People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-11
EVERY WORD LISTENED TO.
Intense Interest shown In the Reading of
the Message In the House.

intense interest Shown In the Reading Of
the Message In the House.
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.-By peculiar
combination Of circumstances the COM
munication of the presidents message
was delayed until some time after the
converting of congress. The president
expected to send in the message yes
terday, but the senate after appointing
its committee on notification adjourned
until to-day. When Mr.. Springer,
chairman of the committee on the part
of the house, sought the senate men,
bers of the joint notification committee
he found that some of them had made
engagements which would prevent
their fulfilling their committee func-
tons this forenoon and it was impos-
sible to get full meeting of the COM
mittec before noon.
At exactly II o'clock the joint COM
mittee met on the senate side, and,
after having made the suggestion that
the journals of the two houses be read
as leisurely as possible, in order to
preclude the intervening of other busi-
ness oefcre the reading of the mes
sage, departed in haste for the White
house to notify the president that
congress was organized and ready to
receive any communication he might
desire to make on the state Of the
union.
In the house there was an intense
desire to get the message before that
body as soon as possible, as one of the
rrst things to come before the house
was to be the Belknap- Richardson
contested election case of Michigan,
and two or three hours at least would
be consumed before a final vote could
be taken to determine which of these
gentlemen had the prima iacie right
to occupy his seat pending investiga-
ton by the committee on election.
When the house met the opening
prayer OF the new chaplain was brief:
Thy servants, oh Lord, have come tozether
| In session extraordinary, O session that will
Involve extraordinary duties and the assumS-
ton Of extraordinary blessings from God.
May Il please Thee TO vouchsafe these unto US
ana may there suits of their legislation he felt
far nd vide among all classes Of our people
ana may the annals Of the Fifty-ihird session
oil con ress 90 down 10 the ages to come full
OF assurance that II has contributed very
lar ely TO the peace, TO the plenty and 10 the
prosperity or the nation, who ask, for Christ's
sake Amen
The reading OF the journal of YES
terday was monotonous proceeding
and consumed half an hour.
Then the presidents message not
having arrived, Mr.. 0Ferrall of Vir-
ginia, who has charge of the Belknap-
Richardson contested case, stated that
he believed there was general desire
to hear the presidents message be-
fore entering upon the discussion of
the election case, and he would there
fore move recess until 1a:45. The
motion was unanimously eoncurred in.
When the house convened at l2:45
the presidents message was commun-
ieated TO congress and read b. the
clerk. 1t was listened to with intense
interest during its entire reading and
there was an absolute silence. Gen.
eral James b. Weaver of Iowa, the
late Peoples party candidate for the
presidency, was on the floor by virtue
OF his right as an ex-member and
occupied seat beside Mr.. HAYES
OF Iowa There were a number of
broad smiles on the Republican side
at the presidents allusion to tariff re-
] form as secondary issue just at this