The new North-west., 1897-03-19
TOM REED is SPEAKER
ELECTED BY A LARGE MAJORITY
OVER HALEY AND BELL.
speaker Announces the Committees
on Rules, Ways and Means
and Mileage.

Washington, March 15-Interest in tn,
assembling Of the Fifty-ffth congress IL
extra session today. under President Me
k1nley's call, centered in the organtza
| ton OF the new house. Crowds were at
| tracted to the galleries before noon, bu
the general public had small opportunity
to view the proceedings. All the galleries
but one were reserved for ticket holders
| The most striking feature of the scene
on the floor was the number of new faces
Familiar figures conspicuous in the shock
of many parliamentary battles, had dis
appeared, and in the lists were new and
untried knights. The change of the rer-
sonnel was very great. BY IL O'Clock the
reserved galleries except those for the
diplomatic corps and the executive, were
walled in, tier on tier. At u o'clock Ma
Jor Mcdowell, the clerk, raped the house
to order Rev. Couden, the blind chap
lain, delivered an invocation, appealing
new congress and new administration.
The clerk read the presidents proca-
nation, convening congress, after which
the roll was called.
The vote for speaker resulted Reed,
republican, 199; Bailey, democrat, ia;
Bell, populist, 21; and Newlands, silver
ite, /.
OF the fusionists, three, Baker and
Jett of Illinois and Marshall of Ohio,
voted for Bailey; one Maxwell of Ne
braska, voted for Bell; and three, Jones
and Lewis of Washington, and Todd of
Michigan, did not vote. Two of the sill
verites, NeWlands of Nevada, and Shat
roth of Colorado, did not vote, and Hart
man of Montana voted for Newlands.
Speaker Reed was enthusiastically re-
ceived on his appearance in the house
after his election and made a graceful
and drily humorous speech in assuming
the gavel
To ha
Harmer, republican of Pennsylvania, the
oldest member in continuous service, ad-
ministered the oath to the speaker
After the new members had been sworn
in by the speaker, the oath was admin
istered by unanimous consent to Messrs.
Dolliver of Iowa, Bell of Texas and
Pierce and Mcmillan of Tennessee, whose
credentials had not yet arrived.
Mr.. Grosvenor then presented a reso-
luton, which was adopted for the election
of the candidates for the other offices
f the house selected by the republican
caucus, as follows:
Clerk, Alexander Mcdowell, of Penn
sylvania; sergeant-at-arms, Benjamin F.
Russell, of Missouri; door keeper Will
liam J. Glenn, of New York; postmaster
j. c. McElroy, of Ohio; chaplain, Henry
N. Couden.
The usual formal resolution of notif-
cation of sembling was adopted.
offered a resolution for the adoption tenn
of the rules of the last house,
an ineffectual attempt was made under
the leadership of Hepburn, to limit the
operation of the rules of the last con-
gress, which were adopted temporarily,
to 80 days.
The democrats, populists and IA repub-
licans supported him, but they We're de-
feated-1S3 to 1872.
This was the only incident out of the
ordinary connected with the proceedings
today.
The presidents message was applauded
as was Mr. Dingley when he
introduced the new tariff bill
The speaker appointed the republican
members of the old committee on ways
and means, and added Mr.. Bailey of
Texas, Robertson of Louisiana and
Swanson of Virginia to the democratic
In view of the action of
the democratic caucus, Mcmillan, who
was at the head of the minority commit
tee, was superseded by Bailey, although
was left on the committee.
The drawing of seats occasioned the
usual merriment and good humor.
The speaker announced the members of
the committees on rules, ways and means
and mileage as follows:
Rules-The speaker, Henderson of Iowa
and Dalzell of Pennsylvania republicans;
odlley OIL leAaS ana MCMILLAN OF Ienn1S-
see, democrats.
Ways and means-Dingley of Maine,
Paine of New York Dalzel of Pennsyl-
vania, Hopkins of Illinois, Grosvenor of
Ohio, Russell of Connecticut, Dolliver of
Iowa, Steele of Indiana, Johnson OF
North Dakota, Tawney of Minnesota, re-
oublicans; Bailey of Texas, Mcmillan of
Tennessee, Wheeler of Alabama, Nc
Curry Of South Carolina Robertson of
Louisiana, Swanson of Virginia, demo-
crats.
Mileage-Wright of Massachusetts, Bar
nam of California and Booze of Mary
and, republicans; Coover of Texas and |
Lewis Of Georgia, democrats
The ways and means committee then |
asked leave to sit during the sessions of |
he house, after which, at / O'clock the |
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