New Ulm review., 1901-12-11
The First Part of the Session Be
gins in Washington at Noon
on Monday.
GREAT THRONG OF SPECTATORS PRESENT


ofthe, first session of the Fifty-seventh
congress at noon yesterday drew to
the capitol great throng of specta-
tors eager to witness the scenes OF
| animation which mark the annual re-
assembling Of the national lawmakers.
Precisely at 12 o'clock Mr.. Frye
| (Me.), president pro tenn of the sem
ate, raped for order. The blind chap
lain, Rev William Milburn, delivered
the invocation.
Credentials were presented of
Charles H. Dietrich and Joseph H. Mil
lard, of Nebraska; Alfred B. Kittridge,
of South Dakota, and Paris Gibson, of
Montana. Mr.. Frye administered to
them the oath of office.
Formal resolutions were offered by
Mr.. Cullom Qll.) that the house be
notified that the senate was ready to
proceed to business; by Mr.. Allison
that the hour of meeting of the SEN
ate be 12 o'clock noon; and by Mr..
Hale (Me) that a committee of two
senator's be named to join a similar
committee of the house to inform the
president that congress was in session
and prepared to receive any message
he might desire to submit.
Recesses were taken until two
O'Clock, but no report Of the organiza-
tion of the house having been received
at that time, Mr.. Gamble Is. d. for
mally announced the death Of Senator
Kyle of that state. He offered the
usual resolution expressive Of the sor-
row of the senate, and after its adop-
ton the senate, as an additional mark
of respect, adjourned until to-day.
Washington, Dec. An the senate
yesterday the presidents message
was read and a committee was
appointed to join a house committee
to decide upon tribute of respect
to the late President Mckinley.
Washington, Dec. Bills were in
troduced in the senate yesterday to
provide for the exclusion and deporta-
ton of alien anarchists; fixing death
penalty for assassination or attempt
ed assassination of the president; for
the establishment of a department of
commerce; to make the census bureau
permanent; to repeal the bankruptcy
law; for the laying of a cable to Ha-
waii and the Philippines; fixing the
salary of the vice president at $4,000,
of the chief justice of the supreme
court at $15,5OO and of associate jus
tees at $4,000; granting free mailing
privileges to Mrs. Mckinley, widow of
the late president: a constitutional
amendment changing the day for the
inauguratio of the president of the
United States from March to the last
| Thursday in April.
Washington, Dec. 6.-Debate upon
anarchy opened in the senate yester-
| day, Senator McComas (Md.) urging
| the need of strong law and Senator
Hoar (Mass.) pointing to the difficult
| ties and suggesting an international
penal colony. Senator Penrose (Pa.)
introduced a bill to prohibit idiots,
Epaupers and persons liable to become
public charge from coming to this
country. A bill was passed extending
the life of the industrial commission
| until February IS next. Adjourned to
Monday.
Washington, Dec. THE senate
| committee on foreign relations yester-
lay voted to report favorably the new
| Hauy-PauncefOte treaty providing for
the construction of an isthmian canal.
In the House.
Washington, Dec 3.-Every chair
| nos oco,1pied xSbpn al ~ O'Clock YES