill was passed confirming certain
purchases of land in the Iowa district,
Michigan.
No action was taken on the motion to
reconsider the Congressional debate
publishing resolution.
AT ten o'clock Mr.. Coburn reported
that the committee of conference on the
currency bill failed to agree.
A bill to protect fur-bearing animals
in Alaska was passed.
The Willamette river, Oregon, bridge
bill was passed.
The conference report on the insect
laneous appropriation bill was agreed TO-
House adjourned sine die at II O'CLOCK
The new House meets at ) O'Clock this
afternoon.
The Senate joint resolution, extending
the time for completing the fist twenty
A. ~ nj
was passed.
Evidence in the Busteed impeachment
case was reported and ordered printed
A resolution was adopted thanking
Mr.. Pomeroy for presiding over the de-
liberations of the House since Mr.. Col
fax's resignation.
Mr.. Pomeroy then resuming the chair
addressed the House and it adjourned
without day.
FoRTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
The House met at O'clock, and was
called to order by Mr.. Mcpherson, CLERK
of the last House. The absentees were
Messrs. Cox of New York, Kelly of Penn
eylvania, Morgan of Ohio, and Hamil.
ton of Florida. The States of New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Virginia
Geogia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisia-
Ia, Texas, Vermont and the Twenty
First District of Pennsylvania, Covado
and the Third and Fourth Districts OF
South Carolina were not represented.
Mr.. Washburne of Illinois made mo-
ton that the House proceed to election
of Speaker. Agreed to.
Mr.. Brooks made a point of order
that the Recording Clerk had not called
the names of the members elect from
Georgia and Louisiana. The Clerk
overruled the point of order. Mr..
Brooks appealed from the ruling of the
Clerk. The Clerk refused to entertain
the appeal.
Then commenced a scene of noise, up
roar and excitement, which for time
threatened to result in a general row
The storm which had looked so porten-
tious passed away, and all was APP
parently serene again.
Mr.. Randall nominated Mr.. Kerr, OF
Indiana, for Speaker.
The vote reSulted-JameS q. Blaine
1876; Michael c. Kerr, of Indiana, 30.
The Clerk thereupon announced that
Mr.. Blaine was duly elected Speaker of
the House of Representative for the
Forty-tirst Congress, and appointed
Messrs. Dawes and Kerr to conduct
him to the Speakers chair.
The ceremony having been performed
amid general satisfaction, the Speaker
elect delivered his opening speech.
The oath was then solomniy admin.
istered by Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois,
the senior member of the House. When
the ceremony of swearing the members
commenced, they were called up in
patches of twenty or thirty at a time,
who arranged themselves IN the area
in front of the Speakers chair and took
the oath with uplifted hands.
Objection was made by Mr.. Butler t.
Mr. Howell, of Maryland; by Mr.
Schenck to Messrs. Winchester and
Rice, of Kentucky; by Mr.. Brooks to
Messrs. Van Horn and Dyer, of Nilsson.
ri, and these gentlemen stepped aside
and did not take the oath.
All the members with these excep'
tions and the delegates having been
thus sworn, the House at half-past five
adionrned