The Forrest City times., 1891-12-11
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
BOTH BRANCHES MEET AND Ap.
 JouRN TILL TO-DAY.
Three Hundred and rwenty-six Menbsrs Answer Clerk McPherson's Ron
 Call in the House.

as Mir. Reed responded to his name his
 Republican colleagues gave him .
 round of applause. The clerk having
 announced the presence of 320 mem-
 bers, the House immediately, on motion
 of Mir. Holman of Indiana, adjourned
 The chamber pre- ented a brilliant appearance. The furniture had been
 reupholstered and the blue covering of the desks contrasted pleasantly with the new terra cotta carpet. Many of
 the desks were ornamented with floral
 designs of more or less beauty, although l they were not as numerous as in former
 spcuous by the absence of adornment- The galleries were crowded with spectators.
 The Senate.
 The Senate galleries were crow dcd
 with spectators eager to witness tho
 opening of the Fifty second Congress
 The res'dential and diplomatic galler-
 ies were unoccupied, but the reserved
 sections were well filled with ladies, including wives and daug of Sem
 ators. There was an unus ua Ily large
 number of new Senators to De sworn in, counting up sevente without the Senator fro n Florda sither the namo
 of Mir. Cali nor that of Mir. Davidson
 being on the printed lit of Senators At noon the vice-President took the chair and the session was opened with prayer by the chaplain, the kev. J. q. Butler.
 The Vice. President welcomed the Senators to the resumption of their official duties and called the Senate to order. He then laid before the Senate the credentials of new Senators and
 the resignations received by him dur ing recess. Those papers were read,
 the first being the resignation of Sena-
 tor Reagan of Texas aud the appoint ment by the Governor of that State of Mir. Chiffon in his stead. The next were those of Mr. Felton of California to i'll the vacancy caused by the death of Mir. Hearst and the next the resigna-s tion of Mir. Edmunds of Vermont and appointment of Proctor in his stead. The next were those of Mir. Call and Mir. Davidson, each claiming to bo Senator from Flor.da.
 After they were both read, Mir. Har- ris expressed the opinion that the proper course to be pursued with them was to refer them both to the committee on privileges and elections, SO that the question might be decided in the light of thorough investigation. He asked that both credentials be laid on the table and said he would probably to- morrow name their reference to tho committee on privileges and electionA This was done.
 The credentials of Senator Brice, Senator elect from Ohio, having been presented and read. Mir. sherman said:
 Before the oath of office is admin istered to. Mir Brice desire to say that large portion of the citizens of Ohio contend that he was not an inhabitant of that State at the time of his election, and was therefore not eligible toa seat in this body. On examining the pre- cedents, (of which there are several in the history of the Government, and
 some of them most importantly am entirely satisfied that Mir. Brice is en- titled to be sworn q on the face of his credentials, which are regular in form simply give this notice, however, % that his being sworn may not be con sidered any waiver, or any misapprc- hension or Inisconstruction, if tho peo- pie of the Legislature of Ohio should assert and prove to the satisfaction of the Senate that Mir. Brice was not at the time of his election an inhabitant of Ohio. think that this statement from me Is proper and necessary. But I make no objection to the swearing in of Mir. Brice.'
 The swearing of the newly elected. or appointed, Senators was then pro ceeded with. They were sworn in in groups of four or five, in the first group being Mir. Brice, who was cs- corted by Mir. Kenna. In the next group were Mir. Chilt on of Texas, Mir.
 Dubois of Idaho, Mir. Felton of Cali fornia, and Mr Gallinger of New Hamp- shire Mir. Hoar said that as to Mir. Chiffon there was question as to whether the Governor of Texas had the
 power to appoint before the vacancy
 actually had occurred He would
 make no objection to the oath being administered to Mir. Chiffon, but he should afterward move to refer the case to the Committee on Privileges
 and Elections.
 The name of Mir. Hill, senator-elect
 from New York, was not printed on the
 lit Q. Senators ner were his ere lem tials presented Thee were only four
 members of the Senate who were not
 in their seats. These were Mir. Jones
 of Arkansas, Mir. Jones of Nevada, Mir.
 Stanford of California, and Mir. Vance
 of North Carolina
 Mir. Hoar submitted a motion that
 Mir. Call be admitted to take oath as Senator from Florida, and said that he
 would not press the motion now. but
 would let it go over till to morrow.
 Mir. Cullom made like motion in ref
 erence to Mir. Dubois
 Mir. Sherman offered the usual rcso-
 lution for the appointment of two
 Senators to join like committee on
 the part of the House to wait upon the
 President and inform him that .
 quorum of each House was assembled,
 and that Congress was ready to receive
 any communication he might be pleased
 to make. The resolution was agreed
 to and Messrs. Sherman and Harris
 were appointed; and then the Senate
 adjourned.