Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-12-05
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the roll and sixty.eight senator's re.
sponded to their names. The custo.
mary methods Of notifying different
officials Of the house that the senate
was ready for business. appointing .
committee to join with one from the
house to wait on the president and in.
form him that congress was Assem-,
bled were used. Burrows, Of Michigan,
then announced the death Of his col
league, James Mcmillan. He spoke
with great emotion and briefly re.
ferred to the life and services of the
dead senator. Resolutions Of regret
were offered and unanimously adopted
and as further mark of respect the
senate at 1912 p. m. adjourned until
IL o'clock tomorrow
House-Three minutes before the
hour of noon a door In the rear lobby
swung open and Speaker Henderson
entered. He was Immediately sur.
rounded by members and held a re-
ception up the marble steps Of the
rostrum. Exactly at IL o'clock noon
he assembled to his place. A great out.
burst OF applause greeted him as he
faced the house and galleries. With
severed vigorous whacks of the gavel
the speaker stilled the demonstra
ton in his honor. Then followed the
blind chaplain, Rev. Couten, who Of
fered prayer, fervently invoking the
Divine blessing upon the president,
the government, the members of con-
gress and the work of the session.
Roll call showed quorum present
The oath was administered to newly
elected members. Immediately after
the swearing in of these members
Taylor Of Ohio created a furry by Of.
fering resolution to investigate the
election Of Carter Glass in the Sixt$
Virginia district. Referred. A reso-
luton was adopted for the appoint
ment Of committee of three to join
like one from the senate to inform
the president that there was a quorum
present and they were ready for any
communications. The speaker ap.
pointed Bingham Of Pennsylvania,
Hit of Illinol5, and Richardson Of
Tennessee. Bratage then announced
the death of his predecessor, Mr.. Rus.
sell, and presented the usual formal
resolutions of regret. These were
adopted and at 1:56 p. M. as further
mark of respect, the house adjourned
until tomorrow. ....
Washington, Dec. 2.-Senate.-To'
days session Of the senate was espe'
| cially interesting because of the read
ing of the presidents message and the
| swearing in of General Russell A. Al.
ger Of Michigan. former secretary of
! war under President Mckinley, ss sue
cessor to the late Senator Mcmillan.
A number of bills and resolutions were
introduced. following a brief executive
| session. The resignation Of the Rev.
w. H. Milburn, the blind chaplain of
| the senate. was received with genuine
| regret At 1:50 p. m. the senate ad-
| jOurned until tomorrow out of respect
to the memory of the late Charles Rus,
| sell, late representative from Conneo
| ticut
House.-The Louise was in session
an hour and forty minutes today. One
| hour of the time was consumed in
reading the presidents message. The
reading was listened to with attention
by members without regard to party
but without demonstration except at
the conclusion of the reading when the
| republicans applauded generously
The deaths of the late Representatives
| DeGraffenreid and Sheppard Of Texas
which occurred during the recess were
announced and after adopting the Gus.
tomary resolutions of regret the house
adjourned as {. further mark OF respect
to their memories.
Washington, Dec. 3.-Senate.-The
senate today began the real work OF
disposing of the business before it, al
| though the session lasted only an
| hour and half. When an adjourn
ment was taken at 1880 o'clock. out OF
respect to the memory of Representa-,
| tives De Graffenreid and Sheppard of
Texas, the bill to amend the immi gra.
ton laws was under discussion. Early
in the day Nelson, from the committee
| on territories, reported substitute
for we omnibus statehood bill, with
| the recommendation that Oklahoma
and Indian territory be admitted into
| the union as one state under the name
of Oklahoma. When the immigration
bill was brought up Quay precipitated
discussion over the status of the
statehood bill, which was terminated
by a ruling from the chair that begin.
! ming December 10 it would be the I'M
finished business, and that at the clos.
ing hour each day it would be laid be-
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vote of that body.
House.-The house today passed the
bill to appropriate $4,000 to defray
the expenses of the anthracite coal
strike commission and then adjourned
until Friday when the London dock
charge bill will be considered. There
were two hours of discussion on the
commission bill, during which the pres
ident's course in creating the commits.
sion was highly commended, except by
Burton, Missouri democrat, who con.
tended that the commission was
created without authority of law or
constitution. There was some criti-
cism of the feature of the bill allow
ing double salaries to members of the
commission now in government en-
ploy and also because the bill left the
amount of the compensation of the
members to the presto ent. But all
amendments were voted down. The
bill was passed without division.
Washington, Dec. 4.-Senate-Soon
after the senate met Beverage had
read resolutions Of the convention
composed of delegates from Oklaho-
ma and Indian territory favorihg the
admission of both territories as zone
state and opposing the house omnibus
bill. On motion Of Stewart of Neva
da, a concurrent resolution was adopt
ed calling on the president for the
papers in the Plus fund case, recently
decided at The Hague.
At 1890 p. m. on motion Of Mr.
Hoar Of Massachusetts, the senate
went into executive session and short
ly afterwards adjourned until Monday
next. The senate confirmed the nom.
nation of Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes
to be an associate justice of the SUI
preme court of the United States
Hull Offers Notable Bill.
Washington, Dec 3.-Representative