Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-07
Meeting Of the Second Session OF
The 49th Congress.
THE PRESIDENTS ANNUAL MESSAGE
RECEIVED AND READ.
Arrest Of swaytz. the Daring RebbsT Of
the Rock Island Express Train.
THE HERzOG OPERA HOUSE DE.
sTROYED BY FIRE.
Harvard Receives $4,000 by
the Death Of q Miser.
Ex.pREsIDEar ARTHuR's WILL ADMITTED
TO PROBATE.
ESPECIAL TO TIKI sxsTrSsl.l
Meeting of Congress.

ESPECIAL TO TIKI aEHFIkhS.l
Meeting OF Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The second
session of the Forty-ninth Congress
will begin at noon to-day. After
PRAYER and roll-call each house will
appoint a committee to inform the
other of its readiness to proceed to
business. The new members who are
to fill the vacancies caused by death
and resignation will be sworn in.
Upon the completion of the formal
organization a joint committee will
wait upon the President to inform him
that a quorum of each house has assem-
bled, and that Congress is ready to
receive any communication he may be
pleased to make. The Presidents
annual message will be then read.
Proceedings IA DOth Houses OF
Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Senate-The
galleries of the Senate chamber were,
in spite OF the inclemency of the
weather, filled with spectators, when
at II o'clock the second session of the
Forty-ninth Congress was opened. In
his prayer, Chaplain Rev. j. G. Butler
feelingly alluded to the mourning
draperies in which the chamber was
hung, in memory OF the late Senator
Pike, OF New Hampshire.
Presiding Officer Sherman laid be-
fore the Senate several of the annual
reports of the heads Of Departments,
which were ordered printed.
Resolutions were adopted fixing the
daily hour OF meeting at noon inform
ing the House that the Senate was
ready to proceed to business and for the
appointment OF committee to wait
upon the President for a like purpose.
Messrs. Edmunds and Salisbury were
appointed such committee.
The credentials of Senator Williams,
OF California, were presented, and the
oath OF office administered to him.
For an hour before noon to-day the
floor of the House presented an en-
livening appearance, groups of mem
bers crowded the cloak rooms and
blockaded the a%isles, ch~attering, and
exchanging congratulations of the sue
cess in the recent elections. or con-
dolence upon defeat. The victors
twitted the vanquished, and the van
pushed jokingly commisserated with
the victors upon their failure to throw
off the burdens of public life. The
citizens of Washington, undeterred
by the unpropitiuous weather,
crowded the galleries and looked
down with interest and amusement on
the scene being enacted below. The
executive and diplomatic galleries
were, however, conspicuously empty.
The desks of various members were
adorned with floral designs. The
Speaker was not forgotten, and
his desk was plenteously adorned.
While congratulations abounded, those
offered to Hewitt were apparently the
most earnest, and he was kept busy
shaking hands with political friends
and foes, who seemed to agee with
each other in expressing the heartiest
good will and good wishes.
At precisely IL Speaker Carlisle
raped the House to order and the
Chaplin delivered a prayer, in which
he feelingly referred to the deaths of
Representatives Reach and Aren't, and
invoked divine supervision over the
proceedings of Congress. The Clerk
proceeded to call.the roll, when PAS
members responded.
On motion of Morrison a resolution
was adopted directing the Clerk to
inform the Senate that the House was
ready to proceed to business.
A committee was appointed by the
Senate to wait upon the President
and inform him that Congress was
ready to receive any communication
he might desire to make. Messers.
Regain, Breckenridge and Reed were
appointed to such committee.
A recess was extended to 2 O'Clock,
at which hour Mr.. Edmunds
reported that the joint committee of
the twohouses had waited on the Presi-
dent, and that the President had asked
the committee to congratulate the
Senate and the House on their safe re-
turn to the Capitol. and to say hat he
would communicate in writing. I'M
mediately %thereupon his message was
received and the reading was begun
by Secretary McCook.
On the reassembling OF the House
q committee was appointed to wait
upon the President. 1t was announced
that the committee had performed its
duty and that the President would
communicate in writing forthwifh