Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-05
CONGRESS ONCE
MORE IN SESSION
CANNON REELECTED SPEAKER
BY REPUBLICANS
Large Number Of Bills Are Presented
in the House-Senate Ad-
journs After a Brief
Meeting

Island. Knox Of Pennsylvania, Warner
of Missouri and Frazier of Tennessee
took the oath of office and an adjourn
ment was taken as a mark Of respeeJ
to the late Senator Platt OF Connecti :
cut.
The preliminary steps to organiza-
tion were taken by The house. Joseph
G.. Cannon of Illinois was re-electeu
speaker; the members Of the mousse
took the oath Of office: the officers and
floor employees of the body were re-
elected; the rules of the last congress
were adopted, and members went
through the formality Of drawing Tor
seats. all of which was erlvened by
the presence of crowds in the galleries.
the animation of the reunion OF vet
eran members and interest in new ones.
In brief speech against the adop-
tion Of the rules the minority leader.
Mr. Williams of Mississippi, touched
on the interest of the country in tariff
legislation and to the new Republican
ideas which were being waited to
Washington on the breezes from
every part of the country" These, he
said, might be properly legislated
should the minority of the majority
stand with the Democratic members IN
opposing the adoption of the old rules
and forming new ones which would per-
popular opinion might dictate.
A committee was appointed to act
with the senate committee in notifying
President Roosevelt that congress was
ready to transact business; the rules
committee and the committee on mile
age were appointed and the house ad :
journed after a session which lasted
three and a half hours, in compliance
with resolutions reporting the death of
IDI ,Nf 111
resentative Marsh of Illinois.
Many Bills Offered
An index to the business of the ses-
sion in the house was the industry of
the members in introducing bills. AS
many as 100 public bills had been
placed in the basket on the clerks
desk before II o'clock, these measures
of legislation affecting the general gov
ernment.
Speaker Cannon arrived at his Of
flee early and for an hour and half
before the session began he held an
enthusiastic reception in his office ad-
joining the hall of the house. Members
of both political parties went to see
him and extend congratulations. Half
an hour before noon there was not an
empty seat in the gallery and long
lines had formed in the corridors.
Exactly at noon Maj. Alexander Nc
Dowell, clerk of the house, called that
body to order, standing in his place di-
rectly in front of the speakers chair.
which was vacant. The fall of the
gavel marked the beginning of the
Fifty-ninth congress.
Declaring the house sin order" he an
nounced prayer by Chaplain Rev. DR..
Henry NJ. Couden. The invocation COM
pretended a review sof the peaceful
and prosperous condition of the ma
tion, plea for patriotic and wise legis-
lation and concluded with repeating the
Lords prayer.
A rollcall by states to show the pres
ence of a quorum was at once begun.
A large number of members were pres
ent, every seat on the Republican side
of the hall being occupied, with but a
few vacant seats on the Democratic
side. Several of the newly elected mem
bers who could not find a seat on the
Republican side contented themselves
with standing in the rear of the hall
on the Republican side, while a num-
Der of veteran Republican members
crossed the aisle and sat with theiI
Democratic colleagues pending the
drawing for permanent places At the
conclusion of the rollcall Clerk Nc
Dowell announced 264 members present,
Il quorum of the Fifty-ninth congress.
Unanimous consent was obtained at
this stage of the proceedings to place
the name of Representative Marshall
of North Dakota on the rolls. Speaker
Cannon was placed in nomination for
speaker by Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa, and
the first applause of the session fol-
lowed.
Mr.. Williams of Mississippi was nom-