Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-26

were ironclad to admit only those who.
were entitled to seats. For nm hour be-
fore Clerk Mcdowell called the House to
order the floor was crowded with ~visitors.
The wives and daughters of the members
and especially favored visitors were mss
ell in the aisles and open. spaces. The gen.
eral public had small opportunity to view
the proceedings.
The most striking feature of the. scene
on the floor was the number of new faces.
Old familiar figures. conspicuous in the
shock OF many IL parliamentary battle,
had disappeared. and in the new lists were
new and untricd knights. The change in
the personnel was very great. BY IL
O'Clock the reserved galleries. with the cx-
ception of those for the diplomatic corps
II the executive. We're walled in. tier on
tier. The bright costumes of the ladies',
gave lighter color to the animated scene.
AS the hands of the clock pointed to 10,
Major Mcdowell. the clerk of the House.
raped the House To order. Rev. Mr..
Couden. the blind chaplain. then delivered
the invocation. appealing to the throne for
Gods blessing OH the work of the new
Congress and the new administration. The
clerk of the House then read the Presi-
Tents proclamation converting Congress.
after which the roll was called.
There WAS an abundance of flowers on
the desks of Senators when. promptly at
II o'clock. Nicc-presidcnt Hobart called
the Senate to- order. There WAS an excep-
tionally full Attendance uf Senator's. The
public galleries We're packed and the re-
served galleries We're we'll filed. The
ehaplain's opening prayer invoked divine
grace and blessing on the Senators and
members about to take up the work of the
extraordinary session and ON the Presi-
dent and Nice-Presiient. The ~roll-call
disclosed the piSsclce of siNty-cigilt SEN
ators. Senator tlnar and Senator Cock
rell were nnmed IL committee to wait on
the President and inform him that Con-
gross was III session and ready to receive
any communication from him. The Sen
ate then. at 12:30, took Il recess until =
o'clock.
The House did nothing Tuesday. await
ing the action of the Ways and Mems
Committee on the tariff hill. In the Sen.
ate to-day ABS bills and eight joint reso-
lutions We're introduced. They embraced
nearly every phase of public business.
Mr.. Aliens batch of bills numbered about
seventy-fve. They included bills direct
ing the foreclosure of the government
lien On the Union Pacific road: to prevent
professional lobbying: defining the pow
ers of the judiciary: for service pensions.
etc. Mr.. Lodges bills included those to
amend the immigration laws and for a
Hawaiian cable. Bankruptcy bills were
presented by MIR. Nelson. of Minnesota.
and Mr.. Lindsay. of Kentucky. Mr.. Nor
a reintrOduced the Nicaragua canal bill
before the last Congress. and also u joint
resolution to abrogate the Clayton ulwer
treaty. A resolution by MIR. Frye, of
Maine. calling for information as to the
operation of civil-service rules to river
and harbor work was agreed to after
some criticism of civil-service operations.
Mr.. Frye said it was Il step toward abol-
ishing these rules so far as they related
to common labor on engineering work of
the government. The Senate adjourned
until Iliursday. as did the House.