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WASHINGTON.
The Organization of The Forty
Eighth Congress.
The Chalmers Manning Contest for
Representative from Mississippi.
Mr Carlisle Assumes the cakership
with n Little lIatcilct nj Hand,

"sr N"rustc Assumes inc Spcakcrshti
with N Little iIatchct nj Hand.
IBy Telegraph TO the Free Press AMI Time,.l
WASHINGTON, ID. G., Dec. 3.-The Fort,
eighth Congress opened to-day. Nemins
tons for speaker being in order MI
Gcddcs of Ohio said II nominate for Speak
or of this House for the Forty-eighth Con
gress John G. Carlisle Of Kentucky, u ma
Of acknowledged pre.eminent qualification
for the place" Mr.. Cannon of Illinois pres
ented the name of j. w. Keifer of Ohio. Mr.
Lyman of Massachusetts presented the nam
OF George D. Robinson of Massachu
sets. Mr.. Morrison of Illinois, Mr.. Tucke
of Virginia, Mr. Reed of Maine and Mr.
Calkins OF Indiana were appointed as teller
and the clerk proceeded to call the roll. Tn
result was announced as follows: For Car
Isle, 19l for Keller, 1l2; for Robinson, 2
James of New York, Lyman of Massachu
sets, j. S. Wise of Virginia, York of Norll
Carolina, j. w. Wadsworth of New York
Ochil'ree of Texas, Edward s. Lacy o
Michigan, White of Kentucky, one each
The clerk thereupon declared Mr.. Carlisle L
be elected and Messrs Randall of Pennsyl
vauia and keifer of Ohio escorted him to the
chair. Ills entrance into the chamber wal
the signal for loud applause. The oath Of
office was then administered.
After asking the cooperation of the mem
bers In the performance of his duty Mr.
carlisle said: u am sure, gentlemen, that
all matters OF legislation presented during this
congress Will receive from you such careful
consideration as the magnitude of the inter.
ests involved require, and that your action
upon them will be wise, conservative and
patriotic. Sudden and radical changes in
laws and regulations affecting the CONNER
clal and industrial interests Of the people
ought never to be made unless impcra,ivcly
demanded by some public emergency, and in
my opinion under existing circumstances
such changes would not be favorably rcceiv.
ed by any considerable number of those who
have given serious attention to the subject "
Applause.
When Kansas was reached on the roll,
Peters, representative at large, was at the
request of Springer asked to step
aside. Springer stated that the gov
ernor OF Kansas had forwarded him
petition protesting against the al
nilsson OF Peters on the ground that he is
ineligible. He however Withdrew the OBJ
lection. Mr.. Peters took the oath
MIR. Converse rising TO question of
privilege said the clerk this morning had
stated that had a certificate of the governor
OF Mississippi been presented by any per-
son claiming to represent the Second dis
trict OF that State he would have placed his
name on the roll. For reasons which were
satisfactory to Mr.. Manning he had chosen
not to present that certificate. He Converse
had cllled.upon Manning's attorney and asked
permission to present Mannngs credentials
to the House. 1t had been the policy of the
House by an unbroken train of rrcccdcns to
scat the member who held a certificate Of
the governor. He asked to have the GER
tificate read
Mr. Keifer said Manning had never &C
ccptcd the certificate and had put on the
clerks files statement which showed that he
was beaten by $50 votes, He had also in ef-
feet stated that he would not ask to be scat
cd on that certificate. Did the gentleman
propose to force Manning TO do what lie
would not do himself.
Mr. Converse replied not only tina, Man.
ming held certificate and was (prima facie)
entitled to a seat, but upon the contest it
would be shown that he was entitled to it
upon the merits of the case.
The certificate was read and after short
discussion over the riglt Of the Republicans
to demand the reading of other papers on
HE IN The clerks Office Converse offered n
resolution recitiug the fact that Manning
holds the certificate Of the governor of Mis-.
ssissippi and providing that he be Immediate
~ qualified without prejudice to the final
right to the seat.
MIR. kasson of Iowa doubted whether the
Housc had right to order n man who did
not claim his seat to be sworn in, TO which
MIR. Converse replied Manning did claim
his right 10 the scat.
Inc previous question was ordered. The
vote on the resolution was; Yeas, 1852 !;
nays 1873
Mr. Cakins offered resolution providing
nnrti tpata .f
slppl and all the papers touching the right of
Chalmers to the seat be referred 10 the com.
mlttee on elections when appointed.
PENDING action the House at $40 adjourn.
ca, after adopting a resolution that the daily
hour OF meeting shall be l2 o'clock.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 4.-As soon as
the Journal was read in the House to-day
the Manning Chalmers case was referred to
the committee on elections, when appointed.
Inc delegates from the Territories were
tnen sworn IN memorial in the election
case from Kansas was sent to the committee
on elections. The Democratic caucus nom.
inees for House offices were elected. A COM
mtttee was appointed to wait upon the
president and inform him that the House
had organized
MIR. Tucker then offered resolution re-
1crrlng to the committee on elections the
certificates from the First district of Virginia.
AZ this point the committee appointed to
walt upon the President appeared and an-
nounced that the President would commupi-
cate TO the House his message in writing.
nc resident secretary at 1906 appeared
and presented the Presidents message.
Consideration of fuckers resolution was
then entered upon. Mr.. Calkins commended
that the prima facie right had already been
settIed BY the swearing in of Mayo
BIZ Aelier spoke in opposition to the res
lution, contendlng that this was a plan by
winch man already sworn in, could be un.
seated on prma facie case and forever de.
priyed OF the right to contest
Mr: wise OF Virginia. asked his colleague
wne'her tnere was any question as to who
has the prima face title to the seat.
Mr.. Tucker-"I will answer nv co,,eao,,o
yes"
Mr. Springer said it was getting to be too
common for returning boards to indiscrim-
inately throw out whole counties 1as was
done IN this case) in order to accomplish a
partisan purpose. The House could not be
stopped from inquiring into the legality of
this proceeding.
Mr. Wise said these assumptions were
based on facts not in the rec lrds, and the
gentleman's conclusions reached to the
point of deciding the case before
trial. Mr.. Mayo declared that the certificate
which al wed him to be sworn in was iden.
tical witt that presented by his colleague
CTucker. He asked in common Justice that
the House should deal with his case fairly,
squarely and justly and not decide upon he
case in advance merely because he belonged
to the minority.
Mt, Calkins appealed to Tucker not to
establish precedent which would endanger
every man In his seat. After the clerk of
the mouse mad put man on the roll aud he
settled fact. ""'
On suggestion of Randall the mat
Ter went over until tomorrow. and al
$3.50 the clerk beg IN reading the Presidents
message. The reading consumed an hour
and q nIlarter and than ON ,,Aa,i. '