The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-03
WARMED At WIND UP
NEWS OF SUPREME COURT DE-
CIsIoN GAVE SENATOR'S SOME
THING TO TALK OF.
FROM THE GLOBE BUREAU,

Washington, ID. c.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Dec. 2.-With
the usual spectacular accomplishments of
floral offerings and crowded galleries, the
first session of the Fifty-seventh coll
gress was today begun. The senate, a
continuing body, met and adjourned. a
committee was appointed by caucus to
fill the vacancies on committees caused
by death and defeat. The house of rep
resentatives met and organized. Com
mittees were appointed to wait on the
president and notify him that his mes
sage was awaited. New members were
received, and all the members stood up
and swore to uphold the constitution and
perform the trust imposed upon them TO
the best of their knowledge and abili-
ties.
A flood of new bills was poured in.
They were on a multitude of subjects.
Some were as radical as stump speeches
and as mean as the little paper on which
they are written. They furnish work for
the government printing Office, and will
eventually enrich the waste paper man.
Some bills were put in which will pass,
for instance the anti-butterine bill. This
is first on the calendar.
A long time was spent drawing for
seats There were little balls, one for
each member, and on each a number.
Iney were uIdWn from a DOX Dy Il
folded page, and when the member got
his turn he selected a seat.
Got Solid with GrosvenOr.
Some Of the old boys were unlucky and
lost their nice places up close to the
speaker Grandpa Grosvenor was one of
these, but a kind-hearted new member
gave up his seat when he saw that Gros-
Nenor was to be sent to the rear, and
all applauded. Some day Grosvenor will
let that member make speech or pass
a pension bill to reward his generosity.
= The Hobbies and halls were jammed
with people, men, women and children,
who wanted to get within seeing dis
tance; but there. was not gallery room
for tenth of them In vain they sent
in cards to members asking tickets OF
admission.
AS soon as the preliminaries were over
pages began bringing in flowers, and
they kept on until the place looked like
a green house. There were banks OF
chrysanthemums, American Beauties by
the score, and other flowers and ferns
by the wagon load. Some were for new
members, others for old ones.
The senate had. little or nothing to dc
and it quickly took recess. The mem
bers seized the opportunity to renew old
acquaintances.
Clark Held n Levee.
Senator w. A. Clark, of Montana, cop
per colored as to his hair, and banked
in with copper-colored chrysanthemums
'feld levee to receive congratulations
on his final victorious entry into the sen
ate.
Billy Mason, fat and jolly, had new
grist of funny stories from which the
more proper members fled. Beveridge
was there. pointed out by ladies in gal
leries, and vieing with that new young
colleague, Bailey, of Texas, for the ad-
niration of the fair SEX.
Senator Hanna hobbled about with 6
stick, and hummed the tune of "A WON
an, poor thing is as old as she looks
but man is as old as he feels
All went as merrily as a wedding unit
there came a hot-foot messenger from
the supreme court, saying the Philip
pine case had been decided; that it wa:
necessary to enact tariff for the isl
ands at once; the tariff issue was al
wide open, in spite of the herculea1
efforts of the tariff trust to keep con
gress sewed up in bag. Then there was
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