The sun., 1892-12-06

Speaker Crisp's gave raped the House to
order to-day at IL o'clock. Nearly one. third
OF the members were absent, many OF them
Republicans. who as yet have not recovered
from the recent yclone. For an hour before the
fall OF the gavel the scenes In the hail OF the
House were interesting. II not impressive.
The floor was well filed. nearly all the men,
bers in tho city fastening early to the Capitol
to take part In tho annual hnnd-shaking
matinee. The galleries were early full.
too. There was nothing to see. save lot OF
men. supposed to be digniiled. indulgine in
boyish pranks and an orgie Of congratulations
and grabbing OF hands. 1t has become one OF
tho well.settled traditions Of the House TINT
on the first day Of every session every man
who has been reelected must be conCratu-
lated by every other member. The opentng
day was no exception to the rule. Indeed. the
handshaking craze had become 80 pronon1ncfeI
at outstrsiehed hands regardless, Of their
you back. looking we'll
G1p as q 0 m the su
leaders came early and stayed late. and spent
most Of their time talking about what a great great
day the 9Th OF November was. Among those
tional love !east On the Dsmosrate tic side
a little notion OF running for Spsaker against
Crisp: MIR. Springer, who Will be well salts.
ed fs@s at Hsun hd % Tays Sny
ty twenty years.; S fI1D Mr Dockery Of Missouri who
Of Of judge Holman: sayers OF Texas. Who. IN
the closing days OF the last session; SO politely
o n1 s m
:o%s sSsnss q being sscrs|sTS 2, The SsSs
younger than ever and fully able to carry
on at the old stand for another quarter OF y
the people: handsome Mr.. Durborow OF Chi
cago with marvellous majority OF 1000 ut
R M sk FAIR af s Gem %hss.r Of s
Alabama. bustlinE about as usua! with Il, piece
q paper in his nervous hands; Tom ,on J9hnSon
with JOY over tho election OF Cleveland
and his own success in Republican
sS Geoise Faea wams sn sae' %
looking a little thin after his recent
encounter with practical politics. and mourn
Is to be married to-morrow night: the white
haired Breckenridge. walking ur md down
within his reach. and smiling in two direc-
tions at once. and many more little or much
tn. Republicans did not appear to be much
cast down. Their leader. Tom Reed: came ut
II o'clock and settled in his chair and at once
sfSn siways s Trites s istie9s There IS
crowd in tho galleries. They say
write or not. because he is shy and selt. con.
iks S:trsy siaseii H hsid sSS5s despite
sna ssiuts Kim. ana, ana the r. majority M II ths@
late npieasantness Every few minutes
his down. East Gnflaw rang Sut above M the din
on the Capitol that Sir. Koed was not in mourn
ing for Ben Harrison. ;.
was Cabot Lodge. Mr. Lodge. as reputed
s%hor % the Late the FSrfs Zee t Nh es r
the, organ of the Force billites. founded
by HS,sf. Mr. Lodge naa dd hnDs mot want
ferred M not to be noticed at ali. lie would lave
ieit sitter il Mr. Mckinley had been present:
argss hoosoo hsn Menry Catet oase
who. however will soon be Senator and. Of
course. M yer very boil bold again. II, ,,rn,. ,;s ,uo
Grlzzled men took the two hands Of other
Win boufonnisres and begged chews sS'"ot Of
sooa feeling Even tho and na"F Blind
SHAKING He couldn't sec what was going
So that he could gel get his share Of tho hand.
winter. Tie hum Of conversation was prin.
cipally about the election.
Every man who had been reelected had to
tell Just how he M had , beaten the other fellow;
W hd and fallen WAITED
for the Presidential result there wasn't man
on the floor who hadn't seen 1t coming and
predicted It. and could prove lie had done SO if
only old Bill Jones were alive
The New York. Indiana; Illinois. and Wis
Amos Cummings whispered in the ear Of his
friends the political secret that New York has
been taken into full fellowship again" and
Mr.. Durborrow stopped talking about the
Worlds Fair long enough to remark that Hi
nois was Democratic to stay.
Mr. Butler OF Iowa begged people not to ask
him about his state. but. whom close pressed.
said they had been caught at the outward
swing Of the pendulum. but that four years
hence. when other States were catching the
swing at the other end. Iowa would come back
TO the Democratic centre.
Then there were the flowers OF nature. as
well as the flowers OF conversation ana hope.
The hall OF the House was sort of conserva-
tory. Probably twoscore OF the mem bers had
basket to very pretty ship which stood on
Naval Affairs Committee.
There was silence during the half m mute
prayer. but IN another second the uproar WAS
ever did,. Under orders OF the Speaker tho
Clerk called the roll OF members by States.
This won't on for about three.quurters OF an
hour. and when 1t was finished the Clerk said
there were 224 members present.
Eysry one was willing TO take the Clerks
Mr. Holman offered the usual resolution that
the Senate be Informed that the House was
ready for business. No one had any objec-
tion. and II was adopted