The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
THE NEWS.
THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSIN.
The Prosecution Commence in Rebuttal
to Demolish the Plea of Insanity
Set up by the Defense in
the 6uiteau Case.
Address of General Refer Upon Taking
the Chair as Speaker of the House.
Opening OF the EoEty-Seyenth Congress
-keSfer Elected SPEAKER OF
RHaA

Keller Elected Speaker Of
the House.
SENATE-Senator Davis formally con-
yened the chamber at noon. The Gre
dentials of Senator elect Window were
presented and he was duly qualified and
entered upon his duties.
Resolutions for committees of notifica-
ton to the house of representatives and
president informing them of the organ
iZation of the senate were adopted.
A large number of bills were intro
duced among them the following: By
Garland, for the appointment of com
mission to investigate the questions of
tariff and revenue laws; by Beck, for
retiring trade dollars and recoining
them into standard silver dollars; by
Miller, of California, to enforce the treaty
stipuiations relative 10 the Chinese; by
Conger, to promote the efficiency of the
life saving service; by Window, to in
corporate the Garfield memorial hos
pitai; by Logan, to place Gen. U. s.
Grant upon the retired list of the army.
A recess was taken until $50 p. m, TO
await the notification of the organiza-
ton of the house.
HOUSE
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 5.-The as
sembling of the first regular session of
the fOrty-seventh congress had the effect
| of drawing a vast number of visitors,
and at II o'clock every seat in the gal
leries of the house of Representatives
was filed. Keifer stood for a short time
in the rear of his desk, and was warmly
| congratulated by his colleagues upon
his success in obtaining the Republican
nomination for speaker. at noon the
clerk of the house, Adams. called the
body to order and announced the opening
| of the session. He then proceeded to
cali the roll. The roll-call showed 300
representatives present, the absentees
being Money, Scales, Mills and Deuster.
| Nominations for speaker being in order,
Keifer was put in nomination by Robe
son; Randall by House; Ford by Murch
Cook and Ladd were appointed
tellers. The roll was called,
and the result was as follows
Whole number of votes, 2S5; necessary
for choice, 143; for Keller, 14S; Ran
| dali, 1879; Ford, 8. Those voting for
Ford were Brumm and Burrows, of
Massachusetts; Hazletine and Jones, of
Texas; Ladd, Mosgrove, Murch and
Rice, of Missouri. None of the
candidates voted. FulkersOn and
Paul, of Virginia, Readjusters, voted
4OI hCllSI IHo IGSult ndtlnS DeeH dL-
nounced Keifer was escorted TO the
speakers chair by Randall and Hiscock
| and took the oath of office, which was
administered by Kelly, of Pennsylvania,
as the Oldest member in point of service
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. sherman. Pen
dleton, Davies, Lapham, Bayard and
Morgan, were appointed by the chair on
joint committee for the preparation of q
memorial upon the death of the late
President Garfield.
A large number of bills of u private
| nature, mainly for individual relief
were introduced and referred.
On the conclusion of the morning bus
mess the chair announced that Morrill's
| tariff commission resolutions were the
| next business in order and awarded the
floor to that senator, who declined to
| speak at this time and the senate ad
journed.