New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-16
The Honorable. the Secretary of the Treasury.
THE HOUSE ORGANIZES.


A BITTER LOOKING BODY THAN ITS PREDECESSOR
THE DRAWING ZOE sEATs-OBJECTON5 10
NEW MEMBERS.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBCNRl
WAsHISGToS Oct. 15.-The House met to-day
and completed its organization without excitement.
During the whole afternoon hardly an incident oc-
Cured to entertain the hundreds Of spectators wnO
crowded the galleries throngcd the open spaces upon
the floor in the rear of the seats and surgcd through
the corridors of the House-wing0f the Capitol, vauy
seeking admission, LONG after every available seat
and inch OF standing room were filled. The crowd
was a much more respectable one that that which
gathered at the meeting Of the XLIVh Congress al
most two years ago. The thousands of hungry office
seekers who made decent upon the House TO cap
ture the hundred minor positions in the gift Of the
Democratic majority, no longer crowded the Capitol,
and did not give to its passage ways, and even the
floor of the House itself formerly, the character
of a Democratic ward meeting IN New-York or Phil
adelpha.
The present House OF Representatives, when its
members are all seated, inpresses who looks
down upon it from the galleries a more dignihed
and probably an ADLER body than its predecessor
The XLIVth Congress contained so many new MEM
hers a majority of whom were chosen by accident,
having been nominated at time when their cOnstIt-
uents supposed their election TO be impossible that
was not IN appearance very impressive body. hun
dred or more of the Representatives were then any
thing except at ease III their new postlOns and 1t
took at least the whole Of the first long session to
wear off that natural embarrassment, which was the
result of their lack of experience. The present
Uonse in its personnel is substantially the same as
the last vet from several districts which two years
ago were represented by inexperienced men, old
Representatives who served IN the XLllld or preyi-
GUS Congresses have been returned.
The distinguished men of the House. those whom all
strangers desire to nave pointed out to them were
scattered among their less celebrated colleagues.
General Banks occupied front seat on the left OF
the Sneakers table near that in which he sat in the
last Congress In front of HIM, during part of the
opening proceedings stood General Thomas Ewing,
of ONO. holding in his hand a large bouquet.
Alexander If. Stephens. looking several years
vonnger than when he left Washington last Spring.
after his long Sickness in his old seat at the foot
of the centre aisle, the Democratic side. Scores
Of REPRESENTATIVES., Republicans as well as Demo
Gratis, stopped at his desk they passed to congrat
Mate him on his partial restoration to health. Mr..
Stepbens may almost be said to have no enemies III
the House. Even General b. +. Butler, Of Massa-
cbusetts. had pleasant word to say 10 him as the
two men held each Others hands Tor several MIN
ntes On the Republican side of the House
Iudoe Kelley, General Garfield and Eugene Hale
uere IN their old places and Messrs. Wood Cox and
Clymer. Oh the Democratic side, returned " the