The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-12-02
HOUSE.
OPENING OF TaE SESSION

oPENlNo OF Tux SESSION.
WAsuiSGToS, December The House
was called to orier at noon by Mr.. Nc
Pherson, the clerk, who called the roll Of
members by states. Tho galleries were
crowded and most OF the seate in the hall
were occupied Whom Louisiana WAS
reached the clerk stated that there were
but two unchallenged certificates
from that state, those of MIR DArroll and
Mony, from the Third and Fifth districts
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The roll having been called, it appeared
.N.. S1a .>a--hs- -. - 400 ~-.;.,ca .. -
answorsd to their names. The House then
proceeded to the election of Speaker.
Mr.. Maynard nominated j. q. Blaine.
Mr.. Niblack nominated Fernando Wood.
Holeman nominated =. y. Cox, who
said he WAS not n candidate for tho posi-
ton.
Tcllors having been appointed by the
result:
Blaine 100.
Fernando Wood II.
$. 5. Cox 2.
ClyLaer of Pennsylvania, !.
Alex. II. Stephens, l.
Blaine was declared therefore duly
tatives for the Forty-third Congress.
Maynard and Wood conducted Blaine
TO the speakers chair.
On taking the chair Mr.. Blaine said:
BLAINE's SPEECH.
GENTLEMEN OF TIM HOUSE OF REP
RRsENTATIv ~ Tho vote this moment
! announced by the clerk, 10 such IN expres
| sion Of yodr confidence ms calls for my
| sincersst thanks. TO DO chosen speske or
OF the American Hohse of Represents
| tives is always an honorable distinction |;
but to be chosen third tmo enhances
the honor more than three fold. To be
chosen by the largest body that ever as.
semblod in the capitol imposes upon mo n
burden, the responsibility Of which only
| your indulgence and kindness could en-.
holden me to assume.
The frat occupant of this chair presided
over house Of sixty.ive members, repre-.
senting n popu lalon far below the present
aggregate OF the state Of New York. A,
that time in the whole United State:
there were not fifty thousand civilized in,
hsbitants ~ DO found one hundred miles
distant out from tho flow Of the Atlsnti,
tide. To-day, gentlemen, Il large ma ority
Of you come from beyond that limit, anC
represent districts then peopled only BY
the Indians, and adventurous frontiers
men. That the national government il
not yot rs old as many Of its citizens, bu,
in this brief span Of time, less than on,
heightened life II has under Gods good
providence and extended its power until
continent 10 the field OF its empire, and at
tests the majesty of its law. With tn,
growth OF new states and tho resultinl
changes in the centres Of population, me-
interest arc developed rival 10 the old one
but not means hostile, diverse but not an
tsgonistic. Nay rather are all these In
tsrests in harmony and tho true serv Of
just . government II is to give e
sections ito full and fail
play, expressing none by undue exsction
favoring none by undue privileges. 1t il
this great lesson which our daily expert
snce il teaching US, binding us togethe
more closely, making our mutual depend
ence IN ore manifest ard causing us to fec
that wherever we live, in the north or IL
the south, in tho cas-. or in the vast. tina
we have but one country. constitution
and one destiny.
Mr.. Dawes, senior member Of the
House, administered the oath of office 1,
the speaker, who, thoreupon, proceeded /,
swear in tho members.
About fifty members from southern
states, who could not take tho oath O
office which 10 known as "iron clad" tool
the modified oath. Prominent anon
them was Stephens Of Georgia
Tho neKt business in order being III,
: election OF clerk, Mr.. Maynard offered ,
resolution covering oil elective officers O
the House For sergsant-At-arms, n. q
Ord way; door-keopor o. s. Burton
} postmaster, II, j. Sherwood; chaplain
Rev. j. g. Butler.
Mr.. Niblack moved to amend by in
sorting instead of the foregoing, tho fol
lowing names; Geo. G. Widdebery, Pete
Rofi, Chas. w. Comes, A. J. Starting an,
Rev. s. ii. Mahon. The amendment wa
rejected, and the original resolution wa,
adopted, and tho officers sworn In.
DELEGATEs PROM TKRRIoRIHs
were then called and sworn In, with III,
exception Of Geo. o. Cannon, OF Utah, |,
J ! reference 10 whom Mr.. Merriam offered ,