The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-12-06

OF anarchy DrOugnl IOrln applause III
the lower house.
Washington, Dec. 3.-The opening
day of the first session Of the Fifty
seventh congress in the house OF rep
resentatives furnished a spectacle that
delighted the crowded galleries The
machinery of the house is cumbrous,
and is set in motion by labOrious pro-
cess, but the spectators yesterday evil
IDENTIFY did not consider it tedious, as
they chung to their places through the
entire proceedings, which lasted four
and one-half hours, probably half the
time being consumed in the mOnOtOn-
GUS calling of the roll. The organiZa-
ton of the house was accomplished
according to time-honored precedents.
Speaker Henderson was duly reelected
acd sworn in by General Bingham,
1.-THE Father Of the House." and after
| delivering very graceful speech in
recognition of the honor bestowed
upon him he in turn administered the
| oath to the members elect
Rules of the Last House Adopted.
lie USUAL COu1ullLItcS were dppOluL-
ed to inform the president and the SEN
ate that the house was organized and
ready to do business, a committee Of
three, consisting Of Payne, Bingham
and Richardson, was appointed to join
| a similar committee of the senate and
wait upon the president and inform
him that congress was ready to receive
any communication he might have to
| H. A.
adopted after a slight jar, and then
the biennial seat drawing occurred.
This latter ceremony was robbed Of
much of it's interest yesterday by the
| fact that under the new arrangement
of seats there are more than enough to
go round, and those whose, names are
drawn last do not suffer as they did
on former occasions.
Where the "Jar'' Came In.
It was when Dalzell offered a reso-
luton adopting the rules Of the last
house that the "'jar' came. Richard
son wanted the opportunity to amend
which was denied him, and then he
said he desired to offer some amend
ments which he thought would prevail
| if the gentleman from Iowa (Hepburn)
could deliver the forty votes which the
| newspapers had said he had in the Re-
publican caucus last Saturday. Dali
Zell pointed out that the rules We're
practically the same as those in force
during recent Democratic control Of
! the house, and Hepburn added a few
i remarks to the effect that he had tried
to secure modification of the rules in
! the Fifty-third congress. which was
! Democratic, and upon that occasion
Richardson himself had bitterly op-
| posed the change. This sally raised a
! shout of laughter On the Republican
side@
Senate Session Was Brief.
/ The session of the senate was brief.
as it was in the house. There was
real flower show-but in the senate
some of the senators did not try to
reach their seats on account of the
wealth of floral tributes that was in
the way. Frye had the gavel. The
chaplain-as did the house chaplain
made feeling allusion in his prayer
to the death of the late president An
attempt to consider a resolution was
defeated by Hoar, who said such a
thing never had been done until the
president had been informed that con-
gress was in session, which the SEN
ate then proceeded to do. When all
the preliminaries had been performed
the senate heard the formal announce
ment of the death of Senator Kyle, and
l. l. = e.. H.