Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-12-07
PEASANTS STARVING CONGRESS- AT WORK
LAST SESSION OF THE PRESENT
BODY OPENS IN PRESENCE
OF MANY VISITORS.

President Sends Long List Of Ap.
pointments to the Senate and Sow.
eraI Resolutions Of Inquiry Are In.
trodueed Regarding the Discharge Of
coIored Soldiers Of tho Twenty.
fifth infantry.
Washington, Dec. THE Fifty.
ninth congress began it's last session
ct noon. It took the senate fifteen
minutes to arrange it's preliminaries
and the house an hour. The senate
received from Resident Roosevelt a
long list of appointments for its con-
firmation, and in an executive session
of nineteen minutes decided that a.
the nominations had been received be-
fore the body had been organized for
, mally to make no combinations until
the presidents annual message had
been received and the session fairly
started.
| Senators Penrose Of Pennsylvania
and Foraker of Ohio came forward
with resolutions Of inquiry regarding
the discharge Of the negro troops Of
the Twenty.fifth infantry. One was
addressed to the president and the 9TH
er to the secretary of war. After the
riDp1o ~ o,,rnriao ho 4 no oood ord Vy}oo
President Fairbanks. had suggested
that it was unusual to transact any
business until the presidents message
had been received, the resolutions
"went over" by unanimous consent.
Senator Dupont of Delaware took the
oath of office.
The opening Of the two houses was
witnessed by an animated throng,
which filled the galleries to their ca
pacity. Hundreds went away disap-
pointed in not gaining admission to
witness the session Of either senate or
house.
Not in years has larger number Of
members-elect Of the lower house of
congress presented themselves at the
speakers desk to take the oath of Of
. fee. Death has been unusually active
among the membership during the
closing days Of the last session and
the beginning of the present and Chap
lain Couden feelingly called the atten-
ton of the body to the work Of the
grim reaper during the months since
adjournment.
Mann Appointed to Succeed Hit.
Speaker Cannon appointed Repre-
sentative James R. Mann of Illinois as
member of the board of regents of
the Smithsonian Institute, vice Robert
R. Hit of Illinois, deceased.
The galleries of the house were
crowded at an early hour. The alb
sence of flowers from the desks of the
members was much commented on,
but the order of the speaker prohibit
ing the floral display was generally
commended for it's good sense. A
similar rule was made in the senate
two years ago.
The routine work of the house Incl
dent to the opening day was quickly
dispatched, the roll call showing near
ly 300 members present.
Representative Bourke Cochran of
New York, who recently married Miss
1de, was the subject of hearty laugh
ter when his personal request that he
be permitted to absent himself for an
indefinite period on account of bust.
ness was laid before the house by the
speaker.
After the appointment Of the usual
committee to wait upon the president
and inform him that the house was
organized and ready to receive any
communication he might desire to
make Of interest to the public service,
; the house adjourned out of respect to
the memory of the deceased members.
No bills were introduced In the SEN
ate. In the house there was 80 public
measures and $50 Of a private charao-
ter.
TWO GC0QE ADJ man