The age-herald., 1901-12-03

speakers lieutenants: Mir. Littlefeld, the hard hitter from Maine; Mir Hepburn of Iowa and other prominent members be- gan arriving soon after. A number or Senators, including Senator Spooner or Wisconsin drifted in from the Senate side to confer with their colleagues Of the House.
 The unwonted spectacle Of a member | of the Supreme Court in the hall was | also witnessed in the person of Justice | McKenna, himself ar old member Of the | House.
 Hawai's Swarthy Delegate. i MT. Wilcox. the swarthy delegate from Hawaii, and Mir. Deeatau the delegate l from Porto Rico, attracted attention. Every chair except those in the diplo- matic and executive galleries were occu- pied when, at 12 o'clock. MT. Mcdowell, | clerk of the House, brought his gavel down and announced that prayer would l be offered. The Rev. Mir. Couden, the bind chaplain offered prayer. in which he referred to the death of the late Pres ident.
 The roll of members-elect was l then called by states. The clerk an- nounced that SIS members--a quorum-had answered to their names, and MT, Can l nor of Illinois placed in nomination Tor l speaker, General Henderson of Iowa, amid wave of applause from the Re- | publican membership.
 MT. Hay of Virginia, chairman of the l Democratic caucus, to loud Democratic | applause, presented the name Of MT. l Richardson of Tennessee. A general 1 laugh followed as MT. Neville of Ne braska placed In nomination Mir. Stark of his own state. who now is the only other | Populist acting independently. Messrs | Rumple of Iowa, Mcclellan of New York. ] Bates, Republican, of Pennsylvania, and l Maddox, Democrat, of Georgia, were ap- | pointed tellers. The result was: 1 Henderson 190; Richardson 149; Stark 1; | Cummings of New York l.
 Messrs. Richardson, Stark and Cum l mngs were appointed a committee to l escort the speaker to the chair. As Gen l eral Henderson appeared two minutes later on the arm of Mir Richardson, the | spt aker was greeted with great out bur st of applause from both sides of the House. MT Richardson introduced him l in 8 half-dozen words. The speaker ad- | dressed the House briefly, saying Henderson Returns Thanks. | Gentlemen of the House of Represen- tatives: This high honor which you have | conferred upor me | profoundly appre- | | coming as 1t does with this generous ex- pression from both sdes of the chamber l There is yet left another method for a l presiding officer to express his ap2recia- | tion of such an honor; that Is, by a kindly, firm and faithful administration | of the law and the rules that govern this | body. It will be my aim to discharge | impartially the duties of this office. As | I said at the opening of the last Con- gress, no presiding officer can successful l ly administer the duties of his office until l he has the support of the body over | which he presides. I asked for 1t then; l you gave it to me throughout the Con gress. Permit me once more to invoke tfat patience, kindness and splendid sup port which was accorded to me in the | last Congress.
 ''The maker of laws should not be a | breaker of laws. We proceed under law and rules; and the duties devolving upon | each and all of the membership of this | House will be far better conserved if this | principle is kept in mind and acted upon | Again sincerely thanking each and all of you, I am ready to take the pre- scribed oath of office" (Applause.))
 The honor of administering the oath to the Speaker fell to MT. Bingham of Pennsylvania, the oldest member of the house in point of continuous service. 1 The Speaker administered the oath to | the m embers- select.
 MT. Cannon of Illinois then presented the following resolution for the election 1 of officers of the House.:
 Resolved. That Alexander Mcdowell l of Pennsylvania be and is hereby chosen clerk of the House of Representatives: that Henry Casson of Wisconsin be and is hereby chosen sergeant-at-arms; that William Glenn of New York be and Is | hereby chosen doorkeeper and that Joseph McEroy of Ohio be and is hereby chosen postmaster and that H. H. Coudon of Michigan be and is hereby chosen chaplain
 MT. Hay of Virginia, on behalf of the | minority, presented substitute resolu- tion containing the names of the candi- dates selected by the Democratic caucus last Sunday. The minority resolution was voted down and Mir. Cannon's resolu- ton was adopted without division.
 The usual formal resolutions to notify the President and the Senate that the House had elected MT. Henderson as Speaker and MT. McDowell as clerk were adopted.
 To Notify President.
 Mir. Bingham of Pennsylvania then of
 fered a resolutios for the appointment by
 the Speaker of a committee of three to
 join a similar committee of the Senate to | WalL upon the fTcSlucHl anu uotlly nH that a quorum of the two houses had as-
 sembled and that Congress was ready to
 receive any communication he might
 have to make The resolution was adopt
 ed and the Speaker appointed Messrs.
 Payne of New York. Bingham of Penn sylvania and Richardson of Tennessee MT. Dalzell then offered the resolution agreed to by the Republican caucus on Sunday for the adoption of the rules of
 the last House with certain specified amendments as the rules of the present | House.
 MT. Richardson inquired whether op- portunity was to be given to offer amend ments and on receiving a negative reply he protested against such action. He said he desired to offer some amendments which he thought would prevail if the gentleman from Iowa. Hepbran. could deliver the forty votes which the news papers had said he had had in the Repub- lican caucus last Sunday
 Mir. Dalzell said the proceeding was similar to that taken in the last Con | gress. He pointed out that the r,,les were practically identical with those of the Fifty-flrst, Fifty-fourth and suc- ceediug Congresses. and practically iden- tical with those of the intervening Con-