The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-24
.F|FTY.F|FTH CONGRESS CONVENES.
EXTRA SESSION.
The Public Galleries Were Packed and 90
Senators Were In Attendance.

There was an abundance OF flowers on the
desks Of senators when at l2 o'clock Monday
Mr.. Hobart called the Senate to order.
There was an exceptionally full attendance
OF senators. The public galleries we're pack
ed and the reserved galleries were filed. The
chaplain's opening prayer invoked divine
grace and blessing on the senators and mem
pers now about to take up the work of the
extraordinary session and on the President
and Vice President.
The roll call disclosed the presence of 6s
senators. The new senator from Kansas, W.
A. Harris. took the oath Of office Mr.. Me-
Bride, Of Oregon, presented the creden-
tials Of Henry W. Corbett. appointed
by the Governor of Ore.on to hll
the vacancy caused by the fai ure TO elect
a successor TO Mr.. Mitchell. The governors
certificate was read, and Mcbride requested
that the new senator be sworn in II there he
no objection. but Mr.. Gray said some unusal
circumstances attended the appointment
and the credentials should be scrutiniged.
He moved the credentials be referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections, and
IL prevailed by unanimous vote.
Mr.. Hoar and Mr.. Cockrell were named a
committee to wait on the President and ir-
form him that Congress was IN session and
ready to receive any communication from
him.
The Senate then at 1920 took recess un-
iii 2 O'Clock
AT twelve O'Clock Monday Maj. Mcdowell.
the clerk OF the House, raped for order.
Rev. Mr.. Couden, OF Michigan. the blind
chaplain of the House, then delivered an in
vocation, appealing to the throne for Gods
blessing on the work Of the new congress
and the new administration. The clerk OF
House then read the proclamation conyen-
ing congress- after which the roll OF mem
bers was called.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed was reelected,
the vote standing; Reed, 1879; Bailey, Demo
crat, Texas ia; Bell, (Populist, Colorado,
2l, and Newlands, (silverite, Nevada), 1.
At 3 o'clock the session was resumed. Mr..
Hoar and Mr.. Crockrell reported that they
had called on the president. Secretary
Pruden Of the White House stan thereupon
stepped forward. message In hand. IL was
sent TO the desk and the reading immedi-
ately began amid the close attention of sena-
tors II took but ten minutes to read the
message, and Immediately thereafter, on
motion Of Mr.. Allison. the senate adjourned.
March l6.-ln the senate to-day 34S bills
and eight joint resolutions were introduced
They embraced nearly every phase Of public
bhsiness. Mr.. Aliens batch of bills num-
bered about seventy-flve. They included
bills directing the foreclosure OF the govern
ment lien on the Union Pacific railraad, TO
prevent professional lobbying; definite the
powers OF the judiciary; for service pensions.
etc. Bills introduced by Mr.. Hale related to
cable between the United States, Hawaii
and Japan. and to the twelfth census. There
was general laugh at one OF the pensien
bills OF Mr.. White of California, "for the re-
lief OF William J. Bryan"
Mr.. Lodges bills included those TO amend
the immigration laws and for Hawaiian
cable. Bankruptcy bills were presented by
Mr.. Nelson Of Minnesota, and Mr.. Lindsay
OF Kentucky.
March IL. The house reassembl at noon
today pursuant to ad iournment, a very large
portion OF the members being present. After
the chaplains prayer and reading of the
journal, Mr.. Henderson Rep, Ia. } stated
! that the committee on ways and means
would not be ready to report until to-mor-
row, therefore he moved that the House ad-
journ until Friday. This was agreed to
without division. and at 1915 the house was
declared adjourned by Speaker Reed.
| In the Senate to-day Mr.. Turpie. Demo-
crat Indiana, again introduced his consti-
ntional amendment providing for the elec
! tion OF United States senators by direct popu-
lar vote. Mr. Gear, Republican, Iowa, re-
| ported from the Pacific Railroads committee
the bill creating the Secretary OF the Treas
ury, the Secretary OF the Interior and the
! Attorney General a commission TO settle the
debts Of the roads to the government. the
/ settlement to be first consented to by the
| President.
March 19.-ln the Senate to-day the petit
tion OF John Edward Addicks, contesting the
! right of Mr.. kenneyt to n seat as Senator from
Delaware, Was presented by Mr.. Burrows,
Republican, Michigan, and referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections. A
communication from the Governor and Sec
etary Of state of Oregon was presented by
Mr. Chandler, Republican, New Hampshire,
and read, setting out facts to show that the
House of Representatives. not having
been regularly organized, there has been
no session of the State Legislature sine,
February, 1895. The object OF the communi
cation, which was referred to the Committed
ON Privileges and Elections, was to prov,
that the Governor had the right Of appoint
| ment OF United States Senator.
Among 200 bills introduced was one by Mr.
Butler, Populist. North Carolina,t to establish
a postal telegraph system. The bills intro
duced to- day increase the number submitted
since the special session opened on Monda,
TO 975.
This was n stormy day In the house. Tn,
Republican leaders before adjournment hat
secured the adoption OF a special order fix
ing the limits OF the tariff debate, and two o
the regular appropriation bills which failed
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