The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-07
CONGRESS ASSEMBLIES.
The Usual Display at the Open
ing Of the Two Houses
Today.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. Z, 1sss.-congress
reassembled today under most favored
nation" conditions. with bright sunshine,
a gently bracing air, temperature rum
ming from forty to fifty-ive degrees and
| both halls of assembly renovated and
purified and ventilated in a manner more
nearly conforming to hygienic require
| ments than has ever before been at
tempted.
During the recess the flooring of the
Senate had been torn up and the whole
system of forcing air into the interior
changed. The sides of each desk are now
hollow and connected with the ventila ting
| plant. SO that regulated supply of pro-
perry heated or cooled air without draft
of any sort, enters the chamber through
/ the opening at the bottom of each desk.
In the same manner air is forced in be-
| tween fine wire netting at each terrace
| OF the floor. In the gallery the old benches
! have given way to modern opera seats,
| each ventilated in the same manner.
The several hundred gas jets that for
nerly illumined the chamber through the
false ceiling have been dispensed with,
and in their place incandescent lights will
dsspel the shadows of night. Automatic
thermometers and thermostats have been
skill could do has thus been done to make
the Senate wing of the building as habit
able as possible. The electric lighting has
been carried to the outside grounds.
There was not by any means full at
tendance of Senators when Vice President
Stevenson raped the Senate to order,
! though many of the grizzled veterans were
on hand. Central among them and the
| Ohio's success at the late election, John
Sherman. now entering upon his forty
first year of Congressional service
Among the prominent absentees in the
faf rozac tnr7 Af
however, subsequently put in an appear
ance We're Senators Allison of Iowa. Bate
| Of Tennessee Blackburn of Kentucky
ton, Texas; Clark, wyoming; George, Mis-
slsslppi; Gordon, Georgia; Gray, Delaware;
Hill, New York; Jones, Nevada; Kyle,
South S,a.a. Dakota; Mitchell and Mcbride.
nesota; Palmer, Illinois; Pasco Florida:
Perkins, California; Sewell New Jersey;
Teller, Colorado; Tillman, South Carolina;
Warren, Wyoming; White, California
The House presented a bright and cheer
tui appearance this morning when the
galleries were thrown open to visitors
Inc me old carpets had been replaced and
had been secured until they were as
bright as gold dollar The galleries
were crowded to overlooking long before
Speaker Reed called the House to order
The members of the House. like the
occupants Of the galleries, commenced to
put IN an appearance as early as ten
VcfOchs altHouBn tne nour OF meeting was
tWelEe, The Republicans from the West
and Middle West who secured a renomi-
nation and were not engulfed in the wave
OF free silver1sm which swept over those
coIn1nonWealths, congratulated them
selves and each other upon their good for
tune. 1t was simple matter for a stran-.
ger to sit in the gallery and select the
winners of the Congressional handican nf
1896, The defeated members took their
fl-fortune philosophically Some said
that it was the best thing that could have
happened to them-that it costs much
more than the salary to remain in Con-
gress-and that they would now return
nome and endeavor to amass the COM
potency which II was not possible to Sc
forward to places of preferment under
the new administration which will en-
aoie them to remain in Washington while
others again announced their intention to
spend the next year in foreign travel
There We're expressions of regret that
tne present term will conclude the Con-
gresslonal career Of Judge Daniels of Buff
falo. a quiet and unassuming man at all
times, ne has gained the respect of both
parties by his judicial treatment of the
contested election cases that were con-
sidered last session by his committee.
Chester Long of Kansas, who looks more
IKE prosperous New England merchant
than a Western lawyer was more than
usually conspicuous today by reason of
the fact that he was dereated in the cleo
ton last month by Jerry Simpson, the
Populist member from Medicine Lodge,
whom Mr.. Long defeated two years ago
The only Republican members of the
kansas delegation who weathered the po-
iitical storm were Broderick and Curtis.
the former a prominent member of the
Judiciary Committee.
Dave M Mercer Of Nebraska, the secre-
Committee, one of the two Nebraska
members who secured a reelection was
the recipient OF many cordial congratula-
tons from his Congressional friends.
1tar ~
house, such as McCreery of Kentucky,
who declined a renomination; Payne and
Curtis OF New York. Richardson and Nc
chusetts, and Grosvenor of Ohio. were
also much in evidence and each as he
moved about the chamber received small
ovation from his friends. Richardson
was repeatedly pointed out as the man
VINO VIII be promising candidate for
the Speakershfp when the Democrats re-
gam their control Of the House, and Cen
eral t5rosvenor of Ohio was also an object
OF interest to the galleries, who remem-
bered him as the mathematician last
winter mesr.o Of the lssadsIs Mckinley boomers.
Apsley of Massachusetts, were warmly
complimented for their work during the
campaign in the management of the
Congressional Committee
Dingley, of Maine, quiet and unof,tru-
slVe always, did not come in until late
There are many who believe the Treasury
portfolio wiu be given to MIN by Presi-
stance, together with his popularity. made
MN parsonage of more than ordinary
interest. Livingstone of Georgia, whose
resolutions two years ago in regard 10
the British Guiana boundary question
pointed the way to the present successful
settlement of the Venezuela difficulty:
Hull and Dolliver of Iowa; Dalzeli Of
pennsylvania. one of the leading Repub-
llcan members of the Ways and Means
Committee; Galusha A. Grow of Pennsyl-
yania, sturdy and erect as a Norway pine
dssplte MS seventy-two years; Flynn of
oklahoma, who made gallant fight for
the maintenance of Republican PRINCIPLES
but was defeated; McMiIlin of Tennessee.
one OF the veteran members of the House:
Sayers OF Texas, quiet military looking
man with a gallant record as a Confed-
crate soldier; Sherman. the boyish-looling
member from Utica, now serving his
fourth term in the House-thsse and 9TH
ers We're conspicuous on the floor
The Senate Chamber was gay with bas-
kets Of flowers, the largest and grandest
hedecking the desk of Senator Vest Of
Missouri.
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