Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-12-09
THO BILE HAS OPENED.
THE sgd CONGRESS CONVENES
INITS LAST SESSION.
Nearly All the Seats occupled I'm Both
ate-The House Was Active.
The Senate Opens.

Promptly at IL o'clock noon on the
first day of the last session of the 52d
Congress Vice-President Morton called
the Senate to order. There was an un-
usually fine floral display, each
Senator's desk being decorated with
flowers of some kind and some designs
were very beautiful. The galleries
were crowded and the Presidents box
was occupied by relatives and friends
of cabinet officials. The attendance of
Senators was large, numbering some
20. Among the absentces were Mr..
Kenna, of West Virginia, still confined
TO his house in Washington; Mr..
! Gibson. of Louisiana, dangerously i'll
at Hot Springs, Ark; Mr.. Colquitt, of
Georgia, who has not yet sufficiently
recovered from his attack of last sum-
mer to come To Washington, and
Messrs. Jones, of Nevada, and Allison,
of Iowa, who are in attendance as
delegates TO the silver convention at
! Brussels. Neither of the New York
| Senators was present. For the first
| time in A years, Mr.. Dennis Murphy,
the official reporter, was absent from
| his desk at the opening of session
his absence being caused by illness.
Chaplain Butler opened the session
/ with prayer, Mr.. Proctor, of Vermont,
| then took the oath of office to fill the
unexpired term of Mr.. Edmunds. The
| House was notified of the Senate's be-
| ing in session and a committee was APP
pointed TO wait upon the President "to
receive any communication he may de-
sire 20 make" A recess until / o'clock
was followed by report by the COM
mittee that the Presidents message
would be ready for transmission the
following day. Adjourned.
The Lower Branch.
| Speaker Crisp was also on time in
the House of Representatives Floral
designs and decorations also abounded
here and the scene was much the same
as in the Senate. The blind chaplain,
Rev. Mr.. Milburn, delivered brief and
impressive prayer. The clerk called
the roll and 224 names were responded
TO. The Senate was informed that the
House was ready TO transact business.
Messrs. Springer, O'Neil and Forney
were appointed committee to join the
! Senate committee TO announce TO the
President that both houses of Congress
were in session and receive any COM
munications. Several credentials were
presented by Representatives elected to
fill vacancies and all qualified. "A bill
was presented and referred to change
the time converting Congress to the
! first Monday in March after the cleo
ton. A bill to open the Worlds Fair
on Sundays was also referred. A pc
tition to give a hearing to John L.
Davenport, supervisor of elections in
New York City, was referred, as was
also bill providing for the issue OF
SIS, 900, 900 bonds redeemable in coin at
the option of the United States after
10 years, the proceeds of the sale are
to be applied to the payment of the
deficiency in the United States treas.
ury. After a recess the committee APP
pointed TO wait upon the President re-
ported that his message would be pre-
scented the next day. AS a mark of re-
spect TO the memory Of Hon. Il. L. Me-
Donald, (deceased) of New Jersey, the
House adjourned.