The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-04
ASSEMBLED FOR
SHORT SESSION
Both Houses of Congress
Called to Order When
Clock Struck IL.
GREAT CROWDS PRESENT
HUNDREDS UNABLE TO GAIN AO-
MISSION.

Washington, Dee. 3.-The Fifty-ninth
congress began its last session at noon
today 1t took the senate fifteen min
utes TO arrange its preliminaries, and
the house an hour. The senate received
from President Roosevelt a long list of
appointments for its confirmation. and
IN executive session of nineteen minutes
decided, as the nominations had been
received before the body had been or
ganized formally, to make no confirma-
tons until the presidents annual mes
sage had been received and the session
Ialrly started. Senators Penrose of
pennsylvania and Foraker of Ohio
came forward with resolutions of in
Qulry regarding the discharge of the
negro troops of the Twenty-fifth in
fantry. One was addressed to the
president and the other to the secretary
of war. After the ripple of surprise
had passed and Vice President Fair
banks had suggested that it was un-
usual TO transact any business until the
PRESIDENTS message had been received
the resolutions went over by unanimous
consent. Senator Dupont. of Delaware
took the cath of office.
Galleries Crowded.
witnessed by an animated throng which
filled the galleries to their capacity.
Hundreds went away disappointed in
not gaining admission to witness the
session of either senate or house.
Not in years has a larger number of
members-elect of the lower house Of
congress presented themselves at the
speakers desk to take the oath of Of
ice Death has been unusually active
among the membership during the clos
ing days of the last session and the he
ginning of the present. and Chaplain
COuden feelinsly called the attention
OF the body to the work of the grim
reaper during the months since adj
journment.
speaker cannon appointed Represen-
tatiYe JONES r. Mann. of Illinois az a
member Of the board of regents of the
Smithsonian Institution, wise Robert r..
Hit, of Illinois. deceased.
mo Flowers"
The galleries of the house were
crowded at an early hour The absence
OF flowers from the desks of the mem
pers was much commented on. but the
order of the speaker prohibiting the
1ioral display was generally commend
Ell Tor its good sense. A similar rule
was made IN the senate two years ago.
VI .. NNiCifoidS I-OnSWOrtn, daughter
OF the president, occupied a seat in the
executive gallery, accompanied by Miss
Hagner, social secretary of the wife OF
the president.
The routine work of the house incl
dent TO the opening day was quickly
dispatched, the roll call showing near
ly 800 members present
Cockran's Excuse.
Representative Bourke Cochran IF
New York, who recently married Miss
Ide, was the subject of hearty laughter
| when his personal request that he he
permitted to absent himself for an in
definite period on account of business
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 or
ganized and ready to receive anv com
munication he might desire to make of
interest to the public service, the house
adjourned out of respect to the mem
CRY of the deceased members
President RoOsevelts message will he
received both in the house and senate
tomorrow. No bills We're introduced in
the senate. In the house there were
thirty-eight public measures and $50 of
a private character.